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Flower Faces |
For over thirty years I've shared my home with an assortment of animals who should have been bitter enemies -- cats, dogs, parrots, gerbils, mice, snakes, frogs, and fish. Except for the yellow tabby who went fishing in an aquarium (when he was sure I wasn't watching), and a wily female feline who took the cover off a mouse cage -- after the mice had come to trust her -- all of those critters learned to live in peace. In fact, they seemed to adapt to the house rules automatically, as soon as they became part of the "family." Here are pictures of the latest addition to my household -- Sheba, a young female Lab who was rescued from the Chickasha animal shelter, spent some six months at "Friends With Four Paws," a private local animal rescue organization, and has only lived with us for a few weeks. From the moment she came into the house, the cats trusted and accepted her. She and Mushka -- who was scheduled to be euthanized as a kitten in the Norman animal shelter five years ago -- have become especially close. Here they are at play. I'll add pictures of her with Tigger and Blake if they come in the house long enough to have their portraits taken.
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