Piggy Sue is very house proud. The roof of her shelter is looking good. The photo’s are of our gorgeous goat Munchkin, she really wanted to help. I didn’t get any photo’s of my other helper, Squeak. Squeak is a very clever magpie, she was a good help too, she liked to pick dried paint off my hands and arms. I ended up with green footprints all up my arms. Squeak’s best friend is Lilly, our very intelligent Chihuahua, they love to play together. I will try to record it next time I am there. They are about the same size, they roll around on the floor together, it is so cute.
We have put in more perches in our Hawk Steve’s enclosure, Steve wont use them because he only has one wing. His friends who are rehabilitating will hopefully use them. We have also put perches in our new aviary for when the Morepork is ready to move in. The Morepork isn’t flying and we are hand feeding him.
We have a new bunny, his name is Griz and we got him from a pet shop. He was too aggressive to be rehomed so he came to us. He has been neuter so hopefully that will calm him down. Aggression can also be environmental, it can’t be fun living in a small cage in a pet shop.
We have been trapping wild kittens. So far we have caught 4 kittens. They have been taken to the SPCA, I saw them yesterday, they are looking really good, they have put on weight and they are inquisitive. They are still only small cute balls of fluff, only about 8 weeks old, they will be socialised and rehomed. We are still trying to catch more kittens and cats to get them desexed.
I now have some every upsetting news. We had a visiting puppy, he was a pit bull terrier, about 5-6months old. Last Thursday he attacked 3 of our beloved muscovy ducks. Cecil, Cleo and Rover. Sadly Rover didn’t make it and we have had to bury him. Cecil and Cleo have large wounds, but with some intensive caring they will hopefully make a full recovery. We have them resting inside and they are on antibiotic’s and pain relief plus Carolyn has set up a therapeutic bath full of healing goodness.
The muscovy ducks would eat bread out of our hands, they are very friendly. Cecil had a couple of very special tricks, he would jump for bread and he likes to play fetch. Carolyn got Cecil when he was just a yellow fluffy baby. Duckling don’t have a very good survival rate when they are on there own, it is best to put them with other baby ducklings. At the time we didn’t have any ducklings so Cecil grew up with baby bunnies. Cecil did so well and he loved his bunnies, I have posted a photo of Cecil and his bunnies. I love this photo, it would make the perfect picture of an Easter card.
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