kaetzchen

wow. remember that pic of the hole ichigo chewed out from under her arm??? well i know exactly what happned now. when i left for ohio it was pretty much healed up. when i came back here, a huge tumor had grown in its place. i noticed yesterday that even tho it wasnt hurting her, it was still getting in her way it was so big. i wanted to take her to the vet to have it removed but just cant afford it. well now i dont have to. its gone. she chewed at it til it was all gone. yet again there is no blood, she seems to be in no pain, and she is keeping it very clean. so what had seemed to be an irritated nipple from nursing her little was the forming of the tumor. i already knew it was very common for rats to get benign tumors, but i had no idea that they would chew them off. im amazed by this and im glad that she is taking care of herself when i cant. she also seems to not be viscious with me anymore, as long as its not feeding time! its also hard to spend time with all her kids individually to get them used to human interaction.

i was watching animal planet the other day and the best of pet star was on. i saw some pretty neat tricks. but what blew me away the most was a dog that could count all on her own! you could ask her any simple addition, subtraction, or multiplication problem and she would gently pat her answer on the ground. amazing i say!!! there was also a mini horse that would answer in the same way after seeing two dice rolled, adding them up. so cool! oh and after throwing a ton of change on the floor, there was a dog that would pick out the state quarter of your choice! god i love animals!!!

the toads are starting to come back out. and i just heard a bat in my neighbors tree.

i feel very sick right now. i need some ginger ale really bad!