the Prairie Clan pets blog

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lets start with intros

rabbits first:

Jenny-2+ year old shelter rabbit, spayed female mixed breed. she's awsome lol

Diogieniors lil Peepers - 6 1/2 months old spayed female Dwarf Hotot, she is so sweet and curious that she wins over even the most hardend people, she is scared of nothing, andnot a mean bone in her body.

and RB Kari, my first rabbit, passed away at approx 6 years old. she was a shelter rabbit. when I first adopted her she was NASTY, I would let her out of her pen every night she was would thank me by launching out, hunting me down and attacking me. she did this every night for about 3 months before she finally started to chill out, she ended up being the sweetest bunny ever, LOVED her handled and picked up, she would run in front of me and "ask" to be picked up and cradled on her back like a baby lol

 

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the dogs next

first up is Happy, my 10 year old border collie, Happy is my baby and very talented, she knows well over 100 tricks and has trained and or competed(very succesfully) in Flyball, Agility, Disc dog, working stock, Rally Obedience etc.. Happy has come a long way, she used to be child and dog aggressive, but after several years of persistant work she now ADORES kids and has actually made kids who were terrified of dogs fall in love with her and beg their parents for a dog. the dog aggression was more challenging, but she now comes to work with me all the time at a doggy daycare and plays with everybody, no problem.

next is Misty, my 8 year old Border collie, Misty has also competed in many things..mostly same as Happy, although not as good as Happy lol Misty is a clown and a sticker dog, she is very clingy, but she is a great dog, I love her to bits

Electra is my5 year old Nova Scotia Duck Tolling Retriever...she's kinda freak lol gorgous dog and I love her, she's my cuddle bug goofball, but she is a freak..for example, depsite being bred multi purpose and many of her very close relatives activily hunting for a living, and several compting in many sports at the top of their classes..I ended up with the one dog in the family tree who doesnt retrieve, cant swim and things agility equipment is terrifying. so she is spayed, but I did show her in conformation for spaying her due to epilepsy, she did quite well at the looking pretty compition, retiring undefeated in her breed and just shy of finishing.

Rusty, JRT X, 7 years old, he's..different. I am his 3rd owner, and, entirly through fault of his own lol, he lives attached to me by leash because he thinks fighting is fun. oh he's not hurting my other dogs..see he has never WON a fight in his life, he just loves to fight and he himselfwinds up rather injured every time, you'd think he's learn, but nope! I tried to rehome him once because of this issue..it lasted all of 8 hours, before they could not stand him anymore and returned him. oh well, he has his issues but I love him anyway.

those 4

but thats not all, I also have Ladybug, I have had her for 2 years, I rescued her from the streets, she is approx 14 years old says the vet. she's not doing so well, she falls a lot, randomly "loses" limbs(standing there and suddenly she cant put weight on one of her legs) and eating is becomming an issue..she cant eat anything to big, to hard, to soft, to cold, to warm etc.. or it comes back up. she's happy though, and thats the importment thing, she is not suffering, she loves her life and is a very joyful dog.

also in the house(but not mine)are Perky and Ripley, both shelter mutts, 9 and 10 years old.

Perky

Ripley

 

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yes there ismore!

the Cockatiels

Tiovo, 6 year old pearl male

and Marley, 1 year old whiteface cinnamon pearl female

my snake, Miami 4 foot Checkered Garter snake

the steppe lemmings R2 and D2

 

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and finally, the reason for the "Prairie Clan" name we breed gerbils, currently with babies we have 97(93 grown) so there is no way I am posting pics of all lol

but here are a few:

our foundation female, Sass, she is 3 years 7 months in this pic, she will be 4 soon

Shimmer

Rodeo and Hot Toddy

Timber

Amber

Dazzle

another old man, Roo is 3 years old, he's from our second litter

L and Misa

Malcolm and Morgan. these 2 are the same colour, but Malcoms hair is so long that is comes off looking different!

thats it for now!

 

[Yield]

Wow! You have lots of pets! =O
All of them are very cute, and I can't wait to hear more about them!!

Lovin` your hotot! soooo cute =]

I've never heard of someone personally (this is sort of personally, right?) having a Nova Scotia Duck Tolling Retriever! I've heard of them though!!

I almost got a gerbil when I was a kid.. we ended up with rats instead =P

 

[itsazoo]

hehe thanks!



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and now for some pics from our brand new Nikon D3100!

Shimmer

Ariel(daughter of Dazzle)

Marley

Toivo and Marley

 

[MiniLopHop]

I love all your animals! I never thought of letting the gerbils and bunny play together. I may introduce them after Becky settles in more. You have great photos!

 

[itsazoo]

thanks!

my animals are all allowed together,well obviously not the snake with the rodents lol but she's a chicken anyway, she's touched nothing but fish in 6 months, she see's a F/T rodent and hides like its gonna kill her!

 

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this makes me miss Kari

 

[Yield]

[align=center]Oh! I love Ariel! She is soooo pretty!
Also love that pic of Jenny, Happy, and the Gerbil!!

Also- congrats on the new camera!

 

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thanks ;p the gerbil with Happy and Jenny is Dylan. I used to have 11 Guinea Pigs(many moons ago lol) the ones with Kari are Smudge and Blizzard..I think which is which is obvious! the bird with Kari is a younger Toivo.

isnt Ariel gorgous? her daddy, Dazzle was a total fluke, we bred prize(solid slate) to Bilby(minimally spotted argent cream) for convience sake..due to a mix up we were suddenly running short on time to breed her first before she was to old for a first litter, so we just grabbed Bilby..imagine our suprised when this happened:

we kept 2, Dazzle and Razzle, and crossed our fingers for a repeat of that weirdness, and thus..Ariel!

 

[Yield]

[align=center]Yep, Blizzard and Smudge are pretty obvious =]

That's awesome that you ended up with such a cool looking coloring. I've NEVER seen a gerbil colored like that!!

 

[Momto3boys]

Your pets are awesome!!! Another snake lover, WOOP WOOP! I have a corn snake and have plans for a ball python this Spring!

 

[MiniLopHop]

All of your pets are so cute! They are so well socialised together, I'm sure that took time though. The gerbils are the cutest I have ever seen! The coloring is incredible. I need to take more photos of my gang, I just get so caught up watching I forget the camera

 

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I LOVE snakes, only the smaller snakes are legal here though. , Miami is my only snake ATM, but she is my 3rd, and imported from Florida. I also used to have Jiffy, a plain garter I caught, and my first snake was an albino chekcered garter, Rook, she was the best snake ever, she loved to travel, she would wrap around my wrist like a braclet and watch the world go by, she ate from my hand..sometimes she would take her food from the ground and climb into my hand to eat it, she used to observe us just as must as we watched her, when I talked to her, she watched me and cocked her head, when I watched TV she would hang on my hand and watch TV too etc.. she made me fall in love with checkereds. unfortinatly being albino made her more sensitive and one night her heater failed, and it killed her thats why I chose a regular checkered this time around.

6wk old Rook

 

[kirbyultra]

Your pets are all so adorable, I don't even know what to say! Your hotots are really gorgeous :hearts:

 

[MiniLopHop]

What a beautiful snake, you can tell she has an outgoing personality. I'm sorry you lost her.:rip:

 

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we seem to have a suprise gerbil pup..from Munchkin and her..uhh what we THOUGHT was her daughter(and STILL looks like a female, no sign of Testes whatsoever) Minimunch. I thought I was loosing it last night when I was feeding all the gerbils and I swore I heard baby squeaking coming from their tank, so I gave a quick paw through the cage, but nothing thorough, and didnt see anything, I checked Munchkin and Minimunch and yup, they both appeared to be girls, confused I figered I was loosing my mind and left it at that. but my mom just went upstairs a few minutes ago and comes down scratching her head..she goes "Munchkin has a pup" lol, she sat up there for several minutes examining Minimunch, and there is no sign of testies, just a lrager then normal space, which doesnt mean much, as many of our females from Europe(Munchkin being one of them) have a bigger space then we are used to,but at 5 months old, the testies taking over that spaceshould be impossable to miss. Munchkin is undeniable female as Malcolm and MiniMunch are her pups lol.

 

[MiniLopHop]

wow, that is a head scratcher. There isn't any way she was pregnant before you split her up from her pups or had any visitors? Perhaps it was immaculate conception gerbil style in honor of Christmas? I would love to see a picture of the new babe.
inkelepht:

 

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no, she was split from Dylan ages ago, before MiniMunch was born to prevent another litter and Mini was a singltone pup, and MiniMunch is 5 months old now. for now we are going to assume MiniMunch is a male and and pair er.. him.. with a male and cross our finger that Mini isn't, like, both genders somehow lol if Mini is somehow both genders..then we're screwed because who do we pair him with? lol