nlbarber

Weekend before last was sunny and warm, and spring fever infected Fish. In the space of 3 hours, he settled in on the dining room table (forbidden surface); let himself out of the garage door while I was going in and out of the patio door working in the yard (he's not allowed outside unescorted, and usually on a harness and leash as he has no learned behaviors for dealing with cars, dogs, etc.--to be fair, after letting himself out, he came into the fenced back yard and then let himself be recaptured with no fuss); jumped repeatedly upon the kitchen counter (another forbidden surface) in an attempt to catch a horsefly that must have flown during the previous stunt; ate said horsefly in one bite when I knocked it down with a fly-swatter; and pulled down the curtains from a bedroom window.

Fish has also revived his old fun of dunking a small stuffed toy into water (usually a water dish, but he has used the toilet upon occasion) and then hauling the sodden result around the house. He usually leaves it on the hardwood floor somewhere, or else somewhere I can accidentally step on it barefoot.