Noble Gundog
and cuddly pup
Donnerstag, 15. Oktober 2009
Sonntag, 4. Oktober 2009
Piggybank
A present I made for a friend and colleague for her 30th birthday.
The real present - the money - is of course inside the pig.
The real present - the money - is of course inside the pig.
Samstag, 3. Oktober 2009
Escape
Yesterday morning I discovered a small (´bout 3 cm) , live (!) Lizard in a plastic bag of potting soil at work.
I knocked up a makeshift reptile tank from one of the fridgeboxes and took it home with me.
The plan was to put it in my old Gecko tank, which is waiting at my parents attic. As I left home at 5.30 yesterday morning and came back at 20.00 (took Heiko for a walk directly after work) I was too lazy to do anything but put the lizard in its container close to the heating and catch it a fruitfly.
This morning I realized that this was a mistake, the lizard´s gone.
"*** ! " :(
And a tipp if you´re living in germany and like C&A : this weekend their online shop charges no shipping costs.
I knocked up a makeshift reptile tank from one of the fridgeboxes and took it home with me.
The plan was to put it in my old Gecko tank, which is waiting at my parents attic. As I left home at 5.30 yesterday morning and came back at 20.00 (took Heiko for a walk directly after work) I was too lazy to do anything but put the lizard in its container close to the heating and catch it a fruitfly.
This morning I realized that this was a mistake, the lizard´s gone.
"*** ! " :(
And a tipp if you´re living in germany and like C&A : this weekend their online shop charges no shipping costs.
Donnerstag, 1. Oktober 2009
Samstag, 22. August 2009
Two new flatmates
One of them planned:
and one not:
Since Lola, my dsungarian hamster, died I´ve been wanting to get a successor. This morning I finally got round to driving to Osnabrueck´s animal shelter and had a look at their four dwarf hamsters. They
had been dumped with 4 more conspecifics in a cardboard box in may.
One of them kept screeching at me as soon as I came close to the cage. So I thought we might get along well and took her home with me :) .
Actually: she was obviously very stressed by the surroundings and I felt she had to get out of there. She is settling well into her new home, has explored the whole enclosure and has tested the wodent wheel extensively.
She´s also stopped screeching and came up to me inquisitively... so we´ll see if she´ll really turn out to be the "monster hamster" as she presented herself in the shelter.
In contrast, my second new flatmate wasn´t planned at all. This afternoon I got a call from the chairwoman of the animal protection society I´m a member of.
She told me she had been given a "white mouse" which turned out to be a baby rat. So the ritten is here for now and I´ll see what´ll become of it.
Needless to say I didn´t get round to doing any of the things I had planned for today...
and one not:
Since Lola, my dsungarian hamster, died I´ve been wanting to get a successor. This morning I finally got round to driving to Osnabrueck´s animal shelter and had a look at their four dwarf hamsters. They
had been dumped with 4 more conspecifics in a cardboard box in may.
One of them kept screeching at me as soon as I came close to the cage. So I thought we might get along well and took her home with me :) .
Actually: she was obviously very stressed by the surroundings and I felt she had to get out of there. She is settling well into her new home, has explored the whole enclosure and has tested the wodent wheel extensively.
She´s also stopped screeching and came up to me inquisitively... so we´ll see if she´ll really turn out to be the "monster hamster" as she presented herself in the shelter.
In contrast, my second new flatmate wasn´t planned at all. This afternoon I got a call from the chairwoman of the animal protection society I´m a member of.
She told me she had been given a "white mouse" which turned out to be a baby rat. So the ritten is here for now and I´ll see what´ll become of it.
Needless to say I didn´t get round to doing any of the things I had planned for today...
Mittwoch, 19. August 2009
Montag, 17. August 2009
Naked mole rats
(Heterocephalus glaber) on display in the newish underground part of Osnabrück Zoo. These animals are fascinating, especially their social structure. Interested? Naked mole rats on "the life of mammals", BBC: Videolink.
Did you know there´s another "eusocial" mole rat beside the naked one? I didn´t either... the damaraland mole rat. (Cryptomis damarensis)
Do you want a mole rat for you home ?
You can have one! Sandras mole rat figurines.
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