Straydog UPDATE posted MONDAY 4/28/03 at ~10:30 p.m. CT

Pat's Daily Dog Log

MONDAY APRIL 28 2003

Nothing much out of the ordinary happened today

      We've been just super busy all day going through our normal schedule.

Blind Chubs and Cassie and the nearly blind and deaf Aussie twins get to know each other better thru their common fence

      Cassie is especially interested in the Aussie pups, and both Aussie pups are extremely interested in Cassie and Chubs, so we took down a section of the boards that kept them from interacting thru their common fence.

Jack and Jill sniff their neighbor, Cassie, after we took the board down that had previously blocked their interaction.

Further evidence that Jack probably sees nothing: Jack's standing with his nose opposite a hole in the chain-link fence picking up Cassie's scent, but his eyes are above the shade board. If he could see, he would most likely lower his head to look under the board. Jill is looking at Cassie with her at least somewhat functioning right eye.

Later in the day we took Chubs and Cassie and the two nearly blind Aussie pups to the park again to see if they might be able to play together

      Because the foursome seem so interested in each other thru the fence, we tried them all together again thinking big, gentle Cassie would have calmed down a little in her playfulness with the smaller Aussie pups, but she is still too excited to have the little fur balls running all around her, and she gets too playfully rough with them. So, we will wait till the Aussies are a little bigger, which they will be in a week or two. (No photos of this event.)

Bill did get photos of Rosie and her pups in the play yard again: