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I hadn’t mentioned this, but it had been about 5 weeks since Luke (the boa) last ate.  For the first three weeks, I didn’t worry.  He had just shed, he’s a snake and it’s winter, etc.  By week 5, I was getting concerned.  Last Saturday, two days after finishing his cage, which upped the daytime […]

The snake’s been in the cage for a few months, but I’ve held off posting pictures until I finished the last little bit - the frames around the window.  But as pointed out in this comment, it would be good to get some pictures with Luke in his cage.  So, hopefully I’ll finish up the […]

I haven’t done much blogging recently, mostly, and somewhat ironically, it’s because things have been too busy to actually write about them.
Sierra’s doing well. She and Darwin are getting along great. They’ll run around the yard, the house or even the couch, if given the chance. There is much mouth fencing. […]

I haven’t posted pictures of the squirrels in quite a while. Here are some from mid-September when they got big enough to move out of the aquarium and into a wire cage…

Two or three weeks ago, we put them in the outside cage. Today we opened up the release door, […]

just heard from K - the flying squirrel didn’t make it through the night. She’s guessing that the impact of the truck caused internal bleeding.  unfortunately, there wasn’t much she could do

I haven’t put up the baby squirrels’ seven week pictures yet - I’ll do that tomorrow.  They’re getting huge (~150g each, up another 40g from last week)
Just had a guy drop off a flying squirrel to K.  Apparently, it swooped down on him at the intersection of 15-501 and Europa and he (not his fault) […]

1 week later, 30g heavier.

food coma - from 4 hours ago
feeding

Oh, and one very sad dog - feeling left out because he doesn’t get to play with the squirrels. Darwin, say “cheese”

A: baby squirrels blown out of their nest.
We’ve got two here that were brought to us yesterday. They’re just now opening their eyes, so they are probably 5 or 6 weeks old. I know squirrels are tree rats. I know they aren’t threatened or endangered. I know that there are a […]

Took the day off and spent most of it working on the snake terrarium. Watching him pace (hmm, that doesn’t seem like the right word for a snake) his cage today made me particularly sad and motivated me to get about 95% finished. He could actually move in now - the only things […]