I feel all accomplished and stuff. The litter box has been cleaned, the chinchilla and degu cages have been cleaned. The ash tray on the wood stove has been emptied and I hauled in fire wood. \o/

Although the chinchillas made a break for it when I was trying to get them back in their cage. I chased them both around the living room. Fortunately the cats were scared of them. And Rockband tried to jump into the TV screen. Which was pretty funny. And at the same time, crap now I've got to catch her again. Landing on the floor seems to stun her just enough she's then easy to recapture.

It's actually pretty nice out today so I have a couple windows open letting the wind blow threw.

Now I should probably fill out that Wal-Mart application. Or put some more stuff up on etsy. I'm probably more likely to bond with my couch for a while. And maybe eat something. I'm sort of hungry.

I feel really bad for the degus now. I just had them out to give them a bust bath. So much fun with an over weight dog standing on your foot. But anyway I realized the poor things haven't even finished shedding out their winter coats yet. I bet they liked the fact I had the ac running most of the day so it never got to hot in the trailer.

So it took two pet stores to find the right food for the degus. My bank account probably wishes I would have found it at the first one. $250 later I'm now the proud owner of a chinchilla named Lemur. The roommate came up with the name but I couldn't get her to go halfses with me.

edit: it's funny the roommate seems to be checking up on Lemur more than I am. I've gotten fur balls often enough to know that checking on them every couple minutes isn't going to help them settle in. Lemur seems to be doing well, has been investigating and everything. The roommate keeps talking about getting her a friend in a month or two. I told her that's fine if she's buying the friend. It's probably a good thing all my bills are paid for the month.

I just realized I forgot all about Squeaker's birthday last month. She's two now, which means Hephaestion is three. It hardly seems like I've owned the little fur balls that long.

Also: How many geese could a mongoose goose if a mongoose could goose geese?

Okay the cats are trying to kill each other. Mostly under my bed for some reason. I will never understand animals.

Oh and the degus are trying to kill each other over food. Like always. I guess they like the new food, because there is no way either of them actually finished all there food yet.

I have four icons that involve cars now. Go me. And this one, is the best icon ever. Thanks kitt. And I have the tape of the race now so I'll even get to see the wreck soon. Woot.

I don't have to be to work until 4, why am I even awake? Oh thats right the degus where freaking out loudly after H. got up and another girl we work with slept on the couch last night so there was noise this morning.

edit: and I turn on the TV and what should be on, but the end of Boa VS Python. Ahahahah. Navy boy still hasn't forgiven me for making him watch this.

So I got the degu cage cleaned, although I suspect they rather wish I hadn't bothered.

I'm not sure what the dog did to scar them, but she sure did. I came upstairs after putting clean shavings in the bottom of the there cage and looked into the tank I put them in when I clean the cage and well they clearly had not had a good time of it.

Hephaestion was stuck inside a toilet paper tube, and by stuck I mean wedged. She'd obviously tried to climb in it to hide, only the tube is not big enough to hold a degu. So her hind legs where sticking out the back and I could just see her nose peaking out the other end. And Squeaker who was on the other side of the tank was covered in shavings that Hephaestion had kicked up while trying to get free. If everyone hadn't clearly been so freaked out I might have taken a picture because I'll admit I laughed when I took Hephaestion out and saw the predicament up close. But I was good and just pealed the tube off of her. As soon as she was free she climbed on my shoulder and wouldn't move. After I'd calmed her down a little I realized that Squeaker still hadn't moved either, so I bushed the shavings off her and picked her up, and she joined Hephaestion on my shoulder. And they wouldn't leave. So I got to put the cage back together with them both climbing on me. As soon as the top was mostly settled on the base Squeaker jumped on top of it, Hephaestion didn't leave until I got the cage door open then she jumped inside. Fortunately the still slightly traumatized Squeaker wasn't to had to pick up and get inside the cage as well.

They seemed to have calmed down now, probably because I shut the bathroom door so they can't see the dog.

Poor girls, getting the puppy has probably been harder on them than the cat.

The only good in all of this is proof that the diet is working. Hephaestion has clearly lost weight, she was getting fat, far to fat to fit into a tube before. Plus when I was holding them I could tell she no longer weighs twice what Squeaker does.

I hope Hephaestion is okay. She fell/jumped off my shoulder when I stood up to take her back to her cage. When I turned around she was partly on the floor but with a foot up on the TV stand so I'm not sure if she just hit the floor when she landed or if she caught the TV stand as well. She seems to be okay, and is running around the cage like normal. So I'm probably worried about nothing. I don't need kids my animals give me heart attacks.

Note to self: Don't feed the degu's blackberries while they're in the glass tank.

There's blackberry juice all over the walls from them freaking out at each other thinking one's trying to steal the others berry. Plus they're now covered in juice themselves. Squeaker was trying to keep Hephaestion away from her berries so much she just kind of crammed them in her mouth whole and got berry bits stuck to her face. And they both have juice on their chests from pushing at each other with their dirty paws. Although it was cute to watch the lick the juice off the walls. Little pink degu tounges. Makes me wish I'd taken a picture.

Its kind of funny how much the degus love blackberries. They are both generally clean eaters. Give them a blackberry and its a different story. Juice all over their faces, their paws, their chests or necks. And all over the cage. Right now they are probably either trying to lick juice off the bars of the cage or chewing on the shavings that Hephaestion got juice all over.