Storm and Brandon

For a long time we have been thinking about how we will introduce Brandon to Storm. We settled on getting a large bone for Storm and to give it to her when we brought Brando home, a kind of gift from Brandon.

So we did that yesterday, and Storm was thrilled with the bone, I actually don't even know if she realised there was a baby, she completely focused her attention on the bone.

After a while she would he a few strange noises coming from the cot, and would sit up listening very carefully to where the noises where coming from and trying to figure out who or what was making them.

She slowly figured out something was there and was then a little put out when Brandon started crying, so decided this was not for her and promptly left the room for a quieter place. Then during the night she went around investigating and came to lie next to the bed to get some comfort and attention.

When we were feeding and changing Brandon at about midnight, she was very interested and jumped up, with her two front paws resting on the side of the cot, to see what was happening and what this creature that was making the noise was.

She has since then been investigating and occasionally during feeding coming up and gently going on her back two legs to sniff Brandon's head. We just leave her to sniff and then she goes off and walks around the chair investigating everything else.

It was quite funny earlier, I was in the study and Carla was with Brandon, when he started to cry. Storm came running through to me at full alert, skidded into the study and quickly turned as if ready to leave but kept looking at me, it seemed she had come to fetch me and was saying " come quickly, that thing is making those funny sounds again..."