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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!

#WeAreAllZoey #GardenDogs #DogsOfBluesky #ACDLife
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! 🥰

#GardenDogs #DogsOfBluesky #ACDLife
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
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
When you dance on your “walk” and “eat” buttons so hard they fly across the floor and no one jumps into action. Cattle Dogs are queens of side eye!

#WeAreAllZoey #GardenDogs #ACDLife #DogsOfBluesky
A small grey and brown Cattle Dogs sits and stares impatiently with an overall air of “WELL???” at the camera with her mat of dog buttons visible in the background about 2 feet from where they normally sit.
September 12, 2025 at 5:38 PM
citymousegarden.bsky.social
Cosplaying as a fuzzy slipper!

#WeAreAllZoey #GardenDogs #ACDLife #DogsOfBluesky
A small grey and brown Cattle Dog lies flat on a rug next to a pair of slippers with a fuzzy cuff in the same coloring.
September 5, 2025 at 8:40 PM
citymousegarden.bsky.social
Hot coffee in bed, thermal shirt & fleece vest weather, & Mr. CMG took baby potato to groomers so she won’t have Wolverine nails when I fetch her later. Fake fall here, but heavenly at the moment. Sad yesterday’s forecasted rain was a bust tho—plants so dry.

#gardening #WeAreAllZoey #GardenDogs 🌱
Sleepy grey and brown Cattle Dog looking like an angelic fur potato in bed before starting her morning human herding duties and list of demands.
September 4, 2025 at 1:23 PM
citymousegarden.bsky.social
When your dog is a 15/10 on the intensity scale. 😆

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A small grey and brown Cattle Dog lays in a tiny red donut bed with her front legs hanging over the edge ready to leap into action as her ears and her eyes intensely point out to the right out of frame where a neighbor dog could be heard playing next door through the window and may need to be barked at if she can figure out how to get away with it without getting in trouble.
September 1, 2025 at 4:27 PM
citymousegarden.bsky.social
#WeAreAllZoey was enraptured by minty #NativePlants Monarda fistulosa. We also got Sporobolus heterolepis, Parthenium auriculatum, & cultivars Phlox ‘Summer Bouquet’ (long-blooming sterile hybrid) & Physostegia virginiana ‘Vivid’ (shorter & slightly less spready). Not bad for $3 clearance plants! 🌱
Small grey and brown Cattle Dog #GardenDogs #WeAreAllZoey inspecting the trays of new plant arrivals, which look great for end of season sale time bargains, and she must have gone over the Monarda with her sniffer like 5 or 6 times. She loves fragrant #gardening too!
August 29, 2025 at 3:37 PM
citymousegarden.bsky.social
Today’s #AlwaysBePlanting Report, birthday haul edition: 1x Zauschneria ‘Orange Carpet’; 2x Sedum ‘Stardust’; 1x Sedum ‘Pillowtalk’; 1x Sedum ‘Abbeydore’; 1x Symphyotrichum shortii; 1x Chelone glabra; 1x Desmanthus illinoensis; 2x Eryngium yuccifolium ‘Prairie Moon’; 1x Arnoglossum plantagineum. 🌱
All the plants I brought home from my birthday mini road trip across the border into Wisconsin with a delightful mix of foliage shapes and colors, some native, some just adored by #pollinators anyway, & one very miffed #GardenDogs #WeAreAllZoey in the background pouting behind the screen door because she was not invited.
August 28, 2025 at 9:41 PM
citymousegarden.bsky.social
Happy Gotcha Day to this fuzzy space alien #GardenDogs queen. It’s been 6 years since we adopted a toddler beaver that turned into this lovable potato. Sound on for the hilarious sounds of #WeAreAllZoey sleep-merking all the small fuzzy things in her dreams.

#ACDLife #DogsOfBluesky #AdoptDontShop
August 26, 2025 at 3:08 AM
citymousegarden.bsky.social
To my dismay, my dog hunts wasps *outside* despite getting stung in mouth/regretting/forgetting/trying again. But if a fly gets *inside* house, she loses her mind. Wouldn’t come out from under bed to eat until we brought bowl to her. 🙄 #gardening #WeAreAllZoey #GardenDogs #ACDLife #nature 🌱
A small grey and brown Cattle Dog very un-bravely leans out from under the bed to reach her bowl of kibble and eat laying down half under it because a fly exists in the house downstairs.
August 15, 2025 at 9:33 PM
citymousegarden.bsky.social
Mr. CMG took this picture last night of #GardenDogs #WeAreAllZoey transfixed in full sploot like a statue watching me eat BBQ spare ribs. Australian Cattle Dogs are so smart you can literally see the Rubik’s Cube turning behind their eyes when they are plotting & scheming. #DogsOfBluesky #ACDLife
A small grey and brown Cattle Dog lies on the rug with her front paws wide and her back end splooted, staring off to the right at my dinner plate (and into the depths of my soul). Piercing eyes and perky ears folded forward give away her plotting to dispossess me of my meat sticks.
August 11, 2025 at 4:39 PM