Did you miss me babies?

Being away for several days, I thought for sure my animals would be all over me with missed-you kisses!  Well, animal behavior is such a fun observation.

Let's start with the kitties.  Unfortunately, one of my cats passed away when I was gone.  I only had Tine-Tine for about a year as her owners had to reluctantly give her up, but at 13 she still outlived her two brothers.  Blessings to you little one. 

Merlin Bob gave me a hero's welcome - he is the farm ambassador and greets everyone as they come on the property.  (Really, he just pretends to be greeting them, he is actually a security guard in disguise.)  LingLing acted as if she could not care less if I am here or not (which is probably true) as long as there is food in the dish.  Clio and Amelia just decided they would great me on their own terms.

The boy alpacas, horse, donkey and goat are such males.  They were all over me like ivy on a wall.  The girl alpacas??  not so much.  Trish - the black one - came up and let me scratch her, then turned around and spit in my face.  Oh well....

Today, I decided to switch pastures between the female and male alpacas.  We have three pastures and the normal run is to have Dandy, Edward and Isaac (horse, donkey and goat respectively) in the right pasture; Mikey, Arthur and Churrie (boy alpacas) in the middle; and girls, Trish, Tami, Cha Cha, Binki, Missy Louise, Nellie and Little Ruthie (Cha Cha's baby)in the left.  The girls are used to going in the middle, but the boys have never been in the left one.  Oh, they were so funny running all over the place, checking out the sleeping quarters, seeing if any food was left in the bins, sniffing poop piles, chasing each other - guess it serves as a good diversion.  Wonder what the girls will think when they go back in and notice the invasion?

Water check:  drank 51 oz of straight water, and other liquids in excess of 64 oz!  The cats drank the rest of my water:-)  They love me...they really love me!