June 30, 2008, 1:26 am : More of the Cute

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Not feeling my best right now, thought I’d find something to make me feel a bit better.

That’ll do nicely.

August 2, 2007, 11:00 am : In need of cute!

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Ahhh, that feels better.

July 9, 2007, 5:36 pm : Random Funny Picture

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July 9, 2007, 5:02 pm : Better picture of Franc

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She’s settling in well. She loves running around my room, and when she isn’t doing that she likes to sit on top of the guinea pig house.

Thinking about it, I haven’t posted an updated picture of Honey since I got her. She’s a bit of a wriggler so its hard to get a good shot, but here is one of her right before she fell off the wheel.

July 5, 2007, 4:14 am : Bunny Rabbit

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I had my day nicely planed out on Tuesday. First i had to drop my sister into work so i could have the car for the day. Then i had to go to the doctors office to pick up a letter, then back to town. I parked in the mall and walked the short distance to Blue Banana, went to the back of the shop and asked for my eye brow to be pierced. They told me the room was being disinfected but i could fill out the forms and pay then and come back at midday. It was a little longer than i had thought, but i went window shopping in the mall as i had planed to do after i got my eye brow done. It had been suggested i have something to eat before i went back so i had an early lunch then headed over.
Long story short, i bled, a lot. I’d had it pierced before but that fell out, so the new one went through scar tissue, which hurts as well as bleeds. But it does look good in my opinion, it’s purple and in my left eye brow.

I intended to spend the rest of my day doing art at my local Mind, i don’t normally go on a Tuesday, but thought i would for a change. Of course as soon as i got there i was told the art group was cancelled due to lack of staff and everyone had to be gone by 2pm, this was about 12.30pm so i decided to sit there and chat a little until 2 so i actually had something to do before having to pick my sister up at 5.15.
Of course, after i left the group i still had 3hrs to kill so thought i would go to the market at the bottom of town. This is where things went wrong in a very good way. There is a pet shop in the market, which i don’t like very much. I got my hamster there and still feel she was too young to have been sold. Another thing i dislike about it is the tiny cages they put rabbits and guinea pigs in. One of the cages is at most 2 foot by 2 foot and tucked under a load of other cages so it’s almost out of sight. In there was a small silver rabbit hardly moving. I did ask if she was ok in there and they told me she was fine, they just told me they sulk when in smaller cages, my only thought was, “of course, they have no space for anything else.” I thought a while about if i could afford to keep a rabbit and in the end i just thought i had to get the poor thing out of the tiny cage, if it then turned out i wasn’t able to look after her i would find her a good home that could. So i paied for her and told the shop staff i would be back about 4.30 to pick her up so she didnt have to stay in a(n even smaller) box for too long. I walked around the market a bit but that doesn’t take long so soon enough i was sat outside the pet shop just waiting. After a while though, the keeper came out to me and explained that the breeder had called and was worried about the rabbit, they weren’t well and wouldn’t be sold to anyone, the breeder was coming in to take them back and bringing two healthy ones with her. I said i would have a look at them and decide if i still wanted one (i was thinking that if they were the same sex they would both go in the larger cage so i would leave them, but different sexs i would take the female (so the temperment is more likely to be suitable with the guinea pigs). It turned out it was a boy and a girl, both completly black, netherland dwarf / lionhead crosses. They were beautiful, but i could only take one and the girl was kept aside for me. It wasnt too long from then until i had to get my sister so i got the rabbit box and walked back to the car. Securing the box in the front seat i drove to the car park by my sisters work and got out the bunny to hold while i waited.
She was late coming out, and in that time i saw an old science teacher come and go from the car park and even had someone mistake the rabbit for a puppy, but they still thought she was very cute. Finally my sister came out, but once she saw the rabbit she asked a bit about it then asked to take it in to her office to show some people how cute she was. Few minutes later she was back in the car and we headed home.
I think the rabbit softened the blow of the metal in my head, there were fewer comments on that than the new fluff ball. She settled in very well to her new home and is getting along great with Shammy and Connie.
So, here is the latest member of my furry family, Franc the rabbit:

And to explain the name, like with pork products for hamsters and cosmetics for guinea pigs, rabbits are named after money as males are bucks and females are does. Don’t worry, the logic works for me!

June 11, 2007, 1:42 am : Guinea Pigs

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I went out on Thursday, i had the car as i’d driven my sister to work so i could make an appointment. Well, i’d had a bad week mostly so thought i could cheer myself up in the pet store, looking at all the cute furry creatures. The brids were beutiful, the hamsters were so cute in their sleeping pile, they even had a pair of tiny tortoises in a tank.
Recently one of my friends bought a guinea pig and called him Oscar. Well right at the back of the shop are two pens, the nearer of them had two boy guineas and and a boy rabbit, the pen behind had three girl guineas. I spent a while talking to the shop assistant, which i normally hate doing, but i get hyper and talkitive when i haven’t slept. So, after about half an hour of asking about what cage, and how to care for them i said i’d think about it, see how much money i had and talk to my sister before i decided.
When i got home i told my mum what i was thinking and, surprisingly, she liked the idea (though she did tell me she would never hold or touch them - she has mild rodentophobia). She thought that instead of talking with my sister i should surprise her and get them before i picked her up from work. I gave my room a quick tidy, so the cage had a place to go, and checked i would have enough money in the bank for it all, which i did, just, then headed back to the pet shop.
I spent about another 2 hours in the shop. We, the shop assisant and i, talked more about do’s and dont’s of guinea pig ownership and took a look at the three girls (the boy’s were already sold). There were two tricolour and one brown girl, all short haired. The assistant first picked up the brown one to show me but noticed one of her eyes looked watery and swollen. She checked it with the manager who agreed the guinea should be seen to by a vet before they could sell her. They had told me they had a seven day returns policy if any health issues showed up but if i took the brown one home knowing about its eye that policy would be void. I felt bad, but we looked at the other two, the tricolours. They were beautiful, the markings one them were totally different so they could easily be told apart. One of the things i had brought up with the assistant was that i knew guineas were social animals and needed a lot of company, and it was generally better to go with another guinea than a rabbit as they have been known to harm guineas and that chances are my company wont be enough. The result of this is of course i had to buy two of them, and as the two tricolours were more than likely sisters they were most likely to get along and both looked generally healthy.
So that was it, i decided to buy them. The next thing was to sort out what cage i wanted. The pet shop i went to is brillient, they have a starter kit for every animal. So, in the case of the guinea pigs, i could get; a cage big enough for two with house, bowl, water bottle and hay rack, a bag of complete food, a toy, bag of hay, bag of straw, bag of sawdust, mineral lick, animal friendly disinfectant and a book on guinea pig care for £55.99, i added a wodden tube, a portable carrier and a cage fan for hot days to it. It’s a good thing i don’t believe in omens as things wouldn’t have been good for me, first with the brown guineas bad eye and then when i chose the cage i then found out they were out of stock, only had the one on show left. But they agreed to get that one down from the wall and clean off the dust. The day was boiling hot and even in the air conditioned store i was feeling thirsty so i left to get some water at a near by shop while the assistant got the kit together, when i got back it was laied out so all i needed was to pay and get it all to the car. Paying was easy, if painful to my bank balance, but i needed help getting the cage out so a male shop assistant was asked to help. I left the guineas in a box in the shop deciding i would come back for them after taking everything else out so they didnt have to sit in the hot car while i fumbled about with everything. Once the guineas were in the car i made sure all the windows were open and the box was secure in the seat and headed home.
I took the guineas in first then needed dad to bring the cage in while i carried all the bags of supplies up to my room. i quickly set it all up, put in the beding, food, water and furnishings, then opened the box to put them in their new home. As tempted as i was to get a first photo of them i thought it best not to as they were cuddled up in a corner looking quite scared, they had after all been in a small dark box for about half an hour. Lifting them carefully i put them in the cage and left them to settle in.

Of course being me i couldn’t just give them average names. For hamsters the name must be some sort of pork product, rabbits should all be currency (as males are bucks and females, does), but i never really seriously considered guinea pig ownership before, so hadn’t thought what route to take. I did think a while ago that naming after countries might be an idea, but it wasn’t too appealing to me. Of course i then ralised what guinea pigs are most famous for - scientific testing, cosmetics inparticular. After that it didn’t take me long to think of Shampoo, and for a secong guinea pig, what goes better than Conditioner?! Of course i like to shorten names, so my two little girls are called Shammy and Connie.
It wasn’t long before i managed to get my first video of the two so here it is;

The larger one with an orange bum is Shammy, and the smaller ove with red only on her ear is Connie. Both are still settling in but are much loved in their new home.

April 8, 2007, 5:34 pm : Happy Easter

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Well, it’s time for yet another of the Christian holidays the whole country gets time off for. At least we can still say “Happy Easter” to people without the PC police raining down, and i get chocolate, which is never a bad thing. I slept in but my sister got me up so she could give me some of her egg, usually i’m annoyed when she gets me up, but i’ll forgive her this time. I don’t normally like holidays, while i’m at home most of the year anyway, the holidays tend to wear me down, i actually have to spend time with my family instead of just in my room. This year isn’t so bad so far though, maybe it’s because Christmas is still fresh in my mind, it wasn’t terrible either but its a much longer hoilday which means more time with the family. Of course, my aunts haven’t come to visit us from Ireland yet, i think they’re coming next week but i may be able to hide more then as it wont be the acutal holiday, maybe i can just start sleeping in the day and only come out at night.

But back to the important part. The Chocolate. Every year my dad buys my sister and i an egg, we have a £10 limit each and every year i spend the limit. This year my sister was working when my dad was able to go to the shop so she asked me to pick one out for her, but i had instructions, she didn’t want the ones with a chocolate bar, just something simple made by tesco. So i looked about and they had some nice big eggs within our limit, i know my sister likes dark chocolate but next to the dark chocolate egg was a milk chocolate brownie egg, it took some time but i know my sister loves brownies and i knew that i’d get some of hers as we always share. So i got the brownie egg for her and started to look for mine. I can say without doubt that Lindt is the best chocolate ever but it always costs a lot for not very much and there were only three choices, a dark chocolate one, which i don’t like, a small milk one with a tray of chocolates, most of which probably had nuts in which i don’t like and the egg hunt pack. I, of course, went for the pack, it had soild mini eggs, Lindor eggs, mini chocolate bunnies and 4 small eggs (about the same size as the other milk egg).

It is amazing! They all taste so good, not only that but because it’s not one big egg which i have to unwrap at once it’s lasting longer as i’m not forced to have it all avalible in one go. Of course, as i mentioned, we share our eggs here and when i opened the box i found there were 4 pop out and fold baskets, i made them all up and put some of the eggs and a bunny in each for each of my family. I still kept the most of it for myself but at least i won’t get the bad looks from my family for keeping it all for me.

I am, as you may have guess, rather odd, and also felt like finding out what the print on the foil looked like when it was flattend, apparently it’s like this:

Well i hope all have a good holiday.

March 22, 2007, 7:26 pm : A Deadly Threat

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….but so increadibly cute. Couldn’t you just hug this guy until your head explodes? which of course wouldn’t take very long.

*head explodes*

Oh, i had an after thought, i did mean the bear, not the presenter, just to clarify.

March 17, 2007, 4:02 am : New Hamster

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I know it hasn’t been long since i lost Scratch but i’ve been lonely without her and decided to get a new one today, well yesterday seeing as it’s 2am now. My sister and i went to the pet shop, my sister having been the day before and had chosen her favourite, when we got there they were all happily sleeping in a big pile at the back of the cage, with one occasionally waking up to walk over its sisters to sleep at the back of the pile. Soon enough though they started to wake up, hamster yawns are fantasticly cute by the way. There were two we liked the look of, the one my sister had picked out yesterday, which had white and cream fur and an all black one. We watched them for a while to see how they acted, if they looked friendly and so on, finally we decided on the black one, she seemed very sweet. The shop assistant fished her out of the tank and put her in a carrying box, which for some reason advertised bird food, she advised us on which wheel was best to buy, the one i had Scratch never liked, it didn’t look too comfortable.

We got her home, i’d already made up the cage so she was ready to go, i opened the box and put it in the cage, she wouldn’t leave it on her own so i tipped it up and she slid out. I didn’t pick her up as she had already been through a lot, she was obviously scared and the first thing she did was run and hide under the hay in a corner. She calmed a little after a while and i was able to stroke her a little but still didn’t pick her up. I left her to it and she explored her new home, she seems to like hiding behind her wheel, i was please to see her discover her food bowl and water bottle, i always worry a new hamster wont find them. She’s had a lot of fun running on the wheel, everytime i see her she runs and runs then a paw slips off the side so she stumbles, so she has to start over and then she just does the same over and over, it’s so funny and cute.

Of course being me, i had to name her after a pork product, so this little girl is Honey Roast Ham(ster).

March 4, 2007, 2:35 am : Scratch Video

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This is the most recent video i took of Scratch, hopefully it wont be the last