Sept. 29 - Enclosure Success!

This past summer we built a large outdoor enclosure that was used by the rabbits, guinea pigs, doves but really mostly the tortoises. We had decided that since we know that their are red tail hawks, peregrine falcons and coopers, and sharp shined hawks all living in the neighbourhood that we better be safe and put a chicken wire roof on the whole thing - we just had visions of one of our baby tortoises being scooped up and eaten!!!

Today we had two doves out there enjoying the sun when a Cooper's hawk decided to come by for a visit. The little guy tried and tried and tried to get into the enclosure and eat our two 'sitting ducks.' He tried for about 15 minutes - walking across the top, walking along the ground, all around the enclosure - before he found a sparrow that became his dinner. We thought that this amazing bird watching for the day when suddenly he came back after about half an hour, once again trying ever so hard to eat our little birdies. Although he was trying to eat our birds, this guy was truly GORGEOUS! What fantastic bird watching!!!!!

It's safe to say that we are really proud of our construction skills... And I think the doves like it too!

Sept 17 - New Arrivals are coming RIGHT NOW

I'm SO unbelievably excited. Our tailless whip scorpion is HAVING BABIES RIGHT NOW!!!

They are still emerging. They are green and white and oh so delicate. I think that we've counted about 10 or so. I hope that we can keep them alive.... I'd love to have a cute little colony going. These are MY favorite animals :)

Yolanta

September 17 - Get the carpet cleaner!

Our big female red-foot tortoise has recently learnt a new trick - how to escape from her tortoise table. At first we were not too concerned about her escaping and taking a little stroll. There really isn't too much trouble for her to get into and she is a very curious tortoise so it's good for her to peek in at her neighbours. We would just put her back in the evening and she would climb back out around mid morning after she had eaten and sat under her heat/UV lamp for a while. It was a nice routine.

Having Bella chase us around looking for attention was cute until today when we learnt why we keep her in an enclosure. Bella decided she needed to poop on the floor and this wasn't your run of the mill just-clean-it-up-with-a-damp-cloth-and-your-good-to-go poop, this was the king of poops. And the king of all poops 10 times on the carpet and stuck to the bottom of her shell and feet and all over EVERYTHING poops. It took over 10 minutes to clean these poops!

Tomorrow we'll be heading to the hardware store to buy some lumber - and rent a carpet cleaner. I wasn't prepared to clean the carpets again until my birthday in November but I'll have to suck it up as I love my animals and I love laying on my carpet and playing with them.

Sept 14 - Thank you Borden

We had a very busy (and slightly exhausting) weekend. We would like to thank all the families that invited us to share in their special days and hope that you had lots of fun.

I would personally like to send a special thank you to the lovely people at Base Borden. For the second year in a row we were invited to be part of their Family Day celebrations. The weather was fabulous - something that I wasn't really expecting. Just like last year, everyone was so welcoming, open to meeting all the animals and just really, really nice. I hope that you had as much fun as we had. I really hope to be invited back again next year... this time I'll make sure to bring the big tortoise! And maybe next year I won't get lost... again :)

Have a super Monday everyone! :)

Yolanta

Sept 11 - New PreMade Loot Bags

We've just finished making a few updates to our website, including some new premade loot bag options. Now there are a few more money and time saving options for your upcoming party.

Sept 8 - Back To School

Yes, it's that time of year again... some say that it's the most wonderful time of the year.... But whatever ever you call it, we're wishing all the students out there much success in the coming year.

Creature Quest urges every student that regardless of how challenging it may seem at times to persevere as it's all worth it in the end.

So to our own kids, Dylan and Jerad and all of the kids that worked with us this summer who are returning to their studies ( yes, that's you Allison, Agi and Nathan), all the best and believe in yourselves!

Sept 1, 2009 - New Addition

They've just arrived - 3 adorable little hedgehogs. They are still very shy and not really interested in being patted too much. We'll be working on taming them up over the next several weeks. One has been promised to Mary-Ann at Nova's Ark but the other two will be heading out to shows in the near-ish future.