11/12/2012

A Bird on the fan is worth two in the bush

Last week a bird flew in my bedroom and spent the entire day there, resting, I presume, before I was able to shoo him on his way back outside. I don't know why these things always happen when Jody is not around.
One time, when Jody was gone for the night, a 12 inch long gecko entered my room to spend the night in air conditioning for a change. He hid behind my wardrobe when I tried to catch him but proceeded to make his mating call all night long. Local legend has it that if one of these lizards bites you, it will not let go unless you cut off its head. I didn't sleep well.
More recently, when Jody was away, I saw a monitor lizard (they grow to be 3 feet long) crawling up the rafters in my kitchen, under the eaves and into my attic where it then thrashed around overhead like a dinosaur for days. So I guess the bird wasn't so bad...but I still wish Jody would have been here.

11/05/2012

The trouble with bunnies...

Bunnies made much better pets for Cadence than I had originally thought. They turned out to be very social and let Cadence do ANYTHING to them without complaint. We got her two since she is two. She still thinks that is a novel idea although she has trouble making her hands only show 2 fingers instead of the usual 5.
We even caught her on Jody's bike one day, wearing her helmet (backwards) and hoping to take her furry friend out for a spin.
The bunny didn't even protest.
I originally proposed the names "Dumb" and "Dumber" but I lost to "Hot Dog" and "Biscuit". It turns out that bunnies like to eat...a lot...so food names were a good choice. We lost both bunnies upon returning from the weekend away as a family. We had enlisted a friend to feed them. It seems that after feeding them 4 carrots, a head of cabbage and a bunch of spinach, they still looked hungry enough to eat again so she gave them that same meal a few hours later and they ate every leaf. It would have been enough food to last them an entire weekend so I am pretty shocked that they didn't stop when they got full, but they ate themselves to death. Rabbits are not the brightest pet, but they were good ones. Cadence solemnly watched us bury each of her furry friends. If you were here today, she would sadly tell you that "Hot Dog and Biscuit died". She would lead you by the hand to where we put them in the ground and then she would demand that you get them out so that she can play with them.