My studio is called Three Cats and a Dog, because they all “help” me in their own very special ways.
The dog is a German Shorthair pointing dog named Patch. He is now very old, and going blind and deaf and doesn’t smell well anymore either. His hind legs have a tendancy to go out on him at times, but he is still happy and doesn’t seem to be in pain. He loves lying right between me and the bench and the soldering station. Lovely. Cramped. Sometimes I can step over him, sometimes he has to move so I can get where I need to be. I tried putting a furniture pad out for him to lay on, but he wants to be close by.
The cats are Speckles (the mother) and two of her children, Adventurer and Mugsy. Speckles cruises through, and sometimes naps on one of my fabric work tables. Mugsy has always been a scaredy cat, and she breezes in, freaks out, scurries out. If Patch is in while she is she cusses him out - and he ignores her completely!
Adventurer is “my” cat, and he is the one who “helps” the most. Here is a picture of him “helping” me while I was doing some stringing. Which is very hard to do with a cat sitting on top of everything!
Adventurer helping
His idea, of course (and it usually works) is that if he gets in the middle, he will get petting and loving. And then he moves to the top of my big printing press and sleeps there - where he can supervise everything and everyone!
In addition I have way more crickets, spiders and Plametto bugs than I have any desire to play host to :( Probably because my studio is partially underground, and the big double doors to the outside don’t close all the way. Lots of fresh air!
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