Let the Christmas preparation begin! (with a little sugar glider joey cuteness on the side)

LaVaughn and I had to go to town yesterday even, mainly to get Zyrtec (for her), and that was all. Well 2 hours and $100 later I was left thinking, "What the hell!?"

It's so amazing how fast things add up, especially when you never even planned on buying them in the first place. The Frontline was what was so expensive, which wasn't even THAT bad. We have to buy the biggest size for Milla, but that's because she's a big girl. We also got other odds and ends that we needed, but another gift for Aunt Sharon and, wait for it... wrapping paper!!

There is just something about buying Christmas paper that I love! And the gifts, oh how I love to wrap gifts! I'm not one to listen to Christmas music or anything like that -- I'm not even keen on decorating -- I just like the gift wrapping. Ask my aunt, I always agree to wrap her things for her. She hates it anymore and I get enjoyment out of it, so why not. Same goes for my uncle.

I want to wrap things tonight, but we have to sew Doug and Kyan's set, clean the rat cage, clean the drop trays, vacuum, fix dinner, feed the cats, feed the dog, and probably more. So I'm going to push the gift wrapping off until like, Wed., which is also LaVaughn's birthday.

Aside from spreading the Christmas cheer today, I also have photos of Charli and Tyler's little boy to share. Have I mentioned how much I love him?? He's just the cutest and sweetest little dumpling! I wish all of our joeys were like him.

I'm trying to savor as much as I can with these joeys, cause I know our breeding days are coming to an end. The market has gone downhill so much over the past year, it's almost impossible to sell them. And when you only breed for color (mosaics, plats, leus), you don't sell as many because locals that just want a couple pets wont buy them.

I think we "give away" more than we sell anymore. Tracy's getting Fili, Cindy got Petra, and I'm contemplating letting Doug have Zac, but I guess I need to wait and see if anyone wants him first. At least I know that they'll be cared for properly within our small group of glider friends.

I believe that's all for now. I think I just heard UPS dropping off more of the Christmas stuff we ordered!

Love & Peace

-Megan

Just look at that gorgeous paper! And 30 feet of it!

And... it's reversible!!

Now for pictures of the cutest sugar glider joey ever, Zac:

Time for another vet visit...

We had to take our cat, Esther, to the vet today. She's been sneezing and hacking like crazy lately and last night, she was much worse and has stopped eating and drinking - that's when we started worrying.

We didn't have to wait long when we got there before we were called back to the room. The vet looker her over and said that she probably had some type of upper respiratory infection - which we figured. The vet also decided to run a Feluke test, just to rule it out. And thankfully... it came back negative! So yay! After that, she prescribed her some antibiotics and told us to giver her 5mg of generic Zyrtec for 5 days to help with her nasal issues and that was about it.

Since the vet that we saw was new, LaVaughn decided to ask her if she would treat sugar gliders. And... she said yes!! She's only ever seen one sugar glider before, but she's willing to learn and has actually done a neuter before! She also said she could do our fecals and everything! We were seriously stoked, lol.

Well, I suppose that's all for now. Time to go give Miss Esther her meds. Until next time...

Love & Peace

-Megan

Song of the day: Good Times Bad Times by Zeppelin

Here are the pics of Esther at the vet's office:

 Look at those crazy eyes!

You can just tell from her expression that she doesn't want to be there.

Yeah, so if you're animals are infested with fleas... be prepared to pay for Frontline!

Her Clavamox... don't you just love that price tag?

What black and silver and fuzzie all over?

If you guessed a black and silver German Shepherd puppy, then you're right! Oh man, where do I start? About a week or so ago I was looking at some pet classifieds and came across a German Shepherd breeder that lived right here in Piedmont. And for those of you who don't know where Piedmont is, it's like 12 miles away from where we live. Anyway, I emailed her and told her how beautiful her puppies where and that we lived like 15 minutes away from her. After that, we kind of hit it off and talked about sugar gliders, which she was very interested in. Then night before last, we get and email from her saying that she had a little female puppy with a floppy ear that she was going to adopt out for free. Yes, FREE! We thought we were going to die, lol. I emailed her back and she emailed back and said to call her, so LaVaughn did. She ended up asking if we could come out and look at her today, so we did.

When we got there, we saw LOADS of German Shepherds all over the place. Not just out running around, they were in kennels. When the lady got there, she said she was going to go inside and get her. After she came out of her house, about 12 puppies came running out. Of course, LaVaughn spotted the one that we were there to see. And oh man, she is cute! It didn't take too long for us to decide that we would take her. But come on, who wouldn't take a free full blooded German Shepherd puppy? Then the lady asked if we wanted to go to town for about 20 minutes so that she could give her a bath and get her ready. Well, we did and then came back and got her.

I just can't believe how nice the lady was. She sent loads of stuff home with the puppy. Like: a big bag of food, a new toy, a collar, a leash, worm meds, frontline (for this month) and chew toys (like pig ears) for her and Milla. It's just all kind of unbelievable. Oh yeah, we've decided to name her, Mischa. So now we have two beautiful German Shepherds named, Milla & Mischa. So awesome!

Anyway, I guess that's all for now. Time to start potty training...

Love & Peace

-Megan

Song of the day: Hey Stoopid by Alice Cooper

Here's she is!

Seriously adorable...

To Fredericktown and back...

It seems like as the weather gets colder, the fleas start multiplying. I guess they hitch a ride in on Milla and nest in our nice, warm environment... bastards. So that's pretty much what inspired the trip, we just needed some Frontline.

When I went in, there were only two other people in there and they left like 10 seconds later. I walked up to the counter and told the lady what I needed (which was 2 cat and 1 dog). Then she was like, "For $10 more you could get a 3 pack cat and a free one." I replied, "Why not." So, the grand total for 4 cat Frontline doses and 1 dog was... $62. Not too bad if you ask me. Now next month, we'll only have to buy Milla's.

After that, I had to run in Walmart and pick up a few things then we headed home. Nothing super exciting or anything, just a drive.

Well, I guess that's all for now. Until next time, you know where to find me...

Love & Peace

-Megan

Song of the day: Seven Drunken Nights by The Dubliners

Here's some photos from today:

 Nice to know that LaVaughn harasses people when she's alone in the car, lol.

 And apparently, she was listening to KGMO. The best classic rock station around.

 Here's a nice shot of St. Francis river.

 Our 4 doses of cat Frontline.

 And our giant dose of XXL dog Frontline.

 We've got the calendar marked and everything, haha!

 Some new cat food that we got for the girls. They seem to love it.

And last, but not least, some blank DVDs. Still don't know what LaVaughn wanted with these.

Just what the doctor ordered...

Hey again. I know, two blogs in one week. What ever will we do? Well anyway, yesterday we had to go to our vet and pick up a few things for our animals. And what were those few thing? Well listen up and I'll tell you. First, it's our annual "Attack the animals with Frontline day". I know, very cheesy what I just said, oh well. We try to do this every month, but come one, we're only human. And I have to say, the stuff does wonders. I recommend it to any and all. Luckily, our vet lets us buy them in single doses. I have to say, it's a tad more expensive then getting the 3 month deal, but who has the money? Aside from that, we got some de-wormer meds. Cause I'm sure most of you know, you can't have one without the other. When cats eat fleas, it gives them worms. So we try to do both at the same time.

Other than getting meds, we didn't do much else. Oh wait, yes we did. We went to the store and got some material so that we could make some new glider bonding pouches. Hopefully we get around to that tonight or tomorrow. Who knows. We also stopped and a mini farmer's market and grabbed some tomatoes. And they were yummy. Tomatoes never last more than a day or two at our house, lol. They're just too good.

Well, I guess that's all for now. Hope you enjoyed it. That's is if you're no in shock from the multiple blogs this week, lol. Well, until next time my lovely readers. You know what to do with yourselves until then (besides crying about not having a new blog to read). Peace out and rock hard...

-Megan

Song of the day: Ramble On by Led Zeppelin



This was what poor Milla had to ingest. She hated it so much, but she took it like a pro...

The three doses of Frontline...

This was the pill packet for the cats. Oona only had to take one, but Zoe had to take one and a half...

A beautiful side portrait of Milla...

Another gorgeous one...