The Daddy gave me an account on the weblog. That means that I can post stuff I want to put in the on-line family diary.
The Mama took a picture of me and bear getting snacks from the Daddy. When I stand on my back legs, I’m as tall as bear! The snacks are good too.
Click on us to make us big.
Hi, this is Bear. The hoomins took all their dogs to the dog park. It was fun. We all like to run around without our leashes and smelling all the smells. We had the park all to ourselves with the Mama and the Daddy. This is me on the top of the dog ramp. Click to make me big.
We stopped at the Humane Society car wash event today to get the desert dust rinsed off of the old truck. It was for a good cause since donations went to the benefit of the Humane Society of Wickenburg (NO relation to HSUS the commie anti gun idiots). Click the image to enlarge.
On an impulse, after seeing an item in the local newspaper that featured a “Pet of the Week” item, we went to the Humane Society of Wickenburg (NOT affiliated with HSUS) and adopted Beethoven, another Miniature Pinscher. Now, Cabela has a new little brother.
Beethoven (AKA Bay Bay) is a little underweight and has been through several adoptions that did not work out, but we have had him here all day and think that he will be just fine with us and our other two dogs. He is about eighteen months old and at this time, he is on my lap enjoying a nap and back rub.
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We have seen several types of wildlife in our yard since moving to Arizona. We see quail, jackrabbits, cottontails, lizards and squirrels almost every day. Less frequently, however, we see javelina, coyotes and one time spotted a mule deer bounding across the back of the lot.
Image – Javelina browsing in the wash behind the house. Click to enlarge.
I snapped this photo of a single javelina visiting our back wash area at about 7:30 this morning. I previously posted about javelina in our area titled “Living with Javelina“.
The Palo Verde tree on the road in front of our house has a verdin nest; it has been there for over a year. Now, it seems, there is one of the tiny birds roosting in it. According to the Stokes Field Guide to Birds, the male verdin builds several nests and the female chooses only one to roost. I’m glad that she chose this one. I like that idea; the male builds several nests for the female. 😀
The image above is the opening on the nest taken with the flash to illuminate the inside. I don’t see eggs or chicks but that doesn’t mean their are none. The upper left inset image is the spherical nest taken from the road under the tree. At the lower right is an image of our verdin that I took in June of last year in this very tree. Click on the image to enlarge.
