Harry & Izzy

Michelle:
We just wanted to give you a little update on Harry (Boots) and Izzy (Bobbie).  
I have enclosed some photocopies of our latest pictures of the guys.  I hope they 
look healthy to you because I think that they are.  And happy as well.  
Izzy has taken to Max, and tends to sleep wherever Max is.  Harry will also crawl
onto Max, but Max doesn't like him so well.  Harry emerged (almost right  away)
as the dominant male and eats first and does everything first.  (Max has always
waited so he never puts up a fight).  Harry will attack Max and although
Max outweighs him and could beat him up, he will usually just move away.  
(Max is a gentle soul). Harry is a crazy water baby and when he hears water he 
will come running from where ever he is to watch it.  Since his first bath he 
has never fallen in, but he's come close sometimes.  Everything he does is
f-a-s-t....eating, running, anything.  But when he's tired, he'll make a
 little peep and crawl into my lap and sleep.

Harry (black) &  Izzy (gray)

Iz is something else.  She is very skittish and won't come out if 
there is company, while Harry has to see what is going on.  But if it is
just Doug and I, she follows us around, when she not sleeping with Max.  
She fetches.  She will bring a mouse and you'll hear a sound and look down and 
she has brought you a mouse to throw.  So we throw it and she goes tearing
away and fetches it back (to much praise and petting).  She also cirrupts
and squeaks and has a squeaky purr and chatters all the time.  If she can't find a 
mouse, she will go find one of my sox in the hamper and drag that out (we
are trying to avoid this but it is funny). If Doug folds his clothes on the bed,
she'll jump up, steal a sock and he won't even notice until he is one short.
She also likes to crawl under the covers when we sleep, and she purrs
her creaky purr - it is pretty funny.

Harry, Iz & Max

We remodeled during the winter and while it was stressful, the three of them
were troopers and we made it through.  While there was carpeting and
sheet rocking and everything imaginable, we were moved to various 
areas, and it was difficult.  Now, we are finally settling into a routine 
and sand boxes and beds are in the same place instead of constantly moving about.
For a while it was like we were just visiting, but now they know the 
whole place and us and it wouldn't feel like home without them.
Many thanks again for adopting them to us.

Betty and Doug Roiger, New Ulm