Animal Summer Funtimes

Summer is a good time for reading outside, going to BBQ's and sweating a lot. Because I never like to spend more than 5 hours out of range of an animal, there must  cbereative solutions developed to ensure that they can join in on summer funtimes.

A well known fact is that I own a cat gazebo. Another well known fact is that Nuni (age/sex/race?3/female/calico) hates Beatrix (8 months/female/stately grey tuxedo). To kick off the summer and to celebrate her third birthday, Nuni was given the pleasure of spending some alone time in her cat gazebo as I read in the sun.

 

 This is the greatest gift she could have ever received. A few days later, when Adam and I chose to dine outside, we decided to give Nuni the opposite gift. Which went Just OK. 

 

Yes, this is Beatrix leaping full throttle at the netting.

First, Beatrix didn't understand that this was fun and instead meowed for 40 minutes. Second, Nuni was perturbed that Beatrix was now stepping on the toes of her outdoor toys as well as her indoor toys and decided to supervise and meow for 40 minutes at the window.

Seriously. Look at that.

Thankfully, rather than murder each other once they were put back under the same roof, they turned into soupy pancakes because of the heat

 

Next destination: BBQ in Connecticut. But how will we transport our new, timid, puppy sister-in-law? Well...

A puppy car seat, obvs.

Sometimes I travel with animals and other times I travel for animals. For good measure, I will display hilarious looking animals that reside at the Roger Williams Park Zoo in Rhode Island.

Chickens are always hilarious

For realsies doing the one-foot thing

Just a porcupine snoot

Fun fact: Look how small camel poop is!

Our national bird sitting majestically in a bush with it's mouth wide open saying nothing (political commentary or...the literal truth?)

 

180 degree neck action