the Prairie Clan pets blog

[itsazoo]

well, now that I am broke from buying dog food lol... I feed partial raw..the kibble I use on hand is Horizon, which is $46 for a 30lb bag..I then bought a 10kg box of Canisource for Ladybug because she LOVES it, and its getting sooo hard to feed her these days, and its a dehydrated raw food which is a huge plus, BUT that 10kg box costs $100. so there is $150 right there..plus I bought some canned food for Happy when she is at work with me, because she is also getting finiky in her old age and these days wont eat anything at work exept canned food, not even raw lol, if it was any of my other dogs I wouldnt care, they can stand to skip a meal, but Happy is 3lbs underweight, so after a day of running around for 8-9 hours at work, she CANNOT skip a meal! so 4 cans cost me another $12...yup I am broke from dog food lol

 

[itsazoo]

Peepers is a bad bunny. I knew she was running around, but I assumed my mom had let her out to play, then my mom called from upstairs and I knew that peepers must have gone up there, so I go up and scold my mom for leaving the gate down with Peepers out, and she looks at me and goes "huh? I thought YOU let her out!" yup, Peepers saw I was home from work, decided it was time to come out and play, so... she let herself out of her cage apperently! she is not allowed upstairs and she knows that so she was having a hayday and it took both of us to catch her..normally she is easy to get lol

 

[MiniLopHop]

LOL Peepers is quite the character. Did you figure out how she was able to let herself out? At least she waited until you were home. Good luck keeping that one under control.

 

[itsazoo]

lol I think she just wrestled with the door to her cage until the clip came loose, I added a bunch more clips! she isnt interested in hanging out my herself, thats why she waited till I was home, she likes to hang around people, often sitting on my knee, or on a chair behind me when I am at the computer.

more gerbil pics!
Pinta and Shimmer

Shimmer

schimmel baby

Champ

Shimmer

Salacia, Elizabeth and Safari

Morgan pups!

Morgan

Malcolm

Phoebe and Gumpy

Pinta's 1 eyed pup..we gotta keep an eye on this one, it make have been a fluke, but it also may be a genetic problem hiding behind Spook(import), as this was a line breeding on him.

 

[itsazoo]

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[Nela]

What a cute family!

 

[itsazoo]

well then....jenny has suddenly decided that she hates her pen. she's a free rabbit for petes sake, she is only in her 26 sq foot, 3 level pen to sleep, its opened first thing when I get up for her to have free run until I go to bed! but the other day she suddenly decided that nope, she doesnt wanna. I am having a heck of a time getting her in the pen at night, and I wake up to her litterally trying to climb out of the pen! she cant because the pen was built for Kari and she was able to climb out, so I had, had to rig the top of it. but I saw all her feet in the grids litterly climbing up like a ladder, when she couldent, she pulled her litterbox out of the strap and threw it around! I dont understand what got into her, the only thing I can think of is that she was recently spayed, so she was confined to her pen for a few days, but I dont understand why that would not manifest till 1 week AFTER being allowed out to play full time again! its not like I let things get boring, I change around all her toys and playhouses all the time, she is not the lazy type, she doesnt do well without constant stimulation lol

 

[MiniLopHop]

Have you tried giving her a little fruit if she goes back to her house when told? I bribe Becky and it works much better.

 

[itsazoo]

Jenny eats pellet free, her entire diet is hay, veggies and fruit, and she ONLY gets the veggies/fruits is at night right before bed in her pen, thats why she has always made a beeline for her pen lol but she is instead waiting outside her pen, playing evasive and wont touch the food until I leave the room lol

 

[itsazoo]

poor Penny lol, I heard this odd noise comming from the living room, thinking Peepers was up to something, I went into the LR to find Penny's cage laying sideways on the floor! the sound I heard was Rusty pulling it over..so he's not very big so when he wants something, he reaches up his paws and pulls the container onto its side so he can look better, the sound was his claws on the mesh. Penny is fine, once I righted her, she came out of her jar looking around like "WTF??" and I moved her cage lol

 

[itsazoo]

I have weird rabbits.

Jenny has taken to throwing her litter box around..its strapped in to prevent that, because apperntly she figered out how to get it out from the strap, pull out the grate and throw the box around.

Peepers is apperntly so accustomed to Happy following her everywhere that being WITHOUT Happy is just "wrong"..Happy left Peepers to come get her breakfast this morning..and Peepers followed her and just hung around Happy to the point that Happy got wierded out, picked up her chicken and walked into the bathroom to finish it lol, it was pretty funny! *no worries about the bunny hanging around the dogs eating BTW, I dont allow food guarding, and the dogs know darn well that if the bunnies are bugging them...leave. thats why Happy got up and took her chicken elsewhere.*

 

[itsazoo]

I swear we dont normally have issues with our gerbils! after so many years of rediculously good luck and nothing ever go going wrong, apperently our luck is catching up. last night Jorden and Nutty declaned, they have been best friends and inseperable for 2 YEARS, I visted then after work yesterday and they were fine, acting totally normal, attached at the hip as per usual, walked back a few minutes later and Jorden was huddled in a corner soaked in blood. after pulling him out and checking his injurys, we noticed the Nutty was also soaked in blood, so then we had to clean them up, do a bunch of cage shifting to free up 2 small tanks for hostpital tanks, get those clean and prepared, find 2 spare lamps to get heat on them etc... they seem to be doing OK though, both are eating and drinking and have the blood cleaned off themselves. Jorden is almost 4 years old and Nutty is over 2 years old, so they are not exactly youngens who easily recover from stress like that!

 

[itsazoo]

good news on the gerbil front is..Morgan and Mimas are like the best parents ever lol for a large litter(7) those pups want for nothing,Morgan doesnt even allow compitition for food, instead she takes only 2 pups at a time for feeding, and Mimas keeps the rest warm and coddled and they trade off. the pups are HUGE! lol

 

[MiniLopHop]

Oh no! I hope Nutty and Jorden are ok, that would be so frightning. Sounds like you have a wonderful line going with the babies. I'm glad they are growing well.

 

[Flash Gordon]

ooh just found ur blog and have enjoyed reading and checkin out ur pics!..what a huge well balanced family you have..i have multiple animals..dogs,cats,bunnies but they all cant live in harmony with each other and id luv nothing more then for that to happen...so its great to see hwo urs are all compatible..of course my dogs are pit mixes ..they have that serious prey drive ..i dont take any chances..looks like u spend a ton of time with all ur animals..thats awesome!..i cant even start to tell u what pics i like best cuz there are so many of them that uve taken..i do like the names R2 D2..hehe made me giggle.ill be back to visit ur blog again..

 

[itsazoo]

thanks! breed is of no differnce to me for my dogs, Ladybug is a Lurcher(sighthound X) got her as an older adult rescue and she is great with my small animals, as is Rusty, also an adult rescue and he is a JRT X. any dog can be trained, my only dog that worries me sometimes is Electra, she was the worst to break, and has to be watched a bit more.

yes my life pretty much revolves around animals, my dogs come to work with me(doggy caycare) and my mornings and evenings go to my small pets. I have a "slight" addition lol

Jorden and Nutty are doing fine, seems Jorden actually won the fight, because Nutty's worse off by far, all I could find on Jorden was a nip on his back. I find that really funny because Nutty is of of our largest boys at over 100grams, he is younger, fitter and darn near twice Jordens size, Jorden is near 4, closer to 80 grams and always so sleepy. :?

the one eyed pup of Pinta's seems to be totally blind..I have dubbed her "Pirate" lol her sister the schimmel baby has a new owner waiting for her in Edmonton, just waiting for the DEH of Chesleys to grow up and they will go together.

 

[Nela]

I love your blog :biggrin2:I love gerbils! I'm not very good with them I am afraid... Both of mine died pretty quickly I did have plastic cages at the time though. That probably played a role. Bleh.

So many gerbils! :biggrin2:I love how everyone interacts. All of mine interact as well but we only have cats, piggies, and rabbits so no big deal. I don't have dogs like you, nor smaller animals. I think it is absolutely awesome

 

[itsazoo]

more bunnies

Peepers...doesnt even have to do anything to be cute lol

and Jenny..

have I ever said she's a PIG?

food?

FOOD!!!

giimmmmeeee

gimmee NOW dammit!

 

[itsazoo]

check it out! I got rid of Jennys hay rack in favor if a hay box..O saw idea for this on Etsy, but they dont ship to canada, so I showed my mom, who's handy with wood..Jenny always much such a mess with her hay and I end up wasting a while lotta litter and hay because of it, but I put up with it for so long..because well..every hay rack I had ever seen was the same idea to what I already had lol

so...

Peepers is getting one too, but its not ready yet



this is not at all what was on Etsy BTW lol its just the hay box concept modified because I wanted it over the litter box, and my mom wanted to use up scrap wood lol

 

[Flash Gordon]

awesome hay box!!..be careful of the diameter of the holes ive heard of some curious buns getting their bodies stuck in there...or if the holes are too big they will get in it and use it as a potty box.