i heart cute kitties

techno dogs!

splinter, our newest family member

this is splinter, our newest family member. i think he's living underneath ana's sculpture table! i saw some poop today next to the table! boo! but he's soooo cute!!!!!

i mistook it for a rat when i first saw splinter cause he's not very big at all...







note at 0:35 when i show you the cat food bag with a hole that splinter made last night cause i didn't put out food in the food tray like i normally do. so impatient!

birds of paradise

i was peacock stalking! those things are beautiful and colorful!



my latest tenants, harold and maude have had two more babies! that's four total this year!

i've named them mugatu and zoolander! enjoy!

doves 2009

harold and maude are proud to announce the arrival of sasha fierce!

i'm not sure if sasha has a sister yet... i think she just hatched very recently since i was looking at them the other day and she hadn't said hi to the world yet.

more pics hopefully before sasha spread her wings and flies away to eat worms... or whatever doves eat.

last year, harold and maude had two: vivienne and knox. i hope they're all doing well where ever they are. ;)

like two snails passing in the night....

isn't this romantic?

i walked past them while at school walking to my car. hopefully no one stepped on them.

d.i.y. project #3: kitty house

kitty house!
cost: $1.98 (two very large salad bowls @ $0.99 each)
amount of time to complete: 30 minutes with t.v.
tools: i hammered a nail through the areas i will twistie tie it. a box cutter to cut out of entrance. heavy duty tape around the edges cause it's breakable plastic.

i'm your venus... i'm your fire....

i miyagi-ed myself a fly in the house and fed it to the venus flytrap i bought several weeks ago....

the funny thing was that it closed with one of the legs sticking out.

it's so aeon flux...

opossum revisited

remember when i told you about the opossum in my attic? well thank god phillip cut off the branches that touched my house so that it wouldn't climb into the hole.

it hasn't been in there since which is good for me. i don't hear these loud screeches anymore...

we have seen a lot of giantic droppings in one corner of my backyard next to the orange and persimmon trees. so we know that giggles (my nickname for now) has been around.

well, while cleaning out the bunnies for the night, phillip points out the fact that giggles was taking its midnight stroll on the fence between my place and the neighbors's.

i grabbed my camera asap and we did some photos. of course, this scared the shite out of it i'm sure. we cut up an orange and tried to feed it. it smelled it and then it just froze, or probably played dead, on the fence. and then after about five minutes, if finally climbed down the fence and disappeared into the night.

and then the other day, saul was walking to his car to go to jack in the box to get us all iced vanilla coffees, he heard something drop from the magnolia tree in the front yard and scurry underneath his car. this scared the shite out of him and he told me that something is underneath his car. i grabbed my camera and came out as it scurried across the street and underneath a car.

this is the resulting photo i got. there were cars driving by and i was in the middle of the street.

hopefully it wasn't stealing my soul with its eyes.

fun with craigslist

it's hard for me to ever take craigslist seriously.

i was looking at free stuff and someone put up a free bunny hutch in pasadena so i emailed and we arranged to meet at her place the next day. she didn't sound crazy like previous craigslisters that ana and i have dealt with. that story will come later when i have more time.

this lady's kid's bunny died several months ago (it was old) and she was like, "i don't want keep this around.."

so phillip and i took his truck and picked up this lovely free hutch that we think is worth at least 100 bucks and also an house cage that is worth 55 bucks!

everytime i see willow mouse sitting on top of her penthouse suite... i think:

i just adore a penthouse view, darling i love you but give me park avenue!

god, zsa zsa gabor and green acres was an awesome show. i miss it so!



willow mouse as a nun eating timothy hay



thank you craigslist lady!

sadness

so there's been a big black dog spotted in my backyard. the first time i saw it was on thanksgiving morning at around 5am. i looked out my bathroom window as i normally do to look at my rabbit hutch... and in the pen that i keep the rabbits in during the daytime, there was something big and black and furry just moving around.

of course this freaked the shite out of me. and several seconds later, a giant dog... somewhere between a big labrador and giant st. bernard... goes over to the hutch and just looks at my bunnies... the bunnies were totally thumping (which is what they do when they're threatened) and i was like "AHHHHHH!"

i woke phillip up and said "there's a giant dog outside the house!!!!! and it's looking at the bunnies!!!!!!"

seriously, the dog was bigger than ana.

so phillip woke up from his sleep and the first things out of his mouth was "shit, that's a huge fucking dog."

and when it hear us, and also phillip turned on the backlight, it left.

two nights later, i heard the rabbits thumping again. so i sent phillip outside to check.

we didn't see the dog, BUT i had just cleaned out the bunny pen and so there was all this water on the ground... and THERE ARE GIANT DOG PAWS RIGHT IN FRONT OF THE HUTCH!

(picture to come)

so i've been hella scared of going outside at night now. like, if you know where i lived, you'd know that i'm alway worried that something/someone would be in my backyard. i've already found some guy in my yard once before.

so last night, i fell asleep without putting the bunnies in the hutch, so i woke up after 1am and did the hutch.

i probably finished around two. i heat them a hot water bottle to try and keep them warm in their hideaway room.

anyways... around 3am or so, i heard them thumping. so i looked out my window but i didn't see anything... but they would repeatedly thump.

i turned on the backlight and didn't see anything... but the rabbits were thumping.

so this morning when we woke up, phillip told me that everything in the turtle pond was fucked up. the plants were knocked over, the filter system was not working...

so i get out of bed and looked at the mess...

the other thing is that we have residents who live across the street from us and they are ALWAYS getting raided... so there was like, five cop cars outside... maybe a drug dealer ran into my yard...

anyways.. we saw a turtle so we're like, i'll fix it after breakfast.

when i went to start the clean up... i looked around and ALL I SAW WAS ONE TURTLE AND ONE FISH.

for those of you who don't know, I HAVE FOUR TURTLES AND FOUR GOLDFISHES...

i start freaking out. i tell phillip and saul that all i see is one turtle!!!!

so saul went outside and we FOUND ONE UNDERNEATH THE TRASH CAN HIDING!

i looked at my plants and noticed a giant bite mark as well as a claw cut into the leaf. it was that damn black dog!

so we have one healthy turtle and the turtle we found outside, is missing its right front leg. :(

sadness.

the three giant orange goldfish/coyfish are gone. there's only one white fish left.

boo.

i'm so scared to be outside by myself right now! that dog is HUGE!

so pretty

i've seen sea horses before... but i'm not sure i have ever stood there to watch them swim.

they are AMAZING! and so SURREAL!

this is the local pet store! they also have a sting ray!

i don't think this is funny at all.

okay, first off, i am NOT a member of peta. i actually don't care for their tactics. but i also don't think this is funny whatsoever. is this male machismo at its greatest? apparently everyone thought that this was funny in the locker room.

alls i know is that i ain't laughin'.


Jets locker room is 87% stinkier since Brett Favre's arrival

By MJD

That overpowering stench of death in the Jets locker room? Oh, never mind that. It's just a rotting animal carcass that Brett Favre stuffed into a bag and put in Eric Barton's locker. From The Fifth Down:

Favre is notorious for shenanigans involving lockers, and since his arrival to the Jets in August, the tradition has apparently continued. The latest victim? Barton.

Barton could not remember whether it happened last week or the week before. Nor did he know exactly what kind of dead animal Favre shot (presumably), bagged and dumped inside Barton’s locker.

Some teammates believe it was a wild turkey, but regardless, they all gathered around Barton’s locker and engaged in fits of laughter. The dead animal was inside a bag that was filled with blood and guts.

A wild turkey? That's not a bad guess. I think it was Ken O'Brien.

Whatever the unidentified murdered beast, I guess it's a good sign for the Jets. It's like that old saying ... you know you're starting to feel at ease around someone when you feel comfortable enough to kill an animal, put it in a bag, and stash it among their personal belongings. In his own special way, this is Brett fitting in.

my new roommate(s)!

so i think it's settled. there's an opossum in my attic.

i don't know how many... but there's definitely at least one! last night, around 3:30am, it sounded like there was either a struggle between two opossums or it was giving birth to baby opossums! the noise was SOOOOOO loud. i was listening to real time with bill maher and i heard it over the audio!

normally i hear just very fast scurrying.... but last night, it was calling out for it's mama!

just plain cute!

so cute!

scurrred shitless

there's something living in my attic.

i think it's either an oppossum or a rat or a squirrel.

whatever it is.. it's active in the early mornings... like around 3am to 5am ish... like it is right now... walking around above my head and scaring me.

whatever it is, i hope it doesn't die up there or have babies.

i'm scurred.

letter opener

iCat

kitten vs. frontrow from mattcoats on Vimeo.

a worthwhile 8 minutes

super hamsterio brothers