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The following pictures are of my more recent pets. :-)
Meet the Goldfish Lippy, Noname and Speckle (the Shebunkin). The reason why the tank is so cloudy is that it is in the process
of cleaning the HORRENDOUS algae problem I had. My old filter stopped working and when I went to replace it, I discovered
the mice in the apartment had stripped the Air Pump's cord right to the copper. UGH! The poor Goldfish went without a Filter
for Two Months (screeeaaam!!). The good news is that the new filter has done its job and the tank is almost pristine as of
this writing. I'll have to photograph it to show how good it's looking now!!
Meet my lone Guppy. He has no name but he's a survivor! Out of the 20-some guppies I had (Destined to be what else..FEEDER
GUPPIES!!), he is the only one to survive the ever hungry Goldfish Monsters!! He, too, survived the horrendous 2 months without
a filter. He's hard to see, but he's there at the Tank's water line. He likes to float at the top of the tank and hide in
the plastic plants I have to protect him.
This is a picture of some of my cockatiels. Bones, the Lutino (the white bird), went to a new home in June 2004. I am in the
process of narrowing down my pets in order to devote more energy to my hobby breeding. Sling Shot, the Pearl (the spotted
grey) and Sling's mate, Sky Dive are being retired. I'm retiring them because the Pearl is a chronic egglayer and does **NOT**
know when to stop! As long as they're caged, they're okay. As soon as there's even the slightest dark corner, they begin to
mate and pump out eggs while ignoring their chicks. I figured it was best to start over than tempt fate.
These are two of my four budgies. Paint Tube is on the left. She's the youngest of the bunch. My Girl, on the right, is my
first rescue. Her owner was moving to another provence and she couldn't bring this charmer with her.
Buzzsaw is my second oldest budgie, but I've owned her the longest. She's pushing 2 and a half years in age. She's also a
chronic egg layer. This summer alone she's given me 3 clutches! **screams!!!** She likes to crawl into my portfolio (a converted
dresser) and chew up my artwok for her eggs. It's stopped since I've kept her in her cage all the time. I have her and the
other budgies in a large cockatiel cage so they have room to fly.
Meet B'Z (pronounced Bee Zee). He's the lone male in my budgie collection. He's bossy, bold and very intellegent. Unfortunately
he gets bullied a lot by the girls :-P
This is Octane. She's a normal grey split to Pied. That means she's a grey bird, but If I breed her, her babies with be patchy,
like a cow. :-) She's going to a new home soon.
This is Mindwipe. She's one of my handfed Tiels. She's a real friendly girl who runs to everybody. Judy Crowder of the Parrot
Club of Manitoba bred her and WOW did she ever do a good job :-D !! I hope to breed this girl to either Goldfinger or Redshift.
These are Goldfinger's parents. Goldfinger is their first son and the only chick to live longer than 3 weeks. He's over a
year old. Sling Shot is the pearl female (the spotted one) and Sky Dive is the normal grey male. I will be retiring them as
breeders this summer.
Goldfinger. Oh..how can I describe him? He's loud, obnoxious but lovable. He's not handtame, but he sure likes to make his
intentions known!! He's fallen for Mindwipe, though she's not very interested in him. The cage he and the other tiels are
in is my holding cage. For several years all the birds had free rein in the studio, but it got too hard to clean up after
them constantly. Cages are MUCH easier to keep organized!! I am looking to have someone build me a small indoor aviary so
the tiels will have more room to be obnoxious. :-)
This is Redshift, my first handfed Male cockatiel. He's split to whiteface, which means if I pair him up to a cockatiel hen
with a completely white face, he will produce more babies with no colour on their head.
This is Moonie, my Peach Front Conure. He was my first conure. He met an untimely demise in the middle of June, 2004 due to
unknow causes. He was only 1 year and 8 months old. I miss him dearly and eventually I would like to get another Peachie.
Things have been too quiet without him.
Anpu-Ra was a kitten I had for a total of two months. On July 11th, 2004 she managed to crawl out of the harness she was in
AND the carrying bag (which was zippered close). Some neighborhood kids found her and have been lying to me that they have
her.
This is Anpu-Ra's clone. Two days after I lost Anpu, the humane Society phoned and said they found this kitten, who they said
might be the girl I lost. The kitten turned out to be a close clone, but no cigar :-P I decided to keep her and she now goes
under the name Countess Upna Carmilla. Believe me..she lives up to her name!!
Red Prowl finally passed away in Mid June 2004 due to old age. He was, by far, my oldest rat at 3 and a half years. He was
a loner in his old age, though when he first came home he had 2 other cage mates. He was bold, bossy but was lovable as long
as you didn't pick him up!
Here's Feival lounging with one of the neighborhood kids. He's my first Dumbo rat and in theory, he's my sweetest boy. However,
the past few weeks he's developed a reputaion for biting and NOT LETTING GO anything that he can grab through the bars of
the cage. My two cats learned that the hard way!
This is Spazz (err.. I mean Spazzamundi, pronounced Spazz-ah-moon-dee) who is Feival's room mate. Spazz is sweet, friendly
but he's not hot on being picked up. He's eager to move around and get into trouble, but he's not as bad as my girls!!
This is a terrible picture of Moonracer, but what the heck :-P Moonracer is a standard fawn doe and she's the oldest of my
mooks. She's playful and bossy, but she loves a good scratch now and again.
Yes, Charlotte is hairless rat. She's my second oldest girl. She's the nosey one. She's also the most comfortable in the summer
heat :-P She's my third hairless rat and the only one to live longer than 2 months under my care. She love to nip, but so
far she's never bitten. I tried to breed her but she never 'took', but in a way I'm glad as hairless does have sooo many problems
when raising their young!
Blackberry is my second youngest doe. She's a Dumbo black hooded and boy..I **LOVE** her to pieces! Unfortunately she's got
respitory problems so I can't breed her. Every single rat I have ever owned has come down with some sort of lung problem.
It's probably because so many pet stores don't take their rodents' health as seriously as they do their birds, cats and dogs.
Sad but true in many cases.
Jump is the youngest of my females and one of the most determind. She loves food (what rat doesn't?) and is among the many
who steals paper to stuff in her nest box! She is a standard Agouti and, like Blackberry, she has bad respitory problems.
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