Living with Anteaters

I lead the battle into mom's lap. She was thrilled. All went well till Beaker came along and was all "Hey ladies!" Then Aurora noticed him and the fact she was in a human's lap.

After that we took the battle under the bed. Running, tumbling, and bashing around under there, it was great.

Then I lay out for a bit till mom gave me a fresh blanket and some ants. Though I have been going back and forth between the closet and washer since.
I've just finished a noon time vinegar bath and am back in the washer. That felt good, much needed.

Anyway Aurora and I are sharing the closet and I was belly up so mom rubbed my belly. So I grabbed her and hugged her tight with all four limbs and used her arm for a pillow. When I dozed off she tried to make a silent exit but being a big human she always makes lots of noise.

Oh she also bought a crib bumper and cut into sections for shelf covers for our travel shelves. Is she hinting at us being big babies, with all this baby stuff?

Place mat for Aurora's soup station

Now I've got a new reason not to like nail trims.
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Time laps: it was an allergy attack. I was wheezing badly in my sleep after the nail incident. My oddly halting breath pattern when sleeping makes this seem even scarier. Mom used Grandma's stethoscope to listen to my lungs, some serious wheezing going on. Mom gave me some Benadryl and snuggled with me as it kicked in.

I'm breathing fine now, though when mom slipped her arm out from under my head my nose pointed down some and I got a snorry sort of purr sound then but no more wheezing.
See mom I'm allergic to nail trimming.

MOM: maybe you inhaled some ant acid

Pua: No, cut that out


Pua Tamandua Sleeping deep and peaceful.

I heard you messing with treat cups. Where's my treat? Huh, what does the fact you were washing them have to do with this? I need a treat.

Aurora climbing the cage


Oh hey mom I see you found me in the washer. Did you come to join us. What are you waiving around in front of my face. I'm trying to sleep here. Oh wait is that my cheesy supplements? I got this now.

"You're going to spill it"

I got this,go away.


Got up. Had my supplements. Now time to nap in the closet nest.

Mom was cleaning the closet in preparation for patching and repainting(sometimes when an anteater gets bored we just gotta pick at things). So I got up and came to the closet as she was getting into it and she had to scrambled to put the pad and blanket back.



Did you bring me extra treats?

Snuggled in

I kept bugging mom for treats last night but I hadn't touched my food so she started giving me treat cups with some of my food in them. Not funny mom. Not funny at all.

Aurora: The human came and opened the washer and poked Pua's foot. She got some ants but they don't interest me in cups. I left the washer after and ran around the room and threw a couple books down and went to the closet. I got a cocktail out of the ordeal.

Aurora: After having the room to myself for a bit I have gone back to the washer. The washer is a sacred place that is meant to be free of disturbances. Maybe we need a: humans stay out sign.

Got up and had a drink then went to the closet. Sharing the washer with Aurora is nice and toasty but I do like to stretch out.

There's been many nights where I've not touched my food lately but I've still been pooping and Aurora's soup has been dispersing in larger amounts.

Mom tried making a new batch of food a bit different in the middle of this and of course I didn't touch it. She had a container of old left so night before last she put both out. I picked at the old. She put both out again last night. I didn't touch any till morning right before turning in but I ate a good amount of the new.

Got to keep her guessing and on her toes.

Pua Tamandua Guess Aurora didn't get the memo about the plans to paint today, now that the patching is dry.

Your orange? But it was on my counter!

The one and only time I ever watched TV was long ago. The bunny cage was in front of the TV and I was walking along it and stopped to watch. I began hissing and crying at it till commercial then I went on my way again. It was Law&Order: SVU. Obviously that is the worst show ever made.

Aurora: *Looks out of washer* What is that horrible smell? Are you burning the house down?
Human: No that's just incense.

Aurora: Well, cut it out. That's gross. You should know better. *Retreats into washer*

Pua Tamandua I don't like it when mom tries to take photos of me yawning so I turn my head away when I have to yawn and she has the camera.

Pua Tamandua Are you looking at my butt?
(I love the shadow in this one).

Mom and Grampa spent all day making me this box yesterday. Though I suspect it was more for her as she was tired of all the falling wood bits to clean up. I am suspicious of new things so avoided going into it at first by going from shelf to hammock then clawing the wood from the hammock.
 

Chillin in the closet with Aurora. She's got her period.

Aurora was just sitting on the dresser chillin this morning but she heard mom grab the camera. She wasn't sure if mom was really awake or not though so she crept away instead of ran.
Also it seems Aurora likes to sit on the shelves and watch mom when she thinks mom is asleep.

You may remember some time back when mom heard Aurora apparently having some sort of party under the bed. Well mom checked out that drawer as part of fall cleaning and Aurora has unrolled an old cassette tape and made a tangled nest of it. She also shredded a couple of unimportant books.

Holding Aurora's foot to sleep. My other arm was between her legs cuz' I was hugging her tail and using her rump as a pillow.

So mom got the clever idea to move Aurora's food bowl to my dinning area. It would mean less cleaning and Aurora's smart and a bit less high strung than before right. And the bowl's right there so she has to see it as she walks by.

Nope. Aurora paced all night complaining. I think she was convinced it was a trap of some kind. At one point Aurora tossed a book down. Mom got up to see what happened and Aurora started running but in place as books went flying till she fell, grabbing at books as she went taking more with her. At least she left plenty of books for mom to clean up to make her point.

Mom finally gave in about an hour before time for Aurora to turn in and mom get up and moved the bowl back to the shelf.

When mom brought me my afternoon supplements it took some time to wake up. I held onto mom's hand while I did and then kept holding on while I ate. Then I needed a few kisses before letting her go.

Then she wedged some sort of metal suitcase between the drier and the wall, real tight, after putting some smelly stuff in the hole to try and dissuade me. Then she slept really light and chased me off any time I messed with it but I couldn't move those suitcases anyway.

I had to settle for playing with Pua in the princess hammock and throwing more stuff around.

So now she's blocked the hole permanently (we'll see about that). And put a drier vent filter on the tube instead. Not the crappy kind with water but a good one with a real filter. (PS this only works with electric driers. You'll kill yourself if you vent a gas one inside even with a filter.)