Thursday.....Thursday was a day off. There was a lot of napping in the house. Loki found a sunbeam on the kitchen floor.
Max found her sunbeam on the kitchen table.
And Bucket.....Bucket discovered she likes to hide in our island for hours on end!
She can open the door and crawl in on her own. She'll hang out there and then make me think I'm going insane when I hear the cabinet growl at Loki as he trots by. She can let herself out, too, so......I guess I'm going to have to be careful putting the toaster away from now on.
Speak of Loki, he stunk. I tried not to do much work outside of the normal chores, but he got a bath!
Loki hasn't been feeling the best lately. He's had diarrhea for several days in a row. We tried to switch his food to help, but there was no change. Carrie put him on a fast today to restart his system.
Shane and I went on a couple of walks around the property with him. It entertained us and him!
Loki really, really likes to chase cars. It's both funny and terrifying. I can stand along the front stretch of our property and he will try to zip and keep parallel with any car that drives by. They're always faster, so sometimes he gives himself a head start. He'll start trotting along and as the car catches up he pours on the gas! He sprints his little heart out.
The dangers are obvious. If he were to ever try to go in the road.....
Thankfully, it's unlikely. Loki is afraid of the road and the cars.
When he was younger, I tried to check the mail with him on the leash. He was terrified. He stood next to me tugging and shivering as I waited for a car to go by before stepping up to the road. Then he dug in his heels, slipped the collar, and ran away when the coast was clear! I had to pull him shivering out of the ditch and haven't checked the mail with him since! He has been on the leash as the school bus pulls up and he's shied away from it, too.
So far, the fence line has been a solid boundary. If Loki looks like he's going to duck under the wood fence for any reason I scold him and he turns back.
The cars give him a great workout as he zips back and forth. When we turn the corner, Loki gets to chase Shane onto the horse jumps.
I normally have the leash on Loki whether I hold it or not. It slows him down slightly and gives me a way to catch him in a hurry.
There are downsides to letting him run dragging the leash behind, though...
He curled up and slept beside me on the floor while we watched some Dragon Prince on Netflix.
It was largely a do-nothing day with some food. I didn't want it to be unmemorable, so Shane got his first driving lesson!
He'll get more in the future. Consider it a perk of farm-living.
I'll eventually be able to send him out on errands in the gator, so there's something in it for me, as well!
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