Murphy

In my opinion, Chinese dwarf hamsters are the nicest hamsters of all. When I worked at Petsmart, among my other duties, I took out and showed the fuzzy things to the customers. The only breed that never bit me were the Chinese dwarfs. My sister used to have one, and so did another pet store I worked for. Murphy used to go with me to work, and shared lunch with me.

She gets lost so easily, though. The cats are still intent on finding out if she's tasty, so when we lose her, it's doubly terrifying. It'll be better when we get rats again. They don't get lost so easily, and Skeet learned that rats aren't as afraid of him as hamsters are. I remember when they first met... they walked right up to Skeet and started going through his fur. That freaked him out really fast.



These pictures were taken as she sat in my lap. She's quite photogenic if you can get her to hold still long enough!

Tiny Kitty Shirts

I got a pattern for shirts for small dogs, and made one for my cats! It's made out of an old shirt I had, and it fits both of them! Don't they look so happy?

Onyx Laid an Egg!

Onyx, our new little lovebird, has laid two eggs! She happened to lay them while she was in her fuzzy hut at the top of the cage, so they both fell and cracked open. I got her a little box and put some fake eggs in, so hopefully she won't lay any more. We don't want to breed them right now, and laying eggs is hard on a tiny bird's body. The eggs were much bigger than expected! They were a full 3/4 inches tall, with love birds being only about 4 inches tall.

New Shoes!

I custom ordered these All Star shoes. Aren't they awesome?! They're a dark purple with pirates on the tongues/insides, and black laces. I love them.

Florida!

This is Dad at the shooting range. I'm afraid I can't remember what gun he had...


Mom had boxes and boxes of photos, and she enlisted Meg and me to help her go through them! It was really fun. We got to see photographs of us as kids, and all the pics she had of our weddings.


Meg and Jonathan, after a bath in the sink!


Me and Adam at the beach. I just had to take the old "hold up the camera so you can take a pic of both of us" picture. :)


I got to see my nephew Jonathan. He's not used to me yet, so this was a rare shot!

Our Newest Addition

This is a fischer's lovebird. We got her as a companion for Mango. They've bonded already, and are living in the same cage, but she is really scared of people. I've got a few months of working with her ahead of me, but that's no more than I did for Mango.
We named her Onyx, and she hardly makes any noise at all, which is a nice change from Mango's screaming... :)

Day Trip to the Swell!