Happy New Year!

I know we are already a week into the new year. Life has been crazy hectic. My new schedule at work is horrible - I'm still only at 32 hours but work at least 2 hours EVERY DAY OF THE WEEK.

Rats - Macree continues to age ungracefully. He will do better a couple days, then look not so good. He's been wheezing so I have him on Bayrtil and amoxy (Puck too, though the girls, Bear, Colby, and Jack are all fine). Kimber had a sucessful tumor removal (mammary). I did not have her spayed. Shocking I know, but after losing Ava the last time I decided not to. And I regret it. I already see another lump forming. She's about 22 months old. Her 13 months old daughter, Havarti, also has a lump which looks a lot like Kimbers, only today it looked smaller to me. She goes in Tuesday, it's in a different spot and I'm beginning to wonder if it's something else. Hopefully it will be but I am going to start saving to have the cheesey sisters, Stratus, and Syrma spayed anyway. It's $300 a rat and I really don't want to take that out of my ER rat fund, plus I still have 5 rabbits to fix - might take me a while. I am looking in other areas (San Diego, LA, etc) to see if it's cheaper - if it is, I can take a couple groups in and get it done sooner. I just don't want to have not as good care to save a few (hundred) dollars.

Rabbits - Bunnies are good. I told them if hay gets any more expensive they will all have to get jobs. They totally ignored me. Noah's inoperable tumor has not progressed, he's still Noah :) It's ugly and he's not the pretty bunny that earned all those gc legs anymore, but he's still doing good :)

Everyone else - Daisy, Max, Nikki, Lulu, and Molly (dogs) are all fantabulous. The big girls (Nikki and Lulu) are enjoying the huge backyard and I sometimes have a hard time getting them in the house. They have deciding eating horse poop is their favorite hobby. Joy. Penny (horse) is good, her wound healed up with no problems. Sam (bird) is Sam, never shuts up. He's the best conversationalist in the house :) The cats are good, Mia is really bald right now (my nephews have been over a lot).