Minnie – an incredibly difficult animal to photograph other than on a lap!
Meet Minnie. She is currently a houseguest after flying up from the Cape with Son-in-Law’s mother for the recent sad events.
Of course, as you can imagine, it is a tremendous inconvenience having such a massive animal blundering about the place. (In fact, Mac cat and the other dogs didn’t even notice her arrival for some time, and when they did they responded with a highly excited, ‘Ho, hum … yawn!’ I think little Gemma is rather chuffed not to be the tiniest four-legged resident any longer, though.)
The kids need to be reminded, from time to time, that she is not a toy. They would love to carry her round permanently. She is wonderful, though. Not a yap or a snap in sight.
Her biggest adventure here to date has been when she tried to run across a pondweed-covered fishpond. I waited to see if she could fish herself out 🙂 and she managed on the second try. De-pondweeding her was a mission, though.
Otherwise, apart from weeping in high-pitched yips if her mommy has to go out for any reason, and demanding that I cuddle her full-time until the return, she has been a model guest.
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Once ponded and wet, she must have been almost invisible.
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Cute Mug 🙂 🙂 Q
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She is a natural at Cute!
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Very sweet. I also had the opportunity to look after 2 Yorkie’s for 3 weeks. But boy oh boy they are active little creatures!
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Lovely little doggie.
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Awwww, she is absolutely adorable Col. They are are such sweet and loving dogs. 😀
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Small dogs have suddenly entered our life with little snowy. Although anything would be small compared with Pippa. But really, I am working out they are big dogs, except smaller 😀 smart. cute. intelligent, affectionate and take up far too much of the bed.
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May the pondweed not call to her again. Ha.
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She has learnt to treat flat green surfaces with suspicion!
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Minnie is so sweet and you are so lucky to be selected to care for her.
We have 2 foster dogs coming on Friday making our dog family to 6 plus 3 cats…ain’t life fun when you jump in the deep end
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At one stage we had seven full-time dogs and thirteen full-time cats. We survived. Somehow! 🙂
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My daughter says the first thing she remembers me teaching her is “the cat is not a toy!”
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A valuable lesson!
Of course, some cats are quite capable of doing their own teaching in that regard.
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yep, very much so.
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Sounds like you are rather enjoying those cuddle times Col, what a little cutie 🙂
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A good cute house guest…. wonderful…
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Aw, she looks so sweet and cute. Thanks for the lovely entry Col 🙂
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Wow, a true mini, but yet a mini minor:)
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I’m glad she fished herself out of the fish pond. 😀
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Had she not, I would have, of course. Still, I was glad to find out she can get herself out of such predicaments.
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You sound as if you’ve fallen in love with her, Col. She looks so cute. I would have loved to see her all covered in pondweed. 🙂
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She was really a pathetic little ratlet.
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We have a pug, and it’s the same – the kids forget that she is not a toy. She retreats to my lap when she has had quite enough. My eldest son calls our pug “a human trapped in fur” and “a tennis ball head of cutie-ness” (her head is not much bigger than a tennis ball). My kids love Greek and Roman mythology, so they called her Juno.
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‘Juno, Juno!’
‘Yes, of course I do. Why do you ask?’ 🙂
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She looks utterly adorable. What a sweet house guest 🙂
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Remarkably cute and licky, indeed. She has a lovely nature.
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