This is Sam, the resident pet at the Yellowstone Basin Inn in Gardiner, Montana, where we stayed for a night on our way back from Yellowstone. (A very nice place, by the way. I highly recommend it.)

After a week away from the Internet, his Flickr-colored tags seemed to be saying, "Come back, Chris... Come back to the Web..."

I got my wife a kitten for Christmas:

Our dog Pedro thinks that the kitten is his pet and hasn't stopped hovering over it for the past 6 days:

In fact, he only eats when the kitten does:

The kitten quickly figured out that Pedro is afraid of this baby-gate (it tipped over on him once when he tried to climb over it), so he crawls underneath it when he needs a break from the constant dog-mothering.