Same ol' Same ol' really..

Okay, so not really. Yes, but no. Few things are different. One of our guppy females died.. :/ We have the big female in the fry net, because she's about to pop. Took Emile and Dhani out of the beta tank, and put them in a goldfish bowl. Lestat kept trying to kill them, where as Rhett wasn't too bothered by them. I will try and take good pics of them, it's just really hard getting good pics with the glare off the aquarium.

We separated all the mice! Put momma (Isis) our Russian Dwarf Hammie, in the big cage. Mnoti in the pyramid cage, all by herself, and Rasui and Shemeit in their own cages. The travel Critter Trails. Why did we do this you ask? Well, because we were tired of them all RUNNING from us when ever we walked by the cage, and or tried to take them out to play. They refuse to take food from us, and never eat in front of us.

They are scared of human contact! Who wants that in a pet?! Stupid petsmart. So, in an effort to make them less scared of us, and in turn, actually want us, we've separated them from their littermates, and put them each in their own cages. Rasui is usually pretty good when I take her out, UNLESS we have Mnoti out at the same time, who is a BIG scaredy pants, and then Rasui starts getting skittish too as a result. We are having to work on them one at a time, individually.

So far, it's working out pretty nicely. They don't run or hide as much when we try to take them out. They are more likely to venture out on their own too, when we open up the side of their cages. We aren't working on Mnoti as of yet, but we do take her out when we take the other two out and let them all play together for some time. We don't want them to forget each other, as they might wind up being in a cage to share again.

We were talking, and we've decided we want to breed mice. As well as our betas and guppies/minnows. We can breed the minnows for bait, but all our minnows are babies still. Wont even know what sex they are for another 4-5 months. O.O So, in the mean time, we have the guppies. We'll see if we can't get some buyers for the babies, and save that money and get a female crown tail beta, to mate with Lestat and Rhett, our veil tail betas.

We have no idea what we are going to do with Dhani and Emile, our goldfish. Ha. We need to save up for some more tanks, so we can put the goldies in one. I'd love to have a in ground pond out back some day. Maybe put the goldies in there, with the minnows, and have bunches of babies to sell, lol. Who knows. Never know what tomorrow will bring. Could win the lottery.

Anyway, the pics and video are from yesterday, when we took all the mice outside with us. We were on the trampoline out back, just chilling. We didn't have Mnoti out at first, but we eventually brought her out and connected Rasui and Shemeit's cages so they could run around, in and out. Which they all, but Mnoti, did. Rasui and Shemeit kept leaving the cages to run around, to us, and then back into the cages. Mnoti, as expected, stayed in side the cages.



(First pic is Shemeit, eating a pringle, lol. Second is Mnoti, sticking her nose out the tube. Rasui is behind her..because like I said, when Ras gets near Mnoti, she too decides to become skittish, or more skittish than usual. Didn't get a pic of Rasui, unfortunately. I'll take some today, as well as try and get some of the fish.)

Our Happy Family...

...even if it is small, it's perfect for us. Just want to express my love for the family that I have, here in Georgia. My family. Not necessarily blood family, but my little family that Kash and I have made for ourselves. Soon we hope to merge our family with Ann's little family she has there, but for the time being, it's just Kash and I, and our 'kids'. The babies.



They still run from us when ever we get to close to the cage, but I'm positive that over time, everything will be okay. Even more so, there will come a day where they come running up to us and asked to be taken out. It is very obvious they were not handled at ALL in PetSmart. From now on, I think we'll get any animals from small breeders, vs pet stores.



I had always heard relatively good things about PetSmart or Petco, vs. Mall Shoppes. However, we've discovered that through the purchase of these little babies, PetSmart isn't the way to go either, if you're looking for a pet, that is used to being handled, and likes to be handled. Animals such as this you need to do this from the time they are babies.



Other wise, like these three, they are scared of humans, scared of contact, scared of sounds, anything other than what they have grown up in, which would be a small five gallon tank, with bedding, a hide away and about 10 other mice. It's part of the reason we chose to get three, vs. one or two. The fact there was so many they were used to.



We didn't want to completely change their world, we were changing it enough by taking them out of that aqaurium life, and putting them in a multilevel mice cage, with multiple wheels, lots of things to play on and in, and a view. They are happy, just still very skittish. Hopefully though, things will be alright in the end.



Here are some pics that we've taken recently of them. Hope you all enjoy. Nimmo's doing well, btw.