Dog Sitter (The Backlog!)

Kila continues to grow! She's making it through the night without issue (though she does like an early start to the day).

Her personality has been high energy. She loves to run and be outside!

She doesn't love stairs. Going down freaks her out (along with many other things). Instead of continuing to carry her down, I've been placing her on the bottom step. That's less scary and she hops off without issue, but the second step? Oh my. 

We're getting there.

Kila's not afraid of going up, at all! She'll happily jump to the back of the couch like she thinks she's one of our cats!

I'm trying to push along Kila's ability to go down stairs for when Carrie's out of town. 

That's right, Carrie's ditching us for a week. She's going on a "work" cruise with Grandma to Bermuda.

We don't think Kila is old enough to go the whole day without a break yet, so Carrie reached out to a pet sitter, Kayla. Then she invited the Kayla over to meet Kila.

When Shane realized everyone was outside, he wanted to join the party! He got the dogs running and put on a show.

Talking about your pets to someone scratches a similar itch as talking about your children. 

Side note: In December, Kila is still jumping on Loki's back. Only now he's figured out she's a girl and would love for the positions to be reversed....., but they can't seem to figure it out! Whew!

We're fortunate that our pets get along. Hopkins hates Bunsen, but otherwise anyone can mix with anyone. Max isn't afraid to bull her way between the dogs to get attention.

And she's okay with dog attention so long as the scratches keep coming! You can see that Kila is now bigger than her.

The dogs are happy to sniff and offer their butt cleaning services to any cats on ground level!

Kila's been a welcome addition to the family. She annoys Loki at times, but his perspective on things will change when she's older!