Strange love

This blog is about a goose but not just a goose, no this blog is about a special goose.
You see, goose like to travel and live in groups but this girl is the only goose of her breed on the petting-zoo. At first she was kind of lonely and always walked alone. Maybe she was looking for a friend or maybe just for food but she was alone. She did not have a family.

However, this girl did end up finding a friend. A friend who nobody expected (at least I did not expect this goose to find a friend like this one) and I guess you, my dear reader, did also not expect to see these two together.

The friend who this goose found is not a goose, not a chicken or a duck, no animal with wings or feathers but an animal with hooves and horns. This girl found a friend in a goat.

If the goat walks away the goose will follow her. Whenever you see the goat, the goose is not far away. This is just a very cute couple, don't you all agree?

Hummy is free again

I guess I always knew that I could never keep my little Humblebee. Hummy was a wild mouse who just needed a week longer to get used to living on her own. She was just too young to go away from her mom a week back. That is what I think anyway.

After Humblebee came home with me last tuesday she was not doing well at all, she was actually nearly dead. After some time warming up and a nice dinner she started to be herself again. These pictures are of the first day.

Then the next day she was starting to act like a wild mouse already hiding whenever I took her cage in my hands. I know it is small but it was the only place she could be in where she fit in and could not escape as long as the lid remained closed.

Over the days Humblebee started to get wilder and wilder and yesterday she actually escaped and nearly became dinner for my own kitties! That was the moment I decided she should go again, it was time to see my girl got back into the wild before she couldn't go back anymore. She obviously would never get used to living in a cage and I would not 'force' her to be a caged mice when she obviously was as wild as she could get.

Now she is in her coconut in the shed. She is safe there from wind and rain and the first couple of days she will still get a little food each day. The door is slightly open so she can leave whenever she feels ready to and tomorrow I will certainly check if she is still there and did not go back to the dying, cold little baby that she was a week ago.

She certainly came a long way from the sick and babylooking mouse on the first few pics until these pictures, don't you guys think?


Goodbye my Humblebee. It was nice knowing you but you are way better of where you belong then in a small cage for the rest of your life. Goodluck on your journeys and stay away from cats!

Some promised pics

So, I recently promised somebody some pictures, what better way to hand them over then to make a blog about it.
Get ready for some petting zoo bunnies and piggies!!

Fishy, fishy

So, unfortunally my male Platy died yesterday. He was already with me for longer then a year and he was already an adult when he came so I think he died of old age.
I already have a new male in the fishtank and he looks so much like the previous guy.

This was my old male:

And this is my new boy:

They really do look alike, don't they? The new one is a lighter shade of yellow but maybe he will darken in time. Guess I just will have to wait and see.

Do not disturb, I'm sleeping

"Mommy, that zebra, is he dead?"
Of course small children were worried, this zebra sure as hell looked dead but she was just sleeping. Luckily she was not snoring, do zebra's snore?

The younger zebra pretended not to see this one asleep and kept looking in the other direction.

Tigers

So, I guess everybody knows about the love I have for cats, right? I absolutely love the buggers that walk around here and I also adore the Tigers when I stop by the zoo once in a while. I guess it is just because Tigers are actually big cats although they certainly are not as cuddly then our feline friends are. They sure are wonderfull to look at, especially when they just got fed.
Unfortunally my camera usually zoomed in on the fence so some of the pictures are not as great as the others, still I hope you enjoy watching the pictures of these magnificent beasts as much as I  loved making them.