Cute Animals
3 November 2008
Sarah, 13, likes animals. When she learned that our local Humane
Society has a Pet Pals program, she immediately wanted to sign up. Pet
Pals is a six month class that teaches kids how to do volunteer work
for the Humane Society. Sarah has graduated so now she's a Senior Pet
Pal and can do the volunteer work on her own. Her volunteer work
includes walking the dogs, giving the dogs a bath and, of course,
playing with the cats and kittens.
In addition to the Pet Pal program, we have also been signed up for the
Foster Care Program. Sarah wanted to take care of under aged cats.
The moment she signed up, she was handed a tiny kitten. The kitten was
still too young to be adopted so it's Sarah's job to feed and care for
the kitten until it gains some weight and builds its immunity. When
the kitten is old enough, she'll give it back to the Humane Society so
it can be adopted.
Emily, 9, prefers bunnies. She got her first
bunny almost four years ago. Emily tries to keep her bunnies in a cage
but occasionally they like to get out and hop around the farm. The
neighbor's below us had a girl bunny and Emily's bunny was a boy. They
became bunny friends.
One day Valerie was working in her garden when she saw a flash of white
fuzz dart under a bush. Upon further investigation, she discovered a
burrow with six baby bunnies in it. Apparently mother bunnies don't
hang around for long and these six babies were just old enough to be on
their own.
Of course our house quickly became maxed out on cuteness for the next
few weeks. It was great fun to hold and pet and raise the six little
fur balls but we didn't keep all of them. One was the runt and he died
after a few days. Three of the others were sold to the local pet store
so they could find happy homes of their own. We kept two of the baby
bunnies. Luckily they were both boys so we won't be overrun by an
explosion of baby bunnies.
In addition to bunnies and kittens, we've also had a
baby goat and piles of
baby chicks. Sarah has become quite
adept at raising chicks, maybe a little too good because we have
plenty of chickens now.
Of course there are lots of wild critters around the farm too such as
butterflies, pheasants, peacocks and pigs.
Even the baby geckos are cute. We don't have plans for any more
pets but with two little girls it's sometimes difficult to say no.
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