Just a quick update, here. Those twoLop kits are doing GREAT! In and out of the nest box likethey are doing the bunny olympics! They are not realtame, as I don't have the time to play with them like I would like, butthey are far from wild, too. They come to the door ofthe cage to sniff me.
Lucy Goose hatched out 4 fuzzy goslings yesterday.Oh! But they are so cute at this stage of thegame!!! She was sitting on 6 eggs, but I'm afraid that theother two are history. Once Mama leaves the nest, there isn'tmuch chance that the remaining eggs will hatch. This is thefirst time in two years that I've had goslings, so I'm pretty excitedabout it. Have one goose (female) and two ganders (male), soam hoping that there are some females in this hatch. Geesemate for life. So there has been a lot of arguing (fighting!)between the boys! But when the hatch begins, everyone gathers around towelcome the new babies. And, they all walk around the yardtogether, protecting the little ones. When Yang, my otherfemale (She was Chinese. The 3 remaining are African.) died,everyone gathered around her just as tho they were having awake. This went on for about three days before I could removeher body.
The two baby kittens born in my middle dresser drawer are doingGREAT. Hush may get a chance to raise kittens thistime. That middle dresser drawer has been the maternity wardfor every house cat I have. No more kittens born in the housenow, tho, as Dusty and Teeger got snipped. From the looks ofthem, I would say that Teeger got in one last lucky shot before histrip to the vet. He's 1/4 Siamese, and it looks like thatcoloring came thru in the kittens.
And Bushie, skunk kit, is doing great, also. Yesterday, forhis weekly weigh-in on the post office scale, he tipped the scale at 1lb. 9/10 oz. (The postmaster is absolutely fascinated withhim, and even tho my mail box is now back up down by the road, he stillwants me to bring Bushie in once a week to get weighed.)
Aw, but I just love them all.
- Dolores
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