Snoes

Maybe you remember the blogpost about the mystery black and white cat on the petting zoo. If not, here's the link to: Who are you?

The strange cat was at the petting zoo for 2 weeks before he was captured. The animal was hungry and very light. He obviously had lost a lot of weight when he was walking around lost.

Now I have the answers to the questions in that other post. His name is Pip but before his owner was found we started to call him Snoes so that is still his name now. He had been missing for about a month and didn't even really live that far away from the petting zoo. His owners had even looked for him in the park but hadn't found him back then.
It appears he came from the shelter in first place. He had been pretty old back then and that was six years ago. He is about 14 maybe even 15 years old now.
His owner was very shocked when she saw how skinny he was.

But eventhough his owner is found he still lives on the petting zoo. She thought it was better if he stayed since he likes going outside and with her he is not able to go outside. He's a sweety, yesterday afternoon he spend the whole time outside, walking to the visitors, cuddling with the kids, making people fall for his sweetness and cuteness and meeting some new animals.

These pictures are taken between Easter and today.

Balou is here!

Today my pregnant guinea-pig (pregnant from her brother unfortunally....) decided to give birth right when I was watching.
First a beautiful white and black girl was born and second a three colored boy was born. The second one was smaller but that was only good because unfortunally the big female died not long after she was born. It is possible she got alot of fluid in her lungs because maybe, because she was so big, it took too long before she was born.

I named the little boy Balou since I name the babies born here alphabetical, Gina's sons both had a name starting with a A and now Katie's boy had to have a name starting with a B.

Anyway, here are the little ones!

First when they were just born it were two of them.

And these were taken later today after the female died.

Rest In Peace Zinzi

So, if you came here because you know me on twitter you have already heard the news of my beloved Teddy Widder female Zinzi's death.
Unfortunally this death was way too early, the poor bunnygirl had not even reached the age of 10 months yet.

I am still not sure what caused her death. Somebody I know said that maybe she had a problem with her little heart some defect she was born with, one good scare and that was it. I think that is probably the best explanation I've heard. All I know is that two hours before her death she was fine, she was happily eating a small piece of tomato and two hours later there was a scared squeeck and when I picked her up she was cold, her lips were blue and before I could even get my coat and shoes on for a trip to the vet she died in my arms.

I'll never forget Zinzi, never forget all the times where she hopped away from me when she knew it was time to be brushed, all the times where she laid next to me together with her friend Sunny when the brush was nowhere to be seen. Zinzi will forever hold a place in my heart but at least I know she is safe now, she is with my other girls and boys who already passed away and I know at least Selena and Babs will take very good care of her somewhere on the green fields near the rainbowbridge.

The day I got her she couldn't see a thing because of the hair falling infront of her eyes.

 So the next day I cut the hair on her head

 Sunny adored her big sis

 Pretty blue eyes

 They were so close

 A nice meal together about a month back

Ancistrus dolichopterus eggs

It happened! For a couple of weeks now my male Ancistrus was swimming after the female so I kind of expected eggs from them. Still when the male wouldn't come out of his hidingplace in the piece of wood in the fishtank yesterday I wondered what he was doing. I decided to take a picture of him in it and what did I see on the picture? The space in the wood where he sat was filled with orange eggs! Of course I kept a close eye on him the rest of the day and when he decided to get out of his hidingplace for a minute I quickly made some pictures of the eggs. There are alot of them! I hope at least some will grow up.

The pictures:

Mommy and daddy fish (sorry for the filthy window....)

 First picture I took, see those eggs?

 And when he was away for a moment

 There dad is again, guarding his eggs.

Oxi

There is a new Guinea-pig on the petting zoo, she is a purebreed and her breed is called Coronet. Her name is Oxi, 1 month old, and of course I took some pictures of her. Isn't she adorable?

Easter Celebration pics

These pictures were made on the petting zoo today. There was a easter celebration and eventhough the weather sucked there were alot of people there! It was a fun afternoon!!

 My easterroosters. Some kids really believed they were the ones laying the chocolate eggs!

 cuddling with the bunnies

Also, today was the day the new cage for the rabbits was officially opened.

 Also, the name of the new pig was announced today!!

 These kids had made up the names in the final, 3 names but the pig could only have 1 of course!

 And this is the winner of the contest. He made up the name for the new pig!