Our other babies

So long before we had Ava, Damo and I got our first pet - a beautiful budgie named Gidda she's a brilliant yellow but unfortunelty most of our photos of her got stolen when our house was broken into (a totally different story that still makes me mad).  Gidda would go everywhere with us and used to sleep up our jumper sleeves.  Now she prefers to chill out in her cage rather than compete with Jock and Ava!  It's funny when I open her cage in the morning and she gives me the look of 'don't you dare make me play on the floor with those two!' 

Then 6 years ago we got another family member - our silky terrier x Jock.  It's pretty fair to say that we did treat him like our little baby!  He prefers to sleep on our bed rather than the $100 one we bought him, he loves wearing cute pjs and jumpers and like his sister Gidda he gets Christmas pressies and gets his name written on birthday/Christmas cards for family.  Just be warned there are  A LOT of cute photos coming up!

A lot of people were worried about how Jock would adapt to not being centre of attention.  Damo and I both looked into this before Ava was born and read that it's a good idea to let your dog smell something of the babies before introducing the baby so they can get the scent from the article of clothing first.  We did this one of Avas' beanies then carefully lowered her to Jocks level to our surprise Jock didn't seem too interested . . .  at first!  Now  . . . .

He is like Avas little shadow and is constantly "on gaurd" - I'm surprised he hasn't managed to lick a layer of her skin off with the amount of kisses he insists on giving her and while he can get a little jealous if people come over and don't say hello to him he has adjusted really well and we couldn't be happier with our little family of three, I mean four wait no I mean five!