Puzzling

We worked a little more on our mystery puzzle tonight. Lila 'helped'. We're making progress, but it is really challenging to work with no picture! The black fluff on the left of the pic to the left is Oliver's tail. In addition to Lila's help, Oliver and Ivan had to prance right across our puzzle mat every 3-5 minutes.

This afternoon was dog swimming, and it seems to tire me out almost as much as it tires them! Chloe's been passed out snoring for most of the evening. Daisy, who swims the most, is only slightly less spazzy than usual. Jezi didn't swim today at all. We're still struggling with what to do with her.

She has become increasingly frightened of swimming and we really don't know why. We've let her sit out several times, including today, hoping she would see her sisters having fun and getting praised and want to go in again, but it's not working. She's a good swimmer and she wears a life jacket. She's never had any bad experience with water. Yet she cowers and hides when we call her to get in the water. It's such good exercise, and I really think she would enjoy it. I don't like to let my human children spend their lives enchained by fear(s), and I kind of think I shouldn't let Jezebel lose that battle. I am at a loss as to what to do with her. :(

The critters in the herbivore room got fresh greens for their treat tonight. That seems to be all of the animals' favorite produce. It intrigues me that they all love it so much. I somehow thought the birds, at least, would prefer some kind of fruit. They all go for the greens first. The birds will even fly down and steal greens from the guinea pigs and rabbits, when they finish their own. Kealey, instead of going for the greens tonight, was really intent on that piece of timothy hay that was snatched from the guinea pigs. That's Darwin in the background watching. He and Kealey are best buds!

That's Darwin enjoying some greens. Botswana always grabs the leaf (which is larger than him) from me and runs into one of his little 'hideys' to eat it privately. It's pretty adorable!