Hot Dogs (and cat!)

L to R:  Miles, Belle, Sabbath, and Nase

 It is HOT!  Today as I was tending to a horse with a sore foot my animal crew was keeping me company.  They were all smart enough to find some shade to lie in rather than stand in the sun.  This was after a full morning of riding horses, a short ride around the neighborhood as a search and rescue mission to locate Belle's frisbee, and teaching riding lessons.  The animal lessons included Sabbath schooling a client's dog on cat etiquette or cat-iquette if you will.  Sabbath is very dog-savvy and this client's dog will chase cats if given the chance.  Sabbath saunters up to the dog, climbing the tree to which the dog is tied.  Sabbath can say more with a look than most cats can by vocalizing.  He commands the dog to stay where he is, and then Sabbath approaches confidently, weaving around the base of the tree through the trunks.  If the dog snaps or lunges at him, Sabbath will either freeze, bolt up the tree, or snarl at the dog.  Usually by the end of a training session Sabbath has a dog standing still on command while he winds through the dog's stationary legs.  This from the cat who was so feral when we got him that we didn't see him for 6 months!

Miles finds some shade