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citymousegarden.bsky.social
#TFW you are just trying to wrap a few presents while sitting on the carpet but you have a Cattle Dog. 😆🐶🙃

#WeAreAllZoey #GardenDogs #DogsOfBluesky #ACDLife
A pair of legs in pink sweatpants extended out over a tan patterned rug with a few wrapped presents and paper scraps nearby—and a big fuzzy lump of grey and brown Cattle Dog smack in the middle because she doesn’t care what you have planned and *KNOWS* this was really an invitation to scritches.
November 12, 2025 at 8:41 PM
citymousegarden.bsky.social
Another pre-snow memory from last week. Usually on struggle bus, my neighbor’s Magnolia (scale) & Hydrangea macrophylla (wilty/doesn’t bloom often here) were looking so gloriously #FantasticFoliage #FallColor that even #WeAreAllZoey appreciated it.

#gardening #bloomscrolling #GardenDogs #ACDLife 🌱
A lovely small vase-shaped Magnolia with golden and bronze leaves, a large-leafed Hydrangea with gorgeous green to burgundy fade, & a small grey and brown Cattle Dog on a leash snuffling in the dried brown fallen tree leaves below.
November 10, 2025 at 6:07 PM
citymousegarden.bsky.social
Damp cool day so #GardenDogs #WeAreAllZoey and I are browsing seed catalogs & online sales, ordering so many #MilkweedForMonarchs #seeds for winter sowing this year, & doing totally normal Cattle Dog stuff.

#gardening #DogsOfBlueSky #ACDLife 🌱
A small grey and brown Cattle Dog sits at the edge of a bed she likes to hide under with the comforter draped over her head like a nun’s whimple as it got stuck when she popped out waiting for me to do something, anything “fun” according to her.
November 8, 2025 at 6:09 PM
citymousegarden.bsky.social
When your Cattle Dog has been in wild dingo mode all day and then curls up into a cute little ball with her furry little toe beans on display. 🥰

#WeAreAllZoey #GardenDogs #DogsOfBluesky #ACDLife
Tiny little Cattle Dog feet with little black pads skirted by ruffles of long hair.
November 5, 2025 at 10:55 PM
citymousegarden.bsky.social
Mr. CMG spotted a new backyard visitor while outside with #WeAreAllZoey at lunch. Surprised he got a photo with our four-legged wildlife alarm by his side. He says it is White-Throated Sparrow, native unlike zillion introduced House Sparrows we see daily.

#gardening #birds #ecosystem #GardenDogs 🌱
A beautiful little bird with black striping over the head and behind the eyes, a hint of yellow in front of the eye, and white on the throat, plus beautifully detailed brown and white and black wings, momentarily resting on the fence rail behind a blurry dried panicle hydrangea in the foreground.
November 4, 2025 at 7:42 PM
citymousegarden.bsky.social
Zoomies launch code entered. Sequence initiation in 5…4…3…2…ruuuuunn!

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A grey and brown Cattle dog looks tweaked and ready to trash the house lying on her side with her legs held up floating off the surface of the bed and her big floppy ear pointing out to space with crazy eyes. A windup toy ready for ruckus!
November 3, 2025 at 2:53 PM
citymousegarden.bsky.social
#WeAreAllZoey has a lot of feelings whenever we watch sportsball. Any loud enthusiasm or frustration makes her want to climb me like a sand dune. Here she is gripping my arm the other day (trying not to fall asleep in process). She’s a cute little space alien! 🥰

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A small gray and brown Cattle Dog with floppy ears sits semi-upright on the couch leaning so hard into the side of my arm that it’s mushing her little snoot to one side and wrapping her little forearms around my lower arm, looking tired, and feeling heavier than a big sack of potatoes.
November 1, 2025 at 10:04 PM
citymousegarden.bsky.social
While Mr. CMG was helping me take down the last of the peppers and tomatoes, #WeAreAllZoey was on #birds patrol, particularly the ones twittering in this obelisk full of tasty #NativePlants Lonicera sempervirens berries.

#gardening #bloomscrolling #GardenDogs #DogsOfBluesky #UrbsInHorto #Chicago 🌱
A small grey and brown Cattle Dog sits glaring off to the right utterly fixated by birds moving in a tall obelisk covered in vines and berries while the sun shines through spent Holy Basil flowers and drying strawflowers in the foreground.
October 26, 2025 at 9:34 PM
citymousegarden.bsky.social
Cattle Dogs are so smart they play emotions like a Stradivarius. #WeAreAllZoey pounds ‘walk’ & ‘listen to me’ buttons all morning even when I am back-broke from #gardening. If request denied, stage 2 is intense mind meld blocking tv followed by ASPCA commercial audition. #GardenDogs #DogsOfBluesky 🌱
A small grey & brown Cattle Dog sits high on her bed on the hassock glaring extra hard at me while I have to look around her from the big chair to see the tv which she fully knows and takes advantage of often. A small grey and brown Cattle Dog moves into phase 3 of her plan, which is curling up on the same bed with her head and floppy ears hanging down towards me in despair and her tiny little Fritos-scented feet grip the edge of the bolster like she is waiting for a sad ballad to turn on in the background to emphasize her suffering.
October 23, 2025 at 6:47 AM
citymousegarden.bsky.social
This Chaos Monkey FAFO’d last night & woke whole fam at 2am (again) because she was bored so she & I’ve been bedroom crate training all day to implement night jail—suddenly she’s trying lull me with her sweet lap baby nonsense. #ACDLife is 24/7 scheming. #WeAreAllZoey #GardenDogs #DogsOfBluesky
Small grey and brown Cattle Dog curled in a sweet little ball on the couch next to me with her paw gently and a floppy chocolate velvet ear on my leg.
October 15, 2025 at 1:02 AM
citymousegarden.bsky.social
Is it the weekend yet? Because I also feel like this.

#WeAreAllZoey #GardenDogs #DogsOfBlueSky #ACDLife
A small grey and brown Cattle Dog lies on a rug with her paws folded up across her chest and her eyes rolled back in her head.
October 10, 2025 at 1:39 PM
citymousegarden.bsky.social
We were promised rain in the forecast tonight which we desperately need so #GardenDogs #WeAreAllZoey is putting the ‘blue’ in Blue Heeler as she vigilantly watches for it… and squirrels… mostly evil plant uprooting squirrels. #gardening #ACDLife #DogsOfBlueSky 🌱
A small grey and brown Cattle Dog glows a faint blue in the soft light as she stares unflinchingly out the open back patio screen door.
October 6, 2025 at 5:09 PM
citymousegarden.bsky.social
#WeAreAllZoey playing nosy neighbor looking for cats/squirrels/falling leaves/bugs/anything moving in the shrubs on the other side of this fence on afternoon walkies.

#gardening #GardenDogs #DogsOfBluesky #ACDLife 🌱
A small grey and brown Cattle Dog on a leash sticking her head trough the bars of a cast iron front fence with her tail perked and her ears up on a garden hunt. Tiny yellow leaves starting to gather on the sidewalk at her feet as she casts a perfect dog-shaped shadow.
October 4, 2025 at 8:18 PM
citymousegarden.bsky.social
Put on overalls for #gardening therapy, went to get tools from garage, let this 35# lunatic go with me. Within 3 min, she was full-bore hunting a small fuzzy, flung 50# stone bird bath onto my toe, got stuck in thorny rose, & had to be carried in fireman-style. #WeAreAllZoey #GardenDogs #ACDLife 🫠🌱
A small grey and brown Cattle Dog lies in the corner between two chairs facing the wall in a self-imposed timeout. Has 100% already forgotten why she deserves it because ACDs are wild dingo YOLO dogs.
September 30, 2025 at 3:50 PM
citymousegarden.bsky.social
Spotted this plant chomper in neighbor’s yard on my way out to plants some new plants. We try to coexist with nature but not looking to open a baby plant salad bar so #WeAreAllZoey gleefully sent it zooming opposite way. Thank goodness for fences so she couldn’t catch it.

#gardening #GardenDogs 🌱
A chonk little wild bunny eyeballing me from the neighbor’s yard on her way to breakfast.
September 29, 2025 at 3:56 PM
citymousegarden.bsky.social
Just a Cattle Dog doing normal Cattle Dog things… like weird self-soothing by sitting like an immobile Sonic the Hedgehog ball for 10 minutes every morning. 🤷‍♀️🐶🤔

#WeAreAllZoey #GardenDogs #ACDLife #DogsOfBluesky
A small gray and brown Cattle Dog in a round red donut bed bends like a circus performer into a perfect 3D ball shape with her face floating over her back end, then remaining that way motionless for 10 minutes every morning.
September 26, 2025 at 1:38 PM
citymousegarden.bsky.social
Had to say goodbye too soon to friend of 30+ years today. Cattle Dogs don’t excel at empathy (#WeAreAllZoey spent most time when I got back laying by my shoes in next room to decode where I’d been) but #gardening always provides respite like this perfect white rose appearing today. #bloomscrolling 🌱
A huge pristine fluffy white rose bloom floats alone among the variegated foliage and pink blooms of Eupatorium ‘Pink Frost’ and Clematis ‘Constance’.
September 18, 2025 at 10:02 PM
citymousegarden.bsky.social
Our house is 100+ years old & haunted by a fuzzy ghost that appears in pitch black hallways silently, dressed in grey camouflage, so you can only sense the wag of her tail & really doesn’t like it when you go to bathroom without her supervision. 🤣

#WeAreAllZoey #GardenDogs #ACDLife #DogsOfBluesky
A small grey and brown Cattle Dog lies in a dark hallway staring at a closed door waiting to trip an unsuspecting victim.
September 13, 2025 at 1:48 PM
citymousegarden.bsky.social
Blep!

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A small grey and brown Cattle Dog somehow caught in focus as she whips around from sunning herself on the warm concrete on a cool day to trying to lick this gardeners’ dirt-covered hands. Her pink tongue folds up to her nose and her floof tail curls around to meet it while her ears flap out.
April 16, 2025 at 2:58 PM
citymousegarden.bsky.social
Lazy Sunday Goals:
✅ Magic gravity-defying floating paws
✅ Round little belly like a Renaissance painting cherub
✅ Completely impractical nap position
✅ Tiny half-barks from chasing squirrels in her dreams
#WeAreAllZoey #ACDLife #GardenDogs #DogsOfBluesky
A small grey and brown Cattle Dog lays half on her back/half on her side with her top feet floating in space and her round little belly pushed out by the strange position.
November 25, 2024 at 4:25 AM
citymousegarden.bsky.social
Ear game on 12 today. She looks like she lost her jib in the chilly wind. 🤣 #WeAreAllZoey #GardenDogs #DogsOfBluesky
A small grey and brown Cattle Dog curled up in a bolster bed with her feet tangled up and her upper ear flung out behind her like a scarf behind someone on a motorcycle.
April 9, 2025 at 4:02 PM
citymousegarden.bsky.social
That’s hilarious! I grew up with Dobermans & rescue Greyhounds so I thought we were turning the crazy down a bit rescuing a smaller dog this time but Cattle Dogs are the most independent, stubborn, bossy, but adorable tyrants I’ve ever encountered. Everything is about/belongs to #WeAreAllZoey! 🤣
December 6, 2024 at 4:03 PM
citymousegarden.bsky.social
Train them to help chase! I clapped & hollered squirrels off my fence/pots so much I accidentally taught my dog that clapping means run to the window, throw her little paws up on the sill so she can look out, & bark her head off. Makes watching sports at home impossible. #WeAreAllZoey #GardenDogs🌱
April 10, 2025 at 12:00 AM
citymousegarden.bsky.social
After #gardening all day, you must submit to a full sniff-spection by the warden.

#WeAreAllZoey #GardenDogs #ACDLife #DogsOfBlueSky #MuddyOveralls 🌱
A small grey and brown Cattle Dog sits next to dirty knees of a pair of overall-clad outstretched legs slowly sniffing every lingering outside smell after starting her inspection on top of the hassock at the bottoms of the legs and moving around.
May 7, 2025 at 12:44 AM
citymousegarden.bsky.social
Very tired from long night of drugging & hugging #WeAreAllZoey because people who set off amateur fireworks are soulless monsters but since we’re watching Rose Parade now, some mega colorful Red-Banded Leafhoppers seem like a beautiful start for 2025. #GardenDogs #gardening #LoveBugs #Ecosystem 🌱
A bright red and electric blue striped leafhopper with neon yellow legs on a hairy leaf with holes chewed into it. A bright red and electric blue striped leafhopper with neon yellow legs hiding in a cluster of new healthy leaves.
January 1, 2025 at 5:21 PM