Juliet and Tilly

Tilly was adopted partly under the guise of being "Juliet's pet" (like Ollie is "Leah's pet"), but often Tilly just frustrates or scares Juliet. He's always jumping up and trying to "share" her food or play with her feet as she goes up and down the stairs or sits at the table. A few times now Juliet has asked if she could exchange Tilly for a little white dog instead.  Don't worry, Leah and I give Tilly a lot of love and attention (as do Brain and Ollie)

Lately, though, Tilly has been sleeping in Juliet's baby carriage and allowing Juliet to push him all around the house. It's really built their connection. Now Juliet even picks up Tilly--we joke she picks him up like someone would pick up a pile of poop if forced to--really fast and tosses it aside as quickly as possible.

Chris likes to tell me that Tilly upset the animal balance in our house. Unfortunately, he is right, though I still believe in Tilly's potential for excellence in adulthood. Tilly started waking up the other animals between 4-5 am and then they were all begging for food before Chris was ready to get out of bed for a few months there. It was getting really annoying. I bought some crazy animal pheromone spray from Amazon that we spray at them when they start being annoying at that time and in 3 days, we've noticed a huge difference. Fingers crossed it continues.