Here are the next two installments of Your Daily Siddhartha, the daily video diary that our friend Adam made while Jenn and I were on a vacation in Europe back in April of 2010 (For more backstory, please check out the post for Days 1 and 2). FYI, Adam is also the genius that came up with the caption for each video.
Day 5: Sid respects your personal space while you are in the bathroom.
Day 6: Sid celebrates a dump with his version of the Running Man.
Here are the next two Your Daily Siddhartha videos that our friend Adam made while Jenn and I were on a vacation in Europe (For more backstory, please check out the post for Days 1 and 2). The 4th is one of my personal favorites!
Day 3: Getting pet just isn’t as thrilling as it used to be.
Day 4: A day full of eating and sleeping has left Sid all tuckered out. Bless him.
In April of 2010, while we were still living in Glendale, CA, Jenn and I took an amazing two-week trip to Europe.
This was the first time we had been away from Sid for this long, so we enlisted our good friend Adam to watch over and supervise the little bugger.
Adam is a good sport, and despite dealing with the exhaustive list of Sid’s daily duties (e.g., 7am breakfast, confidence shirts, twice-a-day walks, letting the little gremlin sleep in the bed, etc.) he also managed to film a short video each day we were away. All the places we stayed in Europe had internet access so we were able to keep up with the enigma that is Sid. Yes, I know, we’re obsessed about the little dude.
Adam clearly has a knack for this sort of thing, and these videos far outshine any video Jenn and I have made to date, so we wanted to share them with you. Here are the first two days (more to come this month):
Day 1: Sid takes his morning’s pee
Day 2: Sid heads downstairs to greet the day
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xmO–R1ljhg
After Sid had plucked all the chickens from the coop, he was ready to move on to more dangerous critters: S-S-S-S-SNAKES!
Aunt Erin and Uncle Will got Sid a Snake in the Grass toy by Kyjen for Christmas. The puzzle-type toys really get Sid fired up and this one provided an added twist – elastic. There are four snakes inside the “grass” – 1 baby snake that is removable and 3 larger snakes that stay attached to the grass via elastic bands. So now when Sid extracts a snake, it flings around on the elastic as he hunts for the rest.
The baby snake is his favorite.
Since words can only do so much, here is another “Sid Vid” that demonstates Sid’s snake hunting destroying skills.
By the way, the music featured is Brooklyn’s own Baby Soda who I caught the other night at Bar Bès. They play really great old-time toe-tappin’ jazz.
Okay, long story short: Sid’s wearing a cone around his head:
We recently weaned him off his hydrocortisone for the winter (which will be explained in a future follow-up post to my earlier allergy post), and ever since, he’s been gnawing on all four of his feet and scratching away at his poor little chin.
I’m half-convinced that all of this paw chewing is due to boredom, so I thought a “comfort cone” (or “cone of shame,” if you’re a pessimist) might help him break his current cycle of destructiveness and find some other, more productive, things to do with his time.
Sid’s birthday present (besides his super special cake) was a Hide-a-Squirrel by Kyjen. Marvel as Sid extracts the mini squirrels from their tree stump faster than the speed of light.
Our apartment is super small and the “kitchen” has limited storage space, so we decided to keep our clean Tupperware on a bookshelf next to the couch, behind the kitchen island that divides the main room. The Tupperware was housed there for about a month without incident. Then, one day, I guess the Tupperware caught Sid’s eye.
After a week of coming home to find our Tupperware strewn about the apartment, in Sid’s bed, and in our bed, we set up a webcam to record Sid when he’s home alone. We were hoping the time-lapse footage would answer questions like, “at what point does Sid decide to ransack the Tupperware shelf?” or “what else is he getting in to while we’re gone?” What we learned is that Sid can barely wait for us to leave the house before diving into mischief. We embed video evidence for your review:
I’ll post more info on the awesome software we used to record the footage in a follow-up post. Trust me, it’s sweet.
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