Three days till we can move into our apartment! I’m so excited to have that social aspect in my life again. Don’t get me wrong, I love living out in the country but with gas prices limiting the amount of time I can go into town and see my friend, I feel somewhat exiled. It’ll be fun for Atlas too. We are moving into the same complex as our Godpuppy, so he’ll be able to play a lot more. There are more dogs in town that I’ll let Atlas play with than out in Hibbard. There is one dog out here that I’ll set up play dates with and even then every time Atlas comes home from playing with Jack (an enormous black lab) Atlas is hurt somehow. The other dogs out here are very untrained, too small, too old, or too grumpy for Atlas to play with. It is so surprising to see what Atlas learns from each dog he encounters. Jack has taught him how to play fight like an adult dog instead of a puppy. Travis (a small mix breed that doesn’t realize that he is so small that Atlas could fit Travis’s whole head into his mouth and still have room to spear.) has taught his to be more agile. Atlas could run very fast but only in a straight line. If the thing he was chasing turned a sharp corner it would take Atlas almost a minute to turn around. Playing with Travis is almost like a corners boot camp and Atlas is getting a lot better. Then with Cash (our Godpuppy, a little five month old black lab) Atlas has learned that water isn’t bad all of the time. Now it’s only when I’m trying to give him a bath does he hate it.
As we are getting ready to move out of my parent’s house I’ve been trying very hard to get the yard into shape. It doesn’t help that only one set of sprinklers works like it should or that Atlas like to lounge in and all over the flower beds as I weed them; but whatever, the key is that I’m trying to fix everything up. As I was weeding the other day a random kitten appeared through the flowers. I figured it was homeless due to state of its coat and how completely starved it looked. So I named it Momo right then and took it into the garage to feed it. When it was finished it came back out to snuggle. Atlas and Cash had been playing in the field when Momo showed up and now saw him for the first time. Both dogs ran up to this small kitten and started sniffing and licking it all over. The kitten didn’t react like I expected it to. Momo just sat there and took it. He even seemed to be enjoying the attention! Any cat that can handle itself with a puppy Great Dane and a puppy lab at the same time is worth keeping! I text Andrew a picture of Momo and informed him that we were keeping it. Sadly our neighbor girls don’t seem to like Momo. They were outside yesterday and Momo wandered over to see what was going on. A while later I saw them trying to throw the kitten into a tree. I rescued Momo and took him back to the garage so he could eat lunch. That evening I heard the girls screaming outside. I went out and they were holding Momo in their sprinkler! Oh my gosh! Crazy children! I Grabbed Momo and got after the girls. Wow, I was upset. I took Momo back into the garage and tried to dry him off. I think the only way to stop them from abusing this poor kitten is to talk to their mother about it. I’m so glad I have a dog and a cat instead of a child right now.
