Watching Life In Our Household

As some folks know, we have critters.

I raise rabbits and guinea pigs.   My son has discovered the joy that is mice.

Our three girls: Nick, Skitter and Baby have had a whack of baby mice.   They are starting to grow in their fur and develop their colour.  Most look to be a chestnut or beige colour, but we have some whites as well and are hoping some of the darker ones will be male.   Astonishing to us in the fact that none of them appear to be bi-coloured.

As you can see we have chestnut, hoping for black, beige and white.  At this point these are the four colours that we see.   The lad is hopeful that we can sell most as pets for $1 each, or even perhaps to a pet store for 30-50 cents each.  Time will tell.  :)  He has been fascinated watching them grow and learning how to handle them from an early age.

We have four toads that we know of that dwell in our backyard.  Barricade, Toad, Six and Fatty.   This is Toad.   The lad has been drawing pictures of them as their spots are different.   Toad was rediscovered this morning hopping through the wet grass.  He's now ensconced in our toad habitat with Barricade (as he's big enough not to get eaten).   I saw Six the other day and I haven't see Fatty for a while so hopefully he's still alive.    Toad would not hold still for the drawing of himself (excellent art by the way) so the lad asked if I could help him take a picture of him.  So I give you Toad.  :)