Jeepers Creepier

Went to work today. There was a new dog and goat. The dog is a little on the obnoxious side. She barks alot. That usually goes away after they get over the shelter shock. I didn't get a chance to see the goat though. I was inside helping cut away all the hair on this angora bunny we got in, Cadbury. Poor baby was just one big mat of fur. There were plenty of bald spots on his body from the hair being pulled out from all the pressure. Which is the exact reason the people got rid of him, they didn't want to groom him.

Apparently we have new volunteers. I met them last week but was hoping it was a one time deal. I conside myself a good judge of character. Usually upon first meeting a person, I can tell whether this is a person I want to deal with or not... these people are not people I want to deal with. I hope like hell they only stick around for a few months at most. The people are VERY trashy and just give me the creeps. It's not that they're poor that makes them trashy, it's something else that I can't explain, I just feel. And one of my biggest pet peeves, is improper english. Now, I don't speak perfect english but I also don't talk like a hick either. I just don't trust either one of them. Especially, the man. He just plain makes me uncomfortable. I don't ever want to be left alone with him. He's in the process of taking anger management classes for only god knows what. I wish I could tell you what it is about these people but I just can't, it's just a feeling.

PO'd, all over my bed

Nothing much new. Going to work tomorrow, hopefully. Got some car problems and such so it's not for sure until I actually get there. The other day, one of the cats was mad at me or something and peed all over my side of the bed. Now I'm very leary about leaving my bed at all. I haven't allowed certain cats to be in the room alone unless I'm there with them. We have two males that are just reaching puberty age or around there and my guess is, it's one of the two. Fixing them usually does the trick but due to not knowing the exact age of the two, we wanted to make sure they were six months before we took them in. I attempted to file Ellie's nails today. I got to the third one and she started screaming like I was killing her so I'm going to start back at them tomorrow. Don't want to do too much to her in one day or she'll never let me touch her feet again. Well, I'm going to bed. It's been a neverending day. I didn't even get up that early, 10am and yet the day seemed to just go on and on.

The Trip

Well, we got back Saturday night around 10pm. I was too beat to write about it then or Sunday.  It was a decent drive, 5 hours. Didn't have much trouble with the directions though, thank god. We immediately went to the Equine Affair. I had no idea it would be so huge. We went to the breed pavilion and petted some of the horses but then had to damn near run to a seminar with John Lyons. I swear, I tried to be interested in what that man was saying but it was sooooo boring. It wasn't his fault, it was just a boring thing to talk about. How to make your horse stop. It lasted almost 2 hours. Immediately following that was the fresian breed demonstration. That was cool. They're beautiful horses. Afterwards, we went shopping, and shopping some more. LOL That was great. There was a lot of really cool stuff there that even non-horse people would've enjoyed. At the end of the night we went to the Phizer Fantasia. That was awesome. If you ever get a chance to see that, go. That was really neat to watch. They had so many different breeds and so many things that you just didn't know a horse was even capable of. The next morning we got up early and went straight to the Equine Affair. We looked at the expensive trailors, just so we could be like wow. Then we shopped for a few hours. Went back to the breed pavilion. We left for the Columbus Zoo at about 12:30pm. Another place you should go if you ever get a chance. It's not the best zoo I've been to but it had a lot of the animals that you wouldn't normally see at the other zoo's. It made the animal rescuer in me happy too. All the animals had the largest enclosures that I'd ever seen. I was glad to know they were fairly happy. A part of me doesn't like zoo's because I feel those animals should be free unless they otherwise can't survive in the wild, but it's unlikely that zoo's will ever change much. We left at 5, when the zoo closed and headed home.

We're Off

Well, I just thought I'd drop a quick note, reminding that today is the day we leave for Ohio.  I'll let you know how it went tomorrow night if I'm not too exhausted.  We won't be getting back till really late most likely.  Unless we decide we're going to kill eachother if we don't get home sooner. LOL

Shelter

Went to work today. We got held up by some people that wanted to visit the shelter and the animals. It's nice when people hear about us but at the same time, I just wanted to say, "Sorry, we're busy, can you come back when we're not?" At any rate, I went out in the yard and played with the dogs. One of our foster's is huge. I don't think I've EVER seen a dog his size. We have him listed as a german shepherd mix but he's much bigger than a shepherd. He makes our shepherd look like a puppy. He kept jumping on my back and clawing me to hell. Meanwhile, Sassy is nipping at my legs, leaving welts. Note to self, stay on the other side of the dog fence from now on. We were in the process of cleaning up the sticks and such when those people showed up. Guess that'll have to wait. Tomorrow, we're supposed to go pick up a horse outside of Grand Rapids, MI, that is, if we can get a horse trailer before tomorrow. We're having trouble getting in contact with the girl who's trailer we normally borrow.

Hannah seems to be doing a little bit better. I'll have to wait and see if she improves anymore. My poor little half blind gerbil. I wish there was something I could do for her.

PLEASE, visit the new sites I've added down below. Both those video's are very touching. Send them to everyone who loves animals and especially to those who don't.

Poor Hannah

I let the foster cats out for a run through the house today. I went to take a shower and do some computer stuff while they ran off all their energy. Unfortunately, they, uhem, Claireese, decided my gerbil, Hannah was a very interesting toy. She was able to get the cage open and allow Hannah to escape. By the time I found out, the cats had been out for quite some time. I had no idea whether poor Hannah was alive or dead. I put a small bowl of food on the floor and I figured, if in the next few days, some of that food was missing, then she's probably alive or we have mice. I didn't look too hard for her. It'd be like trying to find a needle in a haystack. I was bringing up some cat food for my cats, when I noticed Claireese looking across the room from her cage. There was something over there and she wished she wasn't stuck in that cage so she could get it. I quickly put on some gloves and went gerbil hunting. I eventually found her behind the tv, where the parakeet usually goes. She has some wounds to her head and I don't know if she can see out of her right eye or not. It's gunky and cloudy. I hope she'll be ok. I'm not having much luck with small animals and cats lately, that's for sure. I want to go to the shelter tomorrow but I have so much stuff to do here as well. I wanted to go today but just never got around to it. We'll have to wait and see. I'll definitely go on Wednesday. It's the "usual" day.

Bird Fair

The bird thing was really neat. I didn't think there would be that much stuff there! Tons and tons of bird toys and even a lot of birds for sale. I bought a lot of toys and I only took 30 bucks with me! Anyone who has seen the prices of bird toys at pet stores, knows that's not a lot of money for toys. I got a lot of stuff though and I got two of everything! We're having a bird toy exchange for Easter on one of my yahoo groups so that's why I bought two of everything. I got some things to keep Gollum in his cage too! So far, so good but the last time it took him a week to figure out how to get out. My friends bought three cockatiel's. The first two kind of chose them. They jumped out of the cage onto them and wouldn't get off! The third one though, I think was a pity buy. He is only two weeks old. The breeder claimed he was well over a month. Luckily we (me and my friends) KNOW birds and knew he wasn't that old. The bird isn't weaned and needs constant care. Had someone else bought him, someone that doesn't know anything about birds, he surely would've died. I hate breeders like that. There a reason you don't adopt out unweaned birds!!!! On a lighter note, I was just trying to get Ellie off of my shoulder and back into her cage and she climbed into my sleeve. I think she's decided to stay there for a while. The closer we've gotten to spring, the moodier she has gotten. Damned birdie hormones! LOL At least we're in the same mood today. I've been in a "mood" all day today. I just don't like anybody or anything they say. LOL That's all, no big deal. Today, we just sat around watching the race. Then went over to the friends house that bought the tiels, Liz and Rich. We played with the birds for a while and then played with their dogs and now I'm sitting here. This weekend is the when me and my mom go to the Equine Affair in Ohio. So I won't write for a day or so. We leave Friday morning and will be back late Saturday sometime. Until then, it's journaling as usual.