Full House

Team Smith has three new additions to the team. As we love diversity, they come in all shapes, sizes, and colors. To start off the lineup, we are now the foster parents of a German Shephard, Sheba, while her owner is in Australia for home leave for the next five months. She has shocked us with how quiet she is. We are used to a dog that is always making noise even in her sleep or especially in her sleep. She also does not get excited about squeaky toys. The only thing that seems to be consistent between her and Star is that Eric is one giant lollipop.

This past weekend (this was written over a month ago in hopes of having photos attached & it is finally possible) we also took in two kittens. Their owners will soon be leaving the country, and we have a mouse/rat problem so we thought that our home might be a good fit for them. They are extremely playful and get into everything.

The female is ginger and white and extremely intelligent and curious. She can get into anything. Believe it or not, she has actually opened a door on three different occasions. The doors here have handles for door knobs, and she somehow has figured out how to scale up the door and use the knob. I didn't believe it the first couple of times but this last time I know that the door was really closed. We are wondering what she will be like when she has grown. She also stalked and killed a large praying mantis this past week. We are just hoping that if she likes praying mantis that she will also like cockroaches.

The boy is white with some black markings. He was pretty wild when we adopted him, but he seems to be calming down. He isn't as cuddly or curious as the female but still can get into his share of trouble.

Our team is somewhat divided now as the kittens and Sheba don't particularly demonstrate teamwork. We are hoping that in time they will realize that we can accomplish more by working together.