For a couple of weeks now, at times, we hear strange dog-like noises coming from beyond our backyard. For those of you that have never seen our backyard, it is pretty big with a lot of trees; the land behind the fence is all wooded with no houses at all. Well, the noise would get really loud if an emergency vehicle would go by with the sirens going. It almost sounded like someone was running a puppy mill or something back there, a lot of howling and yipping but only at certain times, completely silent all the rest. Interestingly enough we got an email from the H.O.A. telling us that people have noticed a pack of coyotes in the area, and that we should all be careful of small animals...like ours...and making sure we do not leave them out by themselves...like we do...because they are known to kill..........We tend to just open the door late at night and let the dogs go out by themselves to go potty the last time before we go to bed...now I feel like a jerk! What if one of my little poopsies was out there peeing on a tree and was shanked by a pack of wild coyote thugs!?!?! A new law has been put into affect in this household that requires a chaperone to accompany any creature of small size that is going outside to use the restroom. We have a new war on our hands and can't afford let the young ones get attacked with their pants down.
We leave tomorrow for Tennessee, and the birth of a new baby. It is going to be an exciting trip full of baby, food, and family! This will be the first time that I will be there for a baby birth; with my nephew, I flew down while she was going into labor and with 'The Kid' we made is after also. It shall be an interesting time to see how this whole process plays out. I imagine waiting a lot in an uncomfortable chair. I am a little nervous though about being there with Cat being so close to a baby coming out of her...I will likely not touch her as I will be afraid that I will pop her and if I get birthing fluid on me...I would die. I know that will probably not happen, but one can never be too careful! I am very excited to see everyone though, apparently premium feed has been prepared for many meals and I will be packing the fudge that I made to bring with us! Today is the day for packing and getting everything ready for tomorrow, this includes sucking a huge amount of power from the walls as we charge all of our electronic devices and gadgets. The pups are going to Pet Paradise, so
we I will get their lunches together for every day they are there and give them baths so that way they don't get made fun of by their friends in paradise. Scooter even got a new tag to show how cool he is - hopefully this will raise he street cred. At any rate, I am very excited to be off from work and to not have to worry about classes for a while! Hopefully when we come home, we will not have a turf war on our hands with these roaming gangs of coyotes. Maybe I should spray paint some gang signs on our fence to let them know this is a rival gang...I am pretty good at doing the whole 'west coast' thing with my fingers...maybe I am looking into this whole situation too much......
