Thanks everyone for the kind welcomes . Olly is a sweetheart and I absolutely love him. I am enjoying his babyhood and know all that might change when he hits his 'terrible twos', but I have a preteen human daughter and am used to tantrums anyway!
Like any proud mom I do have lots of photos of Olly, and would like to share them! (I hope the photos upload ok)
When he's not with me indoors, he spends most of his day on our garden swing, as you can see I've turned it into a rather large playstand! I got the large green rope from a fishing and boating supply store and twisted it round the legs of the swing for Olly to climb up and down on. (I made a little swing for him with the leftover length, thanks to the inspiration from other members' photos on this forum!) He is free to climb down onto the grass, and I think it satisfies his need to 'forage', which he does for a couple of hours each day (I scatter seeds for him).
The other photos are of Olly having his breakfast, watched over by my 6 year old German Shepherd Zoe, who seems to have appointed herself Olly's bodyguard! Zoe is the sweetest, kindest teddy bear of a dog, and the two of them seem to have forged a bond in the last two months. (Olly has learnt to bark a little, too!) Zoe chases away the sparrows which come to steal Olly's food, and with Zoe around, Olly is also safe from any neighborhood cat that might be passing by.
Thanks again for the warm welcomes, I am glad to have found such a nice group of people in this forum!
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