a picture is worth a thousand words

Hmmm -- I wonder if I can use that line "a picture is worth a thousand words" if I decide to do nanowrimo sometime???

Yesterday I went out "shopping" with my friend Crem. Neither of us needed to BUY anything, but we stopped by a local pet store to see what was available from one of the local rescue organizations.



Point of information -- my friend Crem is male.

As we were in the store I said "HEY -- now I can say I was out with you and got a sloppy kiss"

(Course, I don't think I'd ever let ANY human male kiss me the way that Oscar kissed me -- but he's soooooooooooooooo cute -- Oscar that is, not Crem).

While we were there, we were looking at the cats that were available. We found one that looked quite like my current cat. It was a GREAT plan -- my current cat is 19 years old -- she won't be around that much longer -- we'll just sneak in another black cat. Nobody will know the difference :} :}

Of course, the cat that looked like her was male -- so someone might notice that, and then there's the possibility that another cat might not spend time hiding in my bedroom. We figured it would be suspicious if there was a cat that actually started wandering around the house and talking to people. (OH -- that and a cat living to 40 might be suspect)

Another image I saw this week in the Chicago Trib ...




Honey I said I wanted you to go TO the store, TO the store, not THROUGH the store.

all creatures great and small

A few weeks ago, our family made one of our semi-annual treks to one of the fundraisers for one of our favorite organizations The Critter Corral, a guinea pig rescue.

http://www.crittercorral.org/

YES -- I said a guinea pig rescue. And yes, my sister, and my friend Crem have both informed me that Guinea Pigs are bred for food in Peru. I think they're trying to gross me out, but considering that they are prolific breeders and need very little space, this makes sense.

Actually, considering what prolific breeders they are, it goes to reason that a guinea pig rescue is needed. The thing people don't realize about the little buggers, is that they can start breeding at 6 weeks of age. So if you have brothers and sisters, or mothers and sons in the same cage ......

Another reason many guinea pigs end up in the rescue is that (being the size they are) they are very difficult to sex. Quite a few babies have ended up at the rescue simply because a pet store sold "two boys" or "two girls" and a family was surprised a few weeks later.

Yes, animal rescue is a good an honorable way to contribute, and I think that it's important to teach my children to care for others (even if "others," in this case, are rodents). And I'm glad my children "know" that animals come from rescues and not pet stores.

But let's face it -- these things are *FUN* -- just look at those pictures. I think my friend from The Family Blender will really appreciate the picture at the bottom. (Hmmmm - maybe I should have saved this post -- or at least that picture -- until New Year's Eve).