Christmas--Animals

Last year Squeak and Atlas were the animals of Christmas. This year Sentinel joined them.

And this was pretty typical of the Squeak/Sentinel encounters. Squeak was of the "Oh yippee! Another cat! I will follow him around! It will be fun!" mind while Sentinel was of the "Why must this other cat constantly be near me?" mind. They did okay together, though. There wasn't any hissing between them.
Sentinel spent most of the day in the bedroom on the bed, with a few visits to the kitchen. Squeak eventually got bored of that, and came out to explore. He's a very busy kitty.

Here he attempts to sit on the non-ledge where the two windows meet. He failed and fell back on the couch. Unhurt, he sprang up to find another place to watch what was going on outside.
Chris shoveled off the deck so his dog Atlas wouldn't have to sit in the snow. What did Atlas do? He sat in the snow, ignoring the nicely shoveled patch in front of him.
There are a lot of black animals in our family now.