Escape from city life - again!!

My humans (and that's not one of them above, I promise...) have been gallivanting all over the show the last couple of weeks. If I didn't know better I'd swear we're moving down to second place on the list of priorities in this house...

Last week they travelled to the Kruger National Park and spent a few days travelling from lodge to lodge in the park. She tells me they saw all the members of the 'Big Five' in the first two days, not bad!

The little vervet monkey above was spotted in one of the camps - if you'd like to see more pictures of their trip, click here.

In the meantime, us domesticated creatures are still sulking, so don't hold your breath for any updated photographs of us just yet - she'll have to spoil us rotten before we play along again!

Oh, and by the way, do you know who all the members of the 'Big Five' are?

All together now... 'Soooo cute!'

At the end of every year my human always seems to feel the urge to look at all her old photographs. She discovered these puppy photos of us and I said it's OK, she can show it off on my blog. I did have one condition though. I said she has to ask you all to send me one picture of you as you look now and one of you as a puppy or kitten. If your human doesn't have a puppy/kitten pic of you (maybe they adopted you as an older pet), that's OK, still send me your favourite picture of yourself!

My human has created an email address for me (emilene - note to self: I really have to get a life!). So you can send your pictures to: abigailtheyorkie@gmail.com. I will post them all on my blog once I have received a few.

I can't wait to see what you all look like!

Anyway, so this was me five years ago...

And these two are of Chloe, also taken five years ago...

We were pretty cute, even if I have to say so myself! Since we arrived our human family has also grown by one member - my humans have one little grandchild now! He's only two years old, so we were here before him. We really make sure he knows that! I will say that competing with him for everyone's attention was a full time job in the beginning, but now we're pretty cool with having him around.

This weekend he performed in his first Christmas concert and I have to say, based on what I hear the humans saying and looking at the pictures they took - it was a pretty special day! My human wrote about it on her own blog - if you want to see what he looked like, go have a peep at http://www.caminosantiago2012.blogspot.com/

Now I just wish she would get going with putting our Christmas tree up...

Can't wait to see your photographs!!

It's all about friends!

Let me tell you something about animals. They know how to network! I have made at least 18 new friends since my human started my blog and if you keep in mind that each one of them have at least two humans, that means I can add another 36 humans as well. And then I'm not even counting all the other animals that each of those households have.

I am a very private girl but I will admit, I love inviting all these new friends in my life! I think my human feels a bit more normal now that she has discovered so many other humans who are just as connected to their pets!

I saw something she wrote the other day and thought I'd share that with you.

She said she is really grateful for her 'anyway' friends. Friends that remain her friends anyway, no matter what happens! I really get that. I think that is exactly what all pets are as well. We will remain our humans' friends anyway, no matter what! Perhaps that is one of the reasons why they love us so much!

On that note, let me me introduce you to the rest of my family. Lets start with the other Yorkie in the house. Her name is Chloe and we are the same age. She's a bit camera shy, so this is the best I could get...

I love her to bits but we do constantly battle for a spot on my human's lap. She really makes me mad at times but she remains my friend anyway!

Then there's George the Maltese. He's our alpha male but he has his work cut out for him with two female Yorkies in the house. George is incredibly regal. He doesn't have any pedigree papers like we have but if dogs had kings and queens, George definitely would have been a king of sorts. I really respect him and will always let him eat first, I even allow him to be the leader at times when the humans take us for a walk. :)

Then there's Bacardi. He's also a maltese but he's really been very camera shy lately. I'll get the human to practice her camera skills on him next week. As we're all getting some of our best pictures posted, it's only fair that he also gets to have a nice one as an introduction.

It's scary how much I've become like my human. She also likes things to be just right! Wait a minute, maybe she got all of that from me - we all know by now what a strong personality I have!

I just overheard on the news that the humans are watching on TV, that one third of South Africa's drinking water is contaminated. Even as a non-human, I find that to be a disgustingly sad statistic! I'll have to tell her to fill our drinking bowls with the filtered water that I see them drinking. My stomach is just too sensitive to deal with anything less...

Here's wishing you all a wonderful week!