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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 now lived with us since August 2003. 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, however, she and Tigger (another ex stray who has lived with us for seven years) are enjoying a spring morning in the yard. Blake, a reformed alley cat, is watching disdainfully from the distance.
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