A Zoo Update

First of all, I’m not sure if you’ve ever been introduced to the darlingest members of our zoo, but here they are with Abriana. Their names are Mercedes and Edmund, our beloved yellow and black Labs. Cedie is the yellow one, and she is Ed’s mother (he was born two years ago with ten other brothers and sisters, six of whom survived to grow up with him). Cedie is the head of farm security and takes her job very seriously, considering it her duty to be alert at all times to any threat. Her favorite way to show us affection is to hold our hand (see below.) Edmund, on the other hand, could care less about farm security. All he wants is to play, especially fetch. But if we won’t play fetch, he also loves to lay on our laps and chew on his “toy”. Now for an update on Emmy, the only bottle-lamb which I kept for the flock. That is her below with me. She still likes to nurse from Jenny, which we are going to have to put a stop to very soon since she is almost eight months old.
And here is Daddy on Jenny, and me and Napoleon (Jessie’s colt). We have separated each young donkey from its mother, so there has been somewhat of a ruckus lately. Jenny positively refused to go more than a few steps when I tried riding her previous to this picture being taken, so Daddy decided to take the situation in hand. She did a little better for him, but not much. No amount of forceful tactics will induce her to go where she does not want to go. (It takes corn).