Pets!!!!!!!

 We got baby ducks!!!! We didn't actually get them on purpose. We were volunteering at the Caprock 5K, 10K, and a girl who lived in the house where we were stationed was telling us about her baby ducks and how if she couldn't find someone to give them to soon, she was going to throw them in the lake about 3 months early! In other words, if she threw them in the lake they wouldn't survive and so she was going to kill them! So we saved the ducks!!!

They were adorable! Really fuzzy and really cute!

Ashlyn recently got attacked by a cat, she's okay but we now make them stay in their coop at night.

We named them Ashlyn and Spencer. Ashlyn is the yellow duck, she's a Pekin. Spencer is the brown one and he's a Runner.

 Once mom came outside and found Ashlyn on her back!!! We didn't find out till  later she had slipped and she couldn't move.
She looks ridiculous!

 We found a huge box to keep them in. Spencer is in it right now.

And Ashlyn

 We found a broken pool for them, although we ended up having to buy them a new one anyway because this one was too broken to fix.

They kept trying to sleep with their heads under their tiny little wing stumps.

 Taadaa, they have feathers! For a while, they were half fluff and half feather. We didn't get any pictures of them like that.

You wouldn't know it, but ducks are not very smart. They will forget where their food is and resort to instincts like digging for bugs in the dirt and eating grass.

This is after they were in the dirt.

Ashlyn is huge Spencer is smaller, This is Juliette holding Ashlyn.

Ducks are CRAZY about peas!!! We aren't actually feeding them peas in this picture but they love peas. When we have peas they will follow us around the yard, they usually kinda run from us ( I am pretty sure they hate the "love" my siblings give them most of the time, that's why they run).

We bought them a new pool for mothers day, my mom wanted them to have a new pool.

This is the pool at its cleanest. We clean it every four days by emptying it with buckets, scrubbing the sides, rinsing it, then refilling it. It takes about 30-40 minutes with two people, we kids work in pairs and take turns.

I also got mice!! This is their cage.

This is Kailey running in the wheel.

This is Kailey too.

I originally had two mice but unfortunately Kailey's friend, Bailey died of heat stroke and I have now  replaced her with two more. I don't have pictures of the newest arrivals at the moment, sorry.
Ember (I decided not to use rhyming names for the new mice) is black with adorable big ears.
Tiger, looks like a tiger... color wise. She is the sweetest of all three mice and only ever moves half as fast. She is the only one I will pick up at the moment ( though  I am going to start punishing them with boredom in a plastic container every time they bite! The worst part is that they bite hard!!! When Kailey bites I drip blood, gross huh!) because Kailey has started biting and taught Ember.

This is Bailey before she died.













Kailey is an escape artist!!!

Tiger and Ember both look almost exactly like Kailey body shape wise; just about the only differences are the color of fur, personalities, Ember's ears :) I love them, but they do bite and they stink like crazy!!!! I call them my little stink bombs :) I clean their cage once a week, but you smell them again four days later!

Mice are also very smart, this is Kailey waiting for me to try and open the top area of the cage so she can run down the tunnel. That is her little tail in the tunnel entrance.