A Little Bit Of Hepfer Happiness

After the last few weeks of life being one big fail around here, we thought it would be fun to get all of the animals out and place them on Drey's bed. Play and take pictures, laugh and enjoy the evening. I get so wrapped up in life and I forget if I've posted pictures of the guinea girls or the boy birds, so I'll introduce them as if I never did.

Leroy was thrilled to get out of his cage and hang out with civilization. Over the last several weeks, he's been what he would consider "neglected". He was fed, given fresh water daily, fresh greens, fresh timothy hay and kept in a clean cage, but he wasn't left out to roam around and claim the upstairs as his own like he usually did.

Let me tell you something, people, or anyone ever considering a bunny for a pet: a neglected bunny is sooooo much worse than a pissed off cat. Bad, bad Leroy Brown is very capable of jumping up onto the girls' bed all by himself and hanging out. The gift he left for all of us was found by Ty one night as he went to tuck the girls into bed. Not only did he poop about fifty turds on the bed, but he drenched them all with pee. Yeah. Nice.

I was about ready to enjoy some sauerkraut-stuffed bunny rabbit and then I looked into those sweet eyes on that pudgy, soft face, with those loppy ears, one of which is forever retarded, and I melted. Ah, yes....Bad, bad Leroy Brown is just that. He's bad. Baddest bunny in the whole darn house. Good thing for him is that bunny urine does not stick around like cat pee and does not destroy a house so we were able to clean it up.

I think he does miss the interaction with the cats and the dog though. He seems so lonely anymore. His whole demeanor changed the second we put him on the bed with the guinea girls. Let me introduce the guinea girls: Reese's is on the left, the smaller of the guinea pigs, cleverly named for her obvious colors of chocolate and peanut butter. She's not that sweet though, she'll take the end of your finger off in a heartbeat. Just rub her chin once.

Nibbles is the bigger one in the middle. She is an absolute sweetheart and will let anyone hold her and love on her for as long as they want. Unfortunately, we found a growth on her foot and a lump the size of a golf ball under her chin. I'm thinking it's an abscess that needs lanced and drained. I'm hoping it's an abscess that needs only that. Surgery is just too dangerous for these little critters and I really, really, REALLY don't want to lose a fourth animal in a month. Of course, Mr. Fluffy, all white and puffy, is "The" Leroy I often talk about. He behaves himself fairly well nowadays. I was really thrilled when the girls curled up on his sides and he didn't try any of his Bow-chicka-bow-wow moves on them. We added Sage's parakeets into the mix and left them on the bed for a bit. I don't have many pictures of the birds because they absolutely hated the flash on the camera. As soon as they would see me coming with it, they would fly.
Here is the parakeet boy himself, with Siren, the white parakeet, and Pary, the multi-colored parakeet. It is quite cute how the birds will do anything with Sage and are so skeptical of the rest of us. They will sit on our fingers and check us out, but they will flock to Sage like he's the man.
Here's Zoe doing a little cuddling with Nibbles while Reese's hangs out on the bed in the back.
Rylee is obviously struggling with Nibbles' size here, but it's just too cute for words. But then again, all my kids and fur babies are.

I couldn't resist taking this. It's a little off because I was laughing so hard. Those are real rabbit ears sticking up from the back of Sage's head. Drey is behind him, holding onto Leroy, but holding his loppy ears up in a way that it looked like he was being pulled out of a magician's hat, and then they posed for the picture. Leroy could have cared less.

Here's a picture of everyone together, enjoying the moment, as it didn't last too long. And yeah, those are pee spots all over the bed thanks to Reese's. Poor Drey had to strip his bed to the mattress and wash everything that evening but it was worth it.