Fussing with Picassa

Canary #1

Canary #2

Rehabing Feral Barn Kittens

WARNING: Dog Nightmares Enclosed

I haunt The Daily Coyote on occasion ... which is something Dooce posted ages ago ... the fact that I come back on occasion is proof of my love because I never come back to a site--well, hardly ever-- because I'm usually too busy with the three necessities: Dooce, Postsecret, and Facebookstalking. But Daily Coyote is this catalog of pictures and stories from a woman who lives in rural Wyoming who adopted an orphaned baby coyote at 10 days old ... it is majorly a cuteness overload kind of guilty pleasure.

This morning I was killing time before I decided to go for my run and on this page of the Daily Coyote, I found an audio file of the author howling to make Charlie the Coyote howl ...

I clicked on it, shamelessly. Thoughtless of the consequences of playing coyote noises in a house with a Britney/Velociraptor cross that has been on the ranch enough to know that sound EXACTLY PRECISELY.

She was too busy watching our new kitten (tell you next post) to notice for the first bit where they're just sort of warming up ... But near the middle, as Charlie really starts to get into it, her head shot up. She left her kitten post and ran directly up to the computer's speakers and pointed with one paw, trembling. She cocked her head this way and that way and the look on her face was VERY CLEARLY just broadcasting, "I HEAR EVIL AND IT IS HERE". When the recording ended (it was only like 30 seconds long) she started running around the house whining ..... with me calling after her, "It's okay, baby, baby, it'll be all right honey ..." you know, how I do.