Super Gari

#1 Looking for trouble

Yesterday Melly put a little ribbon around my neck with a medal on it. The ribbon was yellow and the medal was blue like a 1st place ribbon. I am wearing it in the photo above. Can you guess what the medal said?

#2 Super Gari

You don’t really need to guess because you can see it in the photo above. The medal has a single word on it: Super! And do you know why? It is because I am super! Of course, everyone who knows me knows about my super power, which is rolling. And yesterday I demonstrated that super power over and over and over again.

#3 Rolling with Rick

I am especially good at rolling while swimming. I have even discovered that this is a good way to get my belly scratched.

#4 Rick needs longer arms to scratch me more effectively

I even figured out how to get Melly to scratch me with her feet.

#5 Rolling for Scratching

The trick to that is basically not to bite the foot that scratches you.

That would have been a great–you might even say super–day if that were all that happened but there is a whole lot more! For one thing, Stacy Winnick is visiting us for a few days. I never had anyone come and stay over before and I am glad Stacy is my first experience with this. She is really nice and she knows capybaras since she owns Caplin Rous’ little brother, Dobby (or Dobbye on Facebook).

#6 Me with Stacy Winnick

Do you remember how shy I used to be when I first came to live with Rick and Melly? Well, Stacy is helping me get over that. Because of her experiences with Dobby, she knows how to treat a capybara.

#7 Getting to know Stacy

It didn’t take long for me to be (mostly) comfortable with her.

#8 Stacy wants to play patty-cake

In the above photo both Carl and I were amazed and amused that Stacy, a grown human woman, wanted to play a game of patty-cake. Plus, she apparently doesn’t know how these paws of mine work, which is not very well.

#9 Human-capybara converstation

It is times like these when human-capybara communication breaks down. I gave her my best capybaras-don’t-play-silly-games-like-that look but all she did was remind me of the games I played in the pool. Ridiculous! Rolling is my super power and it is not a game to practice it. You never know when I will be required to roll to save the world! I’m pretty sure patty-cake is never going to be a matter of planetary life-or-death.

#10 Standing is not my super power

I turned my back on Stacy and asked Carl for a treat. For some reason he thought I should stand on my hind legs to get it. Standing is not my super power so I don’t see why I should have to practice that but I guess a super capybara needs to be versatile.

#11 I allow Carl to scratch me

To finish off the day, I decided to go outside to graze and everyone followed me. I was pretty busy eating but Carl wanted to scratch me. I decided to let him as long as I didn’t have to stop eating while he did it.

#12 Oakley in the grass

A super capybara has to be humble so I am closing this post with a cute photo of my rabbit co-pet, Oakley.