mixing it with Flour

I am happy to announce that Flour the white teddy male guinea pig, has been adopted. Flour came to us with three other guinea pigs, and flour was the last to be adopted. Hey, nothing wrong with being last. He is such a sweet boy, and there is one thing different about him than other piggies, he doesn't like baby carrots! Every guinea pig I have ever dealt with, whether a personal pet or rescue goes nuts for carrots, tears right into them, but Flour, he wouldn't ever touch them. He likes his apples and oranges, parsley and other dark greens, but NO CARROTS. Guess they have different tastes, but he's the first to not like a carrot.

Also adopted that same day was Clara. Clara the beautiful, sleek, dwarf hamster. Check out her photo and I am sure you agree that she is stunningly good looking.

It's MAGIC

Magic the handsome black and white rabbit is adopted now. He was in a foster home for a while, and now he has his own permanent loving home. His new owner has another bunny named Pony, she noticed Pony has a bit of a runny eye and took her to the vet. The vet found a bit of infection in the eye and prescribed Baytril and recommended to wait before bringing Magic home. which isn't a problem, Magic will stay at his Foster Mom's until Pony is all better. We are wishing Pony to get well real soon.

Yesterday our shipment of mealworms came in. I filled up dishes of mealworms and gave them to our reptiles. Drogo the water dragon and Griswald the club tailed iguana were basking on a top shelf of their enclosure. When they saw the dish of mealworms they dove off the the shelf so fast and started muching up the mealworms. I took a picture of Owen happily eating his mealworms.

Bella the ferret

Bella is presently adoptable. She went to see the vet on Thursday (yesterday), Daddy took her:) She has an excellent bill of health and she was given her very first rabies vaccine. Bella was given up because her previous owner moved away. Bella is four years old but still looks like a young kit. She is so precious.

Ebony's adoption

Yesterday, Ebony the female rabbit was adopted. She was born in our home, a female rabbit was surrendered to us due to recent aggressiveness, well, she was moody because she was pregnant, hormonal and protective. She had five babies a week later after she arrived at Life Long Tails. The Mom and 4 of the babies were adopted, but Ebony was the last baby still looking for a home and she had turned a year old, she had been with us that long. Well, yesterday was her big day! A family with children of differing ages and rabbit experience fell in love with her and adopted her. Ebony is home now.

We bought a new bed/tunnel for our own resident cats ( we adopted them from the SPCA), this is a picture of Harry inside of it and Paige next to it, just sitting pretty.

We are petsitting two guinea pigs for a friend and her family, they are going to Hawaii for two weeks, how very nice!:) I'll put pictures in the blog soon. I didn't make any photos of them yet, they are just settling in, so I don't want to be flashing a camera at them just yet. Although they seem unperturbed by the move, ( they are here with us now, at Life Long Tails) they are eating hay ( a lot) and drinking and popcorning all over, as if nothing happened to them at all today, and it's a normal usual happy day. It's a good thing, I guess, seems they like it here. Oh I forgot, their names are Stewart and Howie, 2 boys, and they get along real well with each other.

The joys of pets

Last night as I watched the many rescues, I realized many of the things they do that I enjoy and makes me happy. I love watching the guinea pigs and rabbits, as I see a piece of hay disappear into their mouths, and they reach for another strand and that one slowly disappears into their mouth also. I love how the fish follow me around eagerly waiting for me to drop in some food. I love how the rats and ferrets poke their heads our of their hammocks or tubes when they hear me approaching. And last night I was watching Fagen, our head tilted rabbit, in his pen. He was hopping from toy to toy, and he tested and playing with each one, he nosed one and pushed it around, he grabbed a hold of the other and flung it in the air. He then dug inside his food bowl with his front paws, then proceeded to a pile of hay where he started munching away. Fagen looks really different, but he is a normal bunny in so many ways.

recent hamster adoptions

Above is Dexter and to the right is Patrick

Last weekend a few of our rescue hamsters went to their loving forever homes. Patrick the little handsome dwarf hamster, went home. He's is overly adorable and a mush for attention. Also adopted were Chief the syrian hamster and Dexter the dwarf hamster, Dexter was a tad older than the rest, but he still won a new forever home with his charm and good looks.

Hamsters are mainly surrendered to us because they are a litter of babies that was unplanned and unwanted. And we take in up to 10 to 13 babies, and sometimes Mama as well, especially if the litter isn't weaned yet. We then separate babies ( male from female) at the appropriate time so no more babies come about. We are so happy when a hamster is adopted and goes home, they were once unwanted and now they are happy and loved. All the people that opt to adopt are wonderful in my eyes.

Received a call today, and someone tells me that I didn't get back to her fast enough, because she needed a hamster NOW. Ugh, anyway, she bought a female hamster from a pet store that was mixed in with about 50 other hamsters as she describes, males too. And 2 female gerbils, she said they were the last of the gerbils, but I am sure the pet store had more at one point and there were males. So she currently could have a pregnant hamster and two pregnant gerbils! What was she thinking! After I told her she could have up to 30 plus babies on her hands, and will need to have about 8 to 10 cages, tanks on hand when it comes time to seperating them all

when they are old enough to impregnate each other. I told her she could give us the babies when it comes time , we'll take care of them , we can accommodate them and we can find them homes. She says , and I quote " we'll keep them all here and you can find them the homes." Pardon??!! I can see this being a disaster and I have a feeling I won't find them homes quick enough for her, and they are all going to wind up at the pet store. Time will tell.