Monster (AKA Crelo)

Monster. That is his nickname. He is our kitty, or cat, or more truly our Monster. I miss Monster. He is a crazy little dude, but I miss him none the less. Just look at how cute and innocent he looks (key word looks):



This is more like it:


Glowing crazy looking eyes, looking ready for action, that is him!!! He likes to chase and bite. I know you all think I'm nuts for missing that, but there was never a dull moment with both him and Tobey around!! I wonder what it will be like when they see each other again. I bet they miss sitting in the window together, just look at the view:



And what a view it is!!! Silly animals!!!

Lions and Tigers and Bears...Oh my!!!!

First I have to let you all know that today is Tobey's 7th birthday, so happy birthday doggie!!! This is pretty much how he spent his birthday:
Sleepy dog!!!
He spent the day with our friend Dre, who was nice enough to come and doggie-sit so we could go to the Out of Africa park today. Talk about up close and personal. You get to ride in "bush buses" through the park with some of the animals in free range. We fed a giraffe from the bus, and here he is licking Scooter's hand:


Then we have zebras:



and bears:


And a tiger:


This is the "tiger splash" show that we watched. This white tiger's name is Chalet. The lions and tigers are not trained. There were a few moments when the other handlers had to come running to help.

And this lioness is Kumba. Both Kumba and Chalet are 22 months old. They are young enough to play, but also know how to hunt, so the handlers have to be careful. The male lions are all at least 5 years old, so they do not get human interaction anymore because they are too territorial and predatory.

The toys are to play with the animals ans also to distract them in case they forget that the people in there are "friends", not meals.

Then there is Boom Boom, the 38 year old Rhino. He did not move all day, he just slept, and he snores rather loudly.


Then it was off to the birds. One of them talked a little, but they mostly made a lot of noise.


I have never seen animals so close. There were other animals and more lions and tigers, but I can not put them all on here. It was a very good day. This park is amazing and I would highly recommend going there if you ever find yourself in AZ. It was a beautiful day, about 80 degrees. I brought a sunburn home with me today, of course! But otherwise it was wonderful.

Road trip

So, yesterday we went on a road trip. We went to the Hoover Dam. It is huge and an awesome sight to see.




This is the Arizona side. About half way over it you enter Nevada, so then we decided to go to Las Vegas. Yep, we went to Vegas. It was really kind of disappointing, but we did see some pretty neat stuff. This was the highlight of it for Scooter:



Otherwise we did not get to see a lot because we had Tobey with and you can not carry a dog in Vegas at all, so we just drove through. That was fine though because it wasn't all that we had hoped for. Then we decided what the heck and we went to Laughlin.



This is the Tropicana. We tried to stay at a hotel in Laughlin, and we did get a room, but it was not at all clean and smelled like pee, so we got our money back and left. We got home at about 3:30 this morning. It was a lot of fun and now we can say that we have been to Vegas and Laughlin. We even left with $10 more than we went with. Hopefully we can go back before we come home!!

We also went through a Joshua tree forest. Yep, that's right little brother, there are Joshua trees and boy are they weird.


I am definitely going back to this forest to get more pictures before we come home.

I'm back....

Sorry it has been so long, but someone thought it was fun to hack my blog. I'm back now, so we shall see how it goes now. Things have not changed much since last I blogged, Tobey is doing much better, and we have moved to our new location.



As you can see we have a fenced in yard, and we bought an enclosed trailer. Our new yard is much bigger, and we do not have to pay extra to have the trailer and it fits inside the fence. Tobey enjoys the fenced in yard too, because during the day he can be outside without a chain. Here he is sunbathing:

It's a dog's life!!!

In other news, Scooter has passed with a 99%!! He has now started the Harley only part of class. This means that we are down to 8 months left!