New Friend

Harley made a new friend the other night. He will sit at the sliding door and look out and watch the bugs. There will be times when he starts jumping and hitting the window. That is what he was doing the other night. I of course thought nothing of it, a normal sound from Harley. Don took the dogs out and watched Harley. He commented-He is a big one, isn't he? Intrigued, I had to look. There was Harley checking out the toad on the other side of the window.


Here is Harley trying to play with his new friend. He continued to roll around on the floor and paw at the window.

This is a great shot of the toad. He is literally "standing" on his tippy toads to look into the window and see what is going on. In order to this, he had to get up two steps and make it from the pond area.

Another view of the two checking each other out. It was like a stare down. Who is going to blink first? Me? You?

This is my favorite picture of them. Harley is nose to window while the toad is as close as he/she can get. It was fun to watch the interaction. Harley was not trying to attack (like when he goes after a bug) but rather intrigued by the "new" creature. He had never seen a toad before and was just checking out the interesting creature.

Davidson went over to investigate but did not get too close. He is a scaredy cat - yes literally. He is fearful of anything that is new the first one or two times he comes across something. If it happens again, he most likely will get a bit closer, but not as close as Harley. Such opposite cats. It the same with the dogs. Bandit waits for Smokey to do something, but he is the first one to continue to investigate. She is a bit pushy with people, he will patiently wait his turn.