My pups is the biggest scaredy cat; she’s scared of the vacuum cleaner, thunder, other dogs, and she’s scared of the cold. In winter you’ll often find her snoozing next to the heater, lounging in spots of sunlight or snoring under the doona (which is very annoying!).

To keep her nice and toasty this winter I got her a new jumper which came with a bonus “pet parent scarf”. I’m either going to be the coolest kid on the block or the biggest dork. I’m thinking it’s the later.

Esta’s recently moved in with some of her mates in Byron and the house is filled with dogs. The house holds 4 people and 4 dogs. As crazy as it is with 4 dogs, it’s a heck of a lot of fun, especially when there’s always such happy faces to greet you.

Just like me, the dogs love the beach. I was able to capture this fleeting moment of stillness before we unleashed the craziness of sand, waves, water, various treasures along the beach and a lot of “Sunshine / Dooby NO! Come here!”

Sunshine the doggy pinup?

Seriously, who can say no to these puppy dog eyes?

After 10 days of house-sitting / cat-sitting I sure am glad to be heading home tonight. I miss my cat-hair-free house, my desk, my little doggie and of course my bed.

Rex (pictured above) definitely misses his mum. The poor baby. Every day when I walked in the door he’d look so disappointed, hoping it would be his mum but then seeing me. Don’t worry Rex, your mum is home tonight. Hooray!

I’m house-sitting / cat-sitting for my cousin this week and while it’s fun having the place to yourself, it’s also quite stressful. Rex (pictured above) is the only real stress factor.

The first time I looked after him he fell out the window from a two-story apartment. The next time I looked after him I nearly cooked him when I left the central heating on all day. Wasn’t my fault, the heater had a stupid off button that didn’t always work. Anyway, there are plenty more stories but I won’t bore you.

The thing that’s most fascinating about Rex is his personality. If you’ve met Rex you’ll know that he’s not the friendliest cat in the world and is often seen as a snob. If you get too close he’ll run away from you or duck so you can’t pat him. BUT when you get him on your own (with no other people or pets around) he’s actually quite affectionate. He’ll sit there purring while I pat him but as soon as Rocky (the other cat) walks into the room, Rex bolts and acts all like “yeah, whatever”. Cats are so strange.

She usually goes under the bed when there’s a thunderstorm or when I’m trying to get her to do some exercise by chasing her around the house. It’s actually quite funny watching her run from one room to the next, sometimes her paws lose grip when she’s trying to turn corners on the tiles and she goes sliding across the floor. She’s quite a smart little girl, if she doesn’t want to play she knows the only place I can’t chase her is when she’s under the bed.

Here she is after about 5 minute of running around the house. She doesn’t look too impressed that I found her.

Along with the fish my little pup (well she’s not really a pup anymore, she’s 11 years old now) Sammi was feeling the cold too. When I came home the yesterday she was on the fleece blanket all curled up in a little ball, the poor little baby was so cold.

Here she is in this years winter jacket. I love that it has a hood with faux fur trimming, kind of makes her look like an Eskimo. Next time I take her out, I’ll have to make sure we’re not wearing matching jackets.

Guinea is quite fascinating. Not only is he small, fluffy and likes to hide, he makes these little “squeaking” noises – like those “squeaking” soft toys you give dogs and babies. We occasionally tried to squeeze him to see if he was a squeaky toy.

Whilst at my friends place we started to was the version of Wolverine that was leaked on to the internet. It was really funny actually because some scenes hadn’t been digitally retouched so you could see the harness and strings attached to the actors as the fly like mutants. Other scenes didn’t have the correct filters or special effects applied which was pretty neat because you got to see things like the aircraft in its raw modelling state. About 30 minutes into the movie we all decided to bail, most of us were pretty tired. And watching Wolverine like that was kind of wrecking it. Though I think it would be neat to watch this version after watching it properly in full wide-screen screen surround sound awesomeness at the cinemas.