Recent content by Hammie

Nevermind. Definitely mites!!!

From what I've read, stress can cause mite outbreaks to go from 0-60 and can also cause quilling. How do I know the difference? One of my guys is quilling like crazy and both are itchy. We just had an cage change, so I know stress is a factor. I've never had to deal with mites or really stress...

I started a daily blog about my animals and the silly things they do. Each day is a super short, 2-3 sentence post about 1+ of my crew. It's just getting started, but I thought I'd share! http://todayatthezoo.blogspot.com/

I'm glad he's doing well! My kitty eventually lost all of her teeth through old age. Even at the age of 18 with 4 teeth left, she was the boss of the dog. Gummed her paw once when she swatted at the cat and she never went after the cat every again. 2 lb cat beat out the german shepherd :)

I'd lose my mind! I recently left everything to live with my fiancé in a college town where he is finishing school. I feel for you on meeting people. I work, but as a nanny so nothing there. Everyone in town is involved at the college or just interested in drinking and or dating and I'm set in...

The rats are big fleece eaters, so we use carefresh and paper shreds. I was thinking about securing fleece to their wheel with Velcro or something because I can't take their wheel away without decreasing quality of life. I can't remove her either because that creates too much havoc for all...

My poor little fancy rat, Minnie, has a large fatty tumor. We took her to the vet when it started out and she said not to worry about it. She's 5ish, so she probably wouldn't make it through a removal surgery and she said it would probably just come back. The problem now is that it's grown...

It seems I may be getting a dog. My fiance is a dog trainer and has a "student' in one of his classes who is going to be abandoned. The family realized they just can't care for a puppy. She's a 12 week old husky named sable. Kelvin came to me with his puppy dog eyes last night and asked if...

I eat a similar diet. I do allow potatoes and yeast. I eat a lot of rice pastas. Chebe makes products made from tapioca that are all dairy free with substitution in recipes. There's a crock pot blog called crockpot365.blogspot.com. All of her recipes are gluten free. Not sure about the...

How wonderful!!!! Congrats!!!

Thank you all! I feel so blessed right now! :)

My boy proposed this weekend!!!!! We've been working on moving in together and I knew it was coming because I'm kinda old fashioned and wanted some type of commitment before moving in (the old why buy the cow, theory), but I thought it would happen at my college graduation NEXT weekend. I was...

One suggestion I have that doesn't address either condition directly is mommy-son dates and daddy-son dates. My parents saw a counselor once to improve their relationships with us and she suggested taking each of us out on a special "date" once every certain amount of time (ours was every other...

Very cool! She's so pretty.

I don't know about the ones from Kroger but I found this one the other day and might try it with my students after thanksgiving since it's simple and sounds delicious. http://blog.superhealthykids.com/2011/11/healthy-lunch-box-turkey-wrap/