lilspaz68
Well-Known Member
Not long ago I get an email from the Small Animal Coordinator at the THS. She has some old girls in and was hoping that I personally would take them in myself. She told me one of the girls had a small tumour removed and she was waiting on the okay for release to the adoption floor.
I went down there, met this wonderful woman, who took over the Small Domestics department a year and a half ago, who insists on vet treatment, and surgeries if required and loves all the animals. Then I met the girls. Sadly they had been with their owner for 2 years (they are 26 months old now) but were surrendered as boys with the lovely names of Anubis and Absinthe. They had been "adopted" from a petstore, fed gerbil mix, lived in a hamster cage, never got out time, etc. Sigh. I was going to take them out of there to rehome them quietly (yes I hear the snickers!!!) but sadly they were very unsocialized and very nippy. They are improving a lot, and we will get there if time allows it. I figured this girls had every right to be cranky, especially after being called boys all their life! :lol:
On to the pics...
Just home.
Tiny thin subordinate sister Lisbet
Dominant and protective Bella...she didn't like me near her sister in the beginning
"Yo! Stay away from ma sistah or I am gonna cap you..."
Bella and her healing incision over Lisbet
This was/is their basket
Lisbet having a nap
Bella grooming, as always
First peas!
Bella's eyes are softening. Even when she was nipping/biting me she was never frightened of me, would run all over me or nap right behind my head on the couch.
And poor Lisbet is the one who gets the scratches...Bella has the most wonderful clear skin, but sweet Lisbet ends up underneath her sister all the time. She has become very sweet and likes to be stroked now.
I went down there, met this wonderful woman, who took over the Small Domestics department a year and a half ago, who insists on vet treatment, and surgeries if required and loves all the animals. Then I met the girls. Sadly they had been with their owner for 2 years (they are 26 months old now) but were surrendered as boys with the lovely names of Anubis and Absinthe. They had been "adopted" from a petstore, fed gerbil mix, lived in a hamster cage, never got out time, etc. Sigh. I was going to take them out of there to rehome them quietly (yes I hear the snickers!!!) but sadly they were very unsocialized and very nippy. They are improving a lot, and we will get there if time allows it. I figured this girls had every right to be cranky, especially after being called boys all their life! :lol:
On to the pics...
Just home.
Tiny thin subordinate sister Lisbet
Dominant and protective Bella...she didn't like me near her sister in the beginning
"Yo! Stay away from ma sistah or I am gonna cap you..."
Bella and her healing incision over Lisbet
This was/is their basket
Lisbet having a nap
Bella grooming, as always
First peas!
Bella's eyes are softening. Even when she was nipping/biting me she was never frightened of me, would run all over me or nap right behind my head on the couch.
And poor Lisbet is the one who gets the scratches...Bella has the most wonderful clear skin, but sweet Lisbet ends up underneath her sister all the time. She has become very sweet and likes to be stroked now.