Critters

A friend of mine recently commented on all my animal posts on Facebook recently, and I realized that we really have had a whole lot of extra creatures living in the house over the past month and a half.  

For starters, we had 13 ducklings living in the kitchen during the month of March.  Seven of them we kept and are now living in the coop outside with the four adults.  Six we sold to the young man who babysits all of our critters when we go away.  He lost his duck last summer.  While I knew we could not keep all of the ducks, selling ducklings that were only a few days old was really hard.  They were cute and had imprinted on us, and I fell in love with all of them.  

Next my husband decided to save a male rabbit from a college student (don't ask).  While Finn is soft and incredibly social, we already had a female rabbit who lives in the house(rabbits of the opposite sex together, bad idea).  Thankfully she is quite content staying in her cage and as far away from him as possible. He, on the other hand, is trying to desperately chew down the door to the mud room. He also does not like to be contained and goes crazy when he is locked up in his cage at night. Needless to say, I have done some research around local vets and will be setting up an appointment for him on Monday to insure we don't double the rabbit population in our house.  

Then we had a a temporary visitor for a little over a week.  We babysat a friend's puppy (the rabbits were not happy) while she was away visiting family.  It was like having a toddler in the house all over again. While she was really cute and increased my fitness level, I have to admit I am not ready for a puppy. I would be happy to babysit again, but it is nice to have the house back to normal (I say this as there is a rabbit frantically running circles around my chair trying to get my attention).  

For now, I think all the critters and in their places and life can hopefully get back to normal, at least until the chicks arrive.  OK.. there really is not 'normal' at our house.