Pet du jour

Last week Piper and Daniels garter snakes gave birth to ten little ones.  We got to see one still in it’s sack!  I had to rescue one that had it’s ‘cord?’ tied around its tail.  We didn’t think it was gonna make it but with a magnifying glass and scalpel we were was able to free it.  His name is Crooktail.  All of them are eating worms like crazy but we will take them down to the swamp and free them soon.

This morning there was a sparrow stuck inside the bird feeder.  I brought it in and put him in a small bird cage so the kids could watch up close for a little while.  He escaped once and perched up on the ceiling fan, oops!  Piper wanted to tag him so we found a tiny, silver jump ring but it slid right off his foot.  We named him Captain Jack Sparrow and took outside to set him free.  The boys all yelled, “bye Jack”, even Kheon said bye, “ba, ja”.