Ruby is a fantastic dog, when she wants to be. She knows a good amount of tricks, loves to wrestle with her daddy, and will make you yell your heart out when you’re taking her to the bathroom because she runs off and starts eating plants. Every. Single. Time.

Now, since Shaina had Jeremy she has gotten quite jealous when he comes to spend time in our room. It’s when she wants the most attention. However, don’t get her wrong, she loves that little man. Especially when he has food…

She likes laying by him but doesn’t so much like being hit by things in his hand so she will often get up and move.

Now with all this, you have to wonder, how is she going to be when Jamie and my baby is born?

I’ll tell you. Protective. She has a heart of gold but with anything baby related she gets protective. It’s not other people around the baby we’ll have to worry about. It’s Ruby around the other people with the baby! She might try to something sneaky and someone will be losing a finger, and it’s not the baby!

We always have had cardinals hanging around the neighborhood but we had been noticing that there were some hanging around the house  a lot more.

This is the male, obviously, right? Some people don’t know the male birds have the brightly colored feathers…like my brother.

We had seen him and a female hanging around until my Mom saw them flying into a bush near the window.

Sure enough, looking in, this is what was found:

Two baby cardinals. Here’s where the sad part kicks in and I’m a little irritated.

Our cat, which is outside, found them out. Yesterday I walked out to our sunroom to find the Mama cardinal killed and eaten. I’m so mad. I know, it’s nature, she’s a cat, they’re birds..circle of life. Yadda Yadda Yadda.

I still yelled at her and I know that these chicks will not get a chance to live. The Dad was still hanging around yesterday but we had a pretty big storm all day yesterday and last night. I haven’t checked on them this morning. I don’t think I could stand it.

I was looking forward to watching them grow up from a distance. As cardinals only nest 1-15 feet above ground, I guess it wasn’t meant to be.

They sure are pretty birds though, aren’t they?