Hi everyone!
So I am still working on the videos. Blogger has been really slow lately. Anyway I have some videos of Pipsqueak and Munchkin eating veggies and hopefully some cage tours that I will try to get uploaded soon. In the meantime, I have got updates for you! Well, first off, the "three little pigs" Sticks, Bricks, and Straw were adopted! The shelter's two adult male guinea pigs Axel and Ant were also adopted. And apparently the shelter received two more guinea pigs but they were adopted so fast that I never even got to see them! Most guinea pigs spend months in the shelter before they are adopted but those two only spent a couple of days! So the shelter is down to nine guinea pigs now. The shelter's ferret, Tinkerbelle was adopted by one of the staff. And four of the gerbils who have spent over a year at the shelter were finally adopted! So in total for small animals right now the shelter has three mice, nine guinea pigs, two gerbils, and a rabbit. And BIG NEWS! I am preparing to get a new pet! I was really wanting something like a ferret or a pair of guinea pigs, but my busy schedule has made me rethink that idea. I just don't have enough time to devote to a pet like that. And my parents would like me to pay for everything if I get another pet. Sooo, in a month or two I will have a new addition to the pets in the family. I am planning on getting a Betta Fish. So while I am saving up for his supplies and things I am going to do some posts under my critter care blog about Betta Fish.
I just gotta say this post was very difficult to write because Munchkin kept getting into mischief and trying to shred up the carpet and eat my pants!
Monday, February 14, 2011
Thursday, February 10, 2011
Recipe: How to make Munchkin's + Pipsqueak's salad
So I thought this would be cool to do. This is a recipe for Munchkin's salad exactly the way that I do it. I just thought it would be cool to show you guys a good salad for rabbit's and how I make it.
You will need:
2-3 medium or large romaine lettuce leaves
1 large celery stalk with leaves
cilantro or parsley
carrot
cucumber
a knife
a strainer
optional: a measuring cup
Step 1: Get out all of the ingredients and things you will need.
Step 2: Cut about an inch long piece of unpeeled (but washed) carrot into slices. Take about a little less than a quarter of a slice and set aside for Pipsqueak. Cut one thick slice of cucumber into quarters.
Step 3: Wash the lettuce and dry it off.
Step 4: Wash off the celery stalk. The kind I get is pretty dirty so I scrub it off with a paper towel too.
Step 5: Cut up the celery stalk into small pieces making sure to set aside a small piece for Pipsqueak. Cut up the celery leaves and cilantro/parsley to fit into the bowl.
Step 6: Assemble the salad! (and set aside a small piece of lettuce for Pipsqueak) And if you want to know if you have the right amounts you can measure the veggies with a measuring cup. Munchkin's salad is about two cups. After a while of making bunny salads you shouldn't need a cup anymore.
To assemble: Place chopped celery into the bottom of the bowl
Add celery leaves
Add cilantro/parsley, carrots, and cucumber
Put the lettuce on the plate
Feed it to the bunny!
Now take Pipsqueaks pieces and feed her:
Note: If I have other veggies in the fridge like broccoli or bell peppers I put some of that in his salad too.
You will need:
2-3 medium or large romaine lettuce leaves
1 large celery stalk with leaves
cilantro or parsley
carrot
cucumber
a knife
a strainer
optional: a measuring cup
Step 1: Get out all of the ingredients and things you will need.
Step 2: Cut about an inch long piece of unpeeled (but washed) carrot into slices. Take about a little less than a quarter of a slice and set aside for Pipsqueak. Cut one thick slice of cucumber into quarters.
Step 3: Wash the lettuce and dry it off.
Step 4: Wash off the celery stalk. The kind I get is pretty dirty so I scrub it off with a paper towel too.
Step 5: Cut up the celery stalk into small pieces making sure to set aside a small piece for Pipsqueak. Cut up the celery leaves and cilantro/parsley to fit into the bowl.
Step 6: Assemble the salad! (and set aside a small piece of lettuce for Pipsqueak) And if you want to know if you have the right amounts you can measure the veggies with a measuring cup. Munchkin's salad is about two cups. After a while of making bunny salads you shouldn't need a cup anymore.
To assemble: Place chopped celery into the bottom of the bowl
Add celery leaves
Add cilantro/parsley, carrots, and cucumber
Put the lettuce on the plate
Feed it to the bunny!
Now take Pipsqueaks pieces and feed her:
Now clean up the cutting board:
Note: If I have other veggies in the fridge like broccoli or bell peppers I put some of that in his salad too.
Lots and lots of pictures!
So I have been taking pictures with my ipod touch since christmas, so today I put all 190 of them on the computer so here are a bunch of really cute pictures of the pets:
Munchkins cute little nose!
Munchkin the Destroyer. He is shredding his bed
A cute doggie moment
The cat stealing the bunny bed
Whoa! Bunny splits!
The cat emerging out from under the side table.
zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.....
aww, cute!
awesome camera moment!
The cat and my school books. She is addicted to sitting next to and on them.
Just the bunny being cute!
So in case you are wondering why Pipsqueak isn't in any of these pictures it is because she and her stuff come out pretty blurry on the ipod. Hope you enjoyed all the pictures!
Munchkins cute little nose!
Munchkin the Destroyer. He is shredding his bed
A cute doggie moment
The cat stealing the bunny bed
Whoa! Bunny splits!
The cat emerging out from under the side table.
zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.....
aww, cute!
awesome camera moment!
The cat and my school books. She is addicted to sitting next to and on them.
So in case you are wondering why Pipsqueak isn't in any of these pictures it is because she and her stuff come out pretty blurry on the ipod. Hope you enjoyed all the pictures!
updates
Hi Everyone!
So the videos will hopefully be coming soon, I still have more tweeking I have to do because apparently I have to make them even smaller. Grrr. Anyway I just thought I would let you know that I didn't even have to worry about separating the guinea pig babies because the shelter already had. The three oldest male babies share a cage by themselves now. Since they are "the three little pigs" : ) the shelter staff named them Sticks, Bricks, and Straw.
Here is a short video of funny Pipsqueak sounds. It isn't very interesting to watch, but if you turn up the volume you can hear her squeaking in her sleep!
So the videos will hopefully be coming soon, I still have more tweeking I have to do because apparently I have to make them even smaller. Grrr. Anyway I just thought I would let you know that I didn't even have to worry about separating the guinea pig babies because the shelter already had. The three oldest male babies share a cage by themselves now. Since they are "the three little pigs" : ) the shelter staff named them Sticks, Bricks, and Straw.
Here is a short video of funny Pipsqueak sounds. It isn't very interesting to watch, but if you turn up the volume you can hear her squeaking in her sleep!
Monday, February 7, 2011
What is to come!
Hi everyone!
So I have a lot of stuff coming! You can expect to see some new videos in the next week or so. I am going to be doing a video cage tour of Munchkin and Pipsqueaks cage and their stuff. It is taking some tweeking because the videos uploaded to blogger have to be small, so a five minute video is like to big. So I am going to be doing the videos in parts, but you can expect to see them sometime this week! I am also going to do a video about Munchkin's bunny room where he gets to roam free.
And Updates!
So, the baby guinea pigs are growing!!! They are getting so big! So today I decided to figure out what gender they are because I don't think anyone at the shelter has yet, and I figured out that pretty much all of them are boys. Out of the seven babies I think that five are boys, one is a girl, and one I couldn't tell because he/she wouldn't stop squirming. It is a good thing that I figured that out, because I went home and did some researching and discovered that babies stop nursing at three weeks old and that is when the males have to be separated from their mothers and other females because they can start making babies! And the first two born are three weeks old tomorrow! So tomorrow when I go to the shelter I am going to make sure that they move out and into their own cage.
Thursday, February 3, 2011
shelter stuff
Hi everyone!
I thought I would tell you all what it is like at the shelter right now and what kind of critters I get to take care of there. So the shelter has the usual dogs and cats, and there are also guinea pigs, gerbils, mice, a ferret, and a rabbit there.
I would say the shelter probably has about the usual ten to twenty dogs. My favorites out of the bunch are three dogs named Beowoof, Victor, and Sahara. Beowoof is a gorgeous fawn and white pit bull. He is very sweet with the right people. He is big on cuddling. Victor is a brindle pit bull mix and he is very amusing. He is full of goofy antics and he LOVES to run around very fast. He has been at the shelter for a long time, and has gotten a bit fat. So I take him out whenever I can when I am at the shelter for some exercise. His favorite things are running, and playing with ice. And Sahara is a fawn colored pit bull mix. I LOVE Sahara. She is very sweet. She is rather shy, but she has gotten a lot more comfortable with me now that she thinks of me as the "freeze-dried liver dispensing machine". I recently taught her how to stand on her hind legs and give me a high five at the same time. It is very cute.
As usual, the shelter has a LOT of cats, and I have no idea how many. All of my favorite kitties (I love all the animals at the shelter but there are definitely a few that come along that I really really get attached to) have been adopted.
So now for little critter goings on at the shelter:
The last degu was adopted! I am so happy! I will miss him though. He was starting to really like me (he didn't like me much at first). The shelter still has a six gerbils. Gerbils just do not get adopted out very often. These six have been at the shelter for over a year (fortunately gerbils are an easy and inexpensive pet to care for so the shelter doesn't mind keeping them for as long as needed, even if they were at the shelter permanently). I recently upgraded their habitats. The four females have a huge tank that I found in the shelter's basement to live in and they LOVE it. The two males just inherited all of the degus cool toys and hideouts, so they are happy.
The shelter has three mice right now named Mickey, Kiwi, and I guess I forgot the other ones name. Mickey is the cutest mouse ever with long fluffy black and white fur. He is a favorite of the shelter staff and he gets spoiled. The other two mice are white and they came in together but had to be separated. Kiwi had a lot of hair loss most likely caused by living in bedding that was saturated with urine all the time. Since he has been at the shelter I have been changing his bedding 1 to three times a week, so all of his fur is back! I am so glad. Hairless mice are not very pretty.
I love the shelter's rabbit. He is a lot like Munchkin personality wise and with his obsession with treats. He is really healthy with the exception that he is being treated for ear mites. He is a New Zealand rabbit. So he is white and fluffy and very big.
The ferret at the shelter currently has no name. She is adorable! I gave her a bath when I first came in because she had oily fur and irritated skin. She is feeling much better now and is going to be taken home by one of the staff when she has been given the okay by the vets. She is a really sweet ferret and she loves to cuddle.
And of course the guinea pigs. Fifteen guinea pigs to be exact. Axel, Ant, Betty, Billie Jo, Cream Puff, Blueberry, Yogashi, Kaede, and of course the seven babies. Axel and Ant are the boys. Ant was just a little baby when he came in and he is growing up now. He is the cutest thing with his fur making him look like he has a mohawk. Cream Puff and Blueberry are both medium haired guinea pigs and so cute. They each had babies, but only one survived. Sadly Blueberry had to be euthanized. After she had her babies she became very very unhealthy. Billie Jo who is still a baby was the first to have babies, and her babies are growing like crazy and they are already eating solid food. Betty just had her babies this week and she had four really cute ones. Yogashi and Kaede came in to the shelter about a month ago and I LOVE them. I call them the Japanese pigs because they have japanese names. Yogashi means "small cake" and Kaede means "maple syrup". They are both very fat. I have been limiting their food so hopefully they are starting to lose weight. They love to sleep on their sides in the cutest way ever. They also like to squabble with each other. They take turns kicking each other out of the "pigloo" hideaway.
So that is all the shelter stuff I have got for now. I hope you all enjoyed hearing about it.
I thought I would tell you all what it is like at the shelter right now and what kind of critters I get to take care of there. So the shelter has the usual dogs and cats, and there are also guinea pigs, gerbils, mice, a ferret, and a rabbit there.
I would say the shelter probably has about the usual ten to twenty dogs. My favorites out of the bunch are three dogs named Beowoof, Victor, and Sahara. Beowoof is a gorgeous fawn and white pit bull. He is very sweet with the right people. He is big on cuddling. Victor is a brindle pit bull mix and he is very amusing. He is full of goofy antics and he LOVES to run around very fast. He has been at the shelter for a long time, and has gotten a bit fat. So I take him out whenever I can when I am at the shelter for some exercise. His favorite things are running, and playing with ice. And Sahara is a fawn colored pit bull mix. I LOVE Sahara. She is very sweet. She is rather shy, but she has gotten a lot more comfortable with me now that she thinks of me as the "freeze-dried liver dispensing machine". I recently taught her how to stand on her hind legs and give me a high five at the same time. It is very cute.
As usual, the shelter has a LOT of cats, and I have no idea how many. All of my favorite kitties (I love all the animals at the shelter but there are definitely a few that come along that I really really get attached to) have been adopted.
So now for little critter goings on at the shelter:
The last degu was adopted! I am so happy! I will miss him though. He was starting to really like me (he didn't like me much at first). The shelter still has a six gerbils. Gerbils just do not get adopted out very often. These six have been at the shelter for over a year (fortunately gerbils are an easy and inexpensive pet to care for so the shelter doesn't mind keeping them for as long as needed, even if they were at the shelter permanently). I recently upgraded their habitats. The four females have a huge tank that I found in the shelter's basement to live in and they LOVE it. The two males just inherited all of the degus cool toys and hideouts, so they are happy.
The shelter has three mice right now named Mickey, Kiwi, and I guess I forgot the other ones name. Mickey is the cutest mouse ever with long fluffy black and white fur. He is a favorite of the shelter staff and he gets spoiled. The other two mice are white and they came in together but had to be separated. Kiwi had a lot of hair loss most likely caused by living in bedding that was saturated with urine all the time. Since he has been at the shelter I have been changing his bedding 1 to three times a week, so all of his fur is back! I am so glad. Hairless mice are not very pretty.
I love the shelter's rabbit. He is a lot like Munchkin personality wise and with his obsession with treats. He is really healthy with the exception that he is being treated for ear mites. He is a New Zealand rabbit. So he is white and fluffy and very big.
The ferret at the shelter currently has no name. She is adorable! I gave her a bath when I first came in because she had oily fur and irritated skin. She is feeling much better now and is going to be taken home by one of the staff when she has been given the okay by the vets. She is a really sweet ferret and she loves to cuddle.
And of course the guinea pigs. Fifteen guinea pigs to be exact. Axel, Ant, Betty, Billie Jo, Cream Puff, Blueberry, Yogashi, Kaede, and of course the seven babies. Axel and Ant are the boys. Ant was just a little baby when he came in and he is growing up now. He is the cutest thing with his fur making him look like he has a mohawk. Cream Puff and Blueberry are both medium haired guinea pigs and so cute. They each had babies, but only one survived. Sadly Blueberry had to be euthanized. After she had her babies she became very very unhealthy. Billie Jo who is still a baby was the first to have babies, and her babies are growing like crazy and they are already eating solid food. Betty just had her babies this week and she had four really cute ones. Yogashi and Kaede came in to the shelter about a month ago and I LOVE them. I call them the Japanese pigs because they have japanese names. Yogashi means "small cake" and Kaede means "maple syrup". They are both very fat. I have been limiting their food so hopefully they are starting to lose weight. They love to sleep on their sides in the cutest way ever. They also like to squabble with each other. They take turns kicking each other out of the "pigloo" hideaway.
So that is all the shelter stuff I have got for now. I hope you all enjoyed hearing about it.
Tuesday, February 1, 2011
Critter Updates
Hi everyone!
I have some shelter critter updates. The last pregnant guinea pig had her babies! She had four! She had one huge guinea pig baby who was obviously hogging all the space because they other three are very small. They are all doing great and I moved them to the biggest cage we have, because the old cage started out with two pigs in it, but after the babies it has eight! And even though the babies are small, they definitely needed more space. They bounced and ran all around, so they loved it.
My pets are all doing really well. Munchkin is loving his new cage setup. I had to relocate his water dish to the opposite side of his cage since he kept putting his towels in the water bowl when he napped there and getting them soaking wet every day. But since I moved that everything has been just right for him. Pipsqueak has been digging tunnels in her bedding like crazy lately. Lacey is still having a blast with all the snow, and Sheba is enjoying eating the bird seed that falls from the bird feeders. Agatha has been her usually self sleeping on anything in my room that is a sweatshirt or that is made of fleece or paper.
I have some shelter critter updates. The last pregnant guinea pig had her babies! She had four! She had one huge guinea pig baby who was obviously hogging all the space because they other three are very small. They are all doing great and I moved them to the biggest cage we have, because the old cage started out with two pigs in it, but after the babies it has eight! And even though the babies are small, they definitely needed more space. They bounced and ran all around, so they loved it.
My pets are all doing really well. Munchkin is loving his new cage setup. I had to relocate his water dish to the opposite side of his cage since he kept putting his towels in the water bowl when he napped there and getting them soaking wet every day. But since I moved that everything has been just right for him. Pipsqueak has been digging tunnels in her bedding like crazy lately. Lacey is still having a blast with all the snow, and Sheba is enjoying eating the bird seed that falls from the bird feeders. Agatha has been her usually self sleeping on anything in my room that is a sweatshirt or that is made of fleece or paper.
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