When we last left the yellow alien, it was doing God-knows-what where while I was watching my driveway turn into a sheet of ice. Several hours later, it appeared in kitchen near the table, about 5′ from its previous location. At this point you might be tempted to think, “Um, OK. Bad weather, can’t go anywhere. Old bat living alone. Probably got into the cooking sherry.” Although I might have if I’d had some,all I have in the house are two half bottles of wine vinegar (one white, one red) and several bottles of Bach flower remedies that I believe might use brandy as a preservative. However, things are not so bad that I would drink any of these.
So the alien was gone, then it came back, but then once again it disappeared. After I went to bed, I did hear an alien squeak, but did not turn on the light to see what alien that might be. Instead, I was so tired I convinced myself that Fric had either picked up or stepped on the purple one that’s still on the floor. This morning, the alien yellow is back downstairs again. No evidence of the stove glove. Damn.
Meanwhile, the puppies are starting to play with each other as well as the toys I’ve put in the pen. The chocolate one is the most active as well as fairly vocal. He’s also very smart. (He and the maskless brindle share the Noisiest Puppy award.) As I write this, the brindle hulkers are sleeping on a rug outside the crate, one right side up and and one upside down. The chocolate one went over and practiced grabbing the upside down one by the muzzle to signal dominance, something he’d never get away with if his brother were awake. The males tend to hang together whereas smaller Coriander is much quieter and is not adverse to sleeping by herself in the crate. Once she realized the males were asleep, she staggered out and checked them out and then the toy (see below) and then the grounds for a bit before going back into the crate again. Then she came back out again and fell asleep on top of the male-pile.
Fric is doing with this litter what she did with the last, which is to nurse in shifts, getting the bigger pups filled up and then, after they go to sleep, going back into the pen to nurse the other two. If the chocolate male nurses with the other two, she’ll just nurse Cori. It will be interesting to see if she weans them at different times, too.
