Happy New Year!

Wow - the fall flew past and we are already in January. The Cairns have stayed busy with long walks, play groups, Flyball & Agility classes. They were happy to have Shelby back home with them for a couple months.

Things got real interesting when Shelby decided to get a couple cats to take with her to her new apartment in Baltimore. When she first brought them to the house the Cairns were WAY too excited and curious and we had to keep the cats upstairs and the dogs down for a few days while they both got accustomed to having the other species in the house. Tamber fairly quickly learned to observe the cats calmly from a distance and slowly move closer as the cats learned to accept her. She finally got to a fairly comfortable sniffing /curious relationship with the cats. Colin, being the no holds bared, charge straight in type soon learned to keep his distance after being swatted several times for his impertinence. (neither the cats nor the dogs ever realized that there was no real danger in the swat of the recently declawed cats) Just when the dogs and cats were getting to the point of a respectful understanding of each other, the cats have moved out and we're back to just 2 Cairns in the house.

Christmas Card pose:

Tamber & Colin watch the cat in the bag (look closely for the cat):



Tamber and the cats have a stare down contest: