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There’s more than one way to skin a cat

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Excuse you.  You might like to rephrase yourself.
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My apologies Donut.

Everyone save yourselves!  She’s going to start skinning cats!
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Should I be concerned?  Am I a cat?
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No, but you eat enough cat shit out of the litter box that you might soon become one.  I swear, every time he gets over one bad habit, and I think he is finally settling down, he develops a new one.  For months and months I babygated the bathroom where the cat litter lives until the entire house of dogs forgot a cat box even existed.  So I stopped with the babygate, and Dexter started sneaking in there for tissues out of the trash, which was only a hop, skip and a jump to nuzzling the litter pan.  Disgusting dog.

And speaking of ‘sneaky’ I must share with you all a funny Tweed story.  There are no photos to accompany it, because I wasn’t even supposed to see it myself.  One of the cats knocked a box of sugar cubes off the pantry shelf in her quest to reach the Temptations™ cat treats (hence the skinning threat).  I guess I missed a cube when I cleaned it up, because a few hours later Tweed discovered the tasty sugar square on the floor.  After peering around to make sure I wasn’t watching (although I was) he delicately scooped up the cube and began nonchalantly tiptoeing around the house looking for somewhere to consume said cube. Having had some experience with sugar cubes before, Tweed knows they are crunchy and make tell-tale noises when chewed up, so he really desperately needed somewhere to go where I would not hear him.  This is difficult to accomplish in a one level, two room, open plan house.  It took him so long to find somewhere safe that the sugar cube, of course, dissolved in his mouth.  This caused him no end of consternation.  He retraced his steps from finish to start, and when he couldn’t find the “missing” cube, he decided someone must have stolen it, so he walked over and gave Dexter Mad Teeth™.  That’s about the point where I started to laugh and laugh.

I love dogs.

Anyway, today is my birthday, which means it is ALSO the (made up) birthday of Piper, Tricky Woo and by default, TWooie too.

Woo: “I don’t want to share my birthday.”

TWoo: “What’s a birthday?”

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Of course it’s freezing cold and pissing rain outside, so a celebratory birthday walk is not on today’s agenda.  Instead we had celebratory indoor shitty rawhide rolls for everyone.

Better than mystery cubes.
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WHICH YOU’D BETTER NOT STEAL, DEXTER!
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Can I steal it?  Can I? Can I?  Huh?
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ZOMG!  It’s my 8th birthday!  Stop throwing my present around!
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I dunno … it’s okay, I GUESS.  I’ve had better birthdays.
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You really have to work at it to excite Wootie.
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Everything excites Dexter.
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And Tweed’s too full of rawhide rolls to get excited.
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I still don’t understand what a birthday is.  *sigh*
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Happy birthday to my three wee beasties!  Here’s to many more years together :)

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  6. Happy Birthday to you, Miss Sheena, The Food Lady! Same goes to the birthday doggies too. And that’s a really funny Tweed story. :)

  7. My BC Megan (of Blessed Memory) got yelled at so much for getting into the cat food that she would suck the crunchies up noiselessly into her mouth like a vacuum cleaner and then sneak away (a la Tweed) to crunch in private. It amused me so much I could never bring myself to scold her when I saw this out of the corner of my eye.
    Happy and many more birthdays to the Food Lady, the WooTwoo and the every lovely Piper.

  8. Happy birthday to you and to your critters! Long life and good health to you all!

    ::raises glass, drinks to your health::

  10. Happy Birthday! There’s snow on Burnaby Mountain. Just sayin’. If you want to snowshoe…

  12. HAPPY BIRTHDAY Food Lady and doggies! Heres to another healthy and happy year. Your story about Tweed had me cracking up. Hes a funny lil guy. Also, Congratulations to Dexter :)

  14. Happy B-day again Sheena and to all the puppers.

    Donut! Big head – little paws – I love it!!

    I so love Tweed. I’d have probably given him another cube lol.

    That last picture of Twooie just melts my heart. Is this HIS blue blankie/towel?

  16. Happy B-day to everyone! Tweed is a goof. But an adorable goof. I also think you should give him another sugar cube ;c) That is one of the funniest things I’ve read — esp. when he made snarly mad teeth at Dexter! LOL I can’t recall ever seeing Tweed making mad teeth … pics plz.

  19. Happy Birthday – although we are the one’s who received the gift of your writing and photographs! As usual I am in awe and astonishment over your creativity and talent. Miriam

  20. Happy Birthday, Food Lady and friends – wishing you all many returns of the day. Your story of Tweed and the sugar cube reminded me of the story of Rascal, the raccoon, who used to wash sugar cubes – much to his consternation as the more he washed the more they disappeared. Poor Tweed. I think I would have “seeded” his search for his sugar cube with another one. Love the pictures of Woo and Twooie.

  22. Happy Birthday to all at casa de Food Lady!
    Twooie, stick with the Food Lady – she’ll teach you what a birthday is, and why it is so wonderful to be loved!

  23. Happy Birthday to Food Lady and her lucky doggies!!

    LOL, just had the little kid version of the song run through my head… “happy birthday to you, you live in a zoo…” Of course, I’m sure no one smells like a monkey!

    (Dexter. Cat shit is not a snack. Seriously.)

  28. As always, there are too many superb and LOL shots to comment upon, but the first one of Angry Donut is exceptional. If you don’t want to rephrase yourself, she’ll be happy to rephrase yourself for you. And of course,

    Happy birthday Woo Twoo; happy birthday Woo Twoo,
    Happy birthday, happy birthday,
    And happy birthday to you, too!

  29. Happy Birthday, Sheena!!
    Hope the dogs got you something good.

    (Dex is all “I gots her a tunnel!”)

  30. Heh Food Lady, you totally ROCK!!!! so we (me & me dawg) are sending you and the b-day *4-paws* HUUUUUGE greetings from the Pacific Northwest. Don’t EVER stop whut yer doing or my life will fall apart due to lack of humor. Thank you.

  31. Oh, my goodness, I am still wiping away giggly tears after reading the Tweed story. And The Boyfriend and I are both amazed and amused at the foreshortened Donut picture at the beginning of the post: biiiiig face, itty bitty feet!

  32. Nuthin’ better than sharing a birthday with your dogs.

    Thanks for sharing with us. That is one kyoot! picture of Twooie at the end there.

  33. AH YES November in British Columbia.
    Many more great indoor birthdays with your wonderful family and thank you so much for sharing your fabulous photos and making us laugh.

  46. Happy birthday Food Lady, Piper, Twooie and Woo!

    We ourselves don’t know the birthdays of Jack and Fly, so we say that their birthday is on new years day. Keeps things simple!

    Have a wonderful day!

  50. That Tweed story was hilarious!

    My dogs will sneak away to eat really good items (sometimes even after I’ve given it to them), which I thought reflected badly on my training. You know, they say if you take stuff away from your dog they won’t hide goodies from you, but if you always ‘trade’ then they’ll bring stuff right to you? I call BS. My dogs know when they’ve got something good, and they slink away to enjoy it!

    If you don’t mind, what sort of flash are you using to light those indoor shots? Because they look really good, and my flash always looks really harsh and produces hard shadows in the background. I’m just learning!

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