The new pets

Let me preface this by saying that our neighbor is in high school & was doing a science project all month catching bugs that would be euthanized & mounted on a display. My kids wanted to help her & caught a lot of bugs these past few weeks.
I forgot to tell them not to name the bugs & a few recieved names & a place in our home now. Let me introduce you....

This is Brownie. This photo is almost life size.

This is Stripey. He is huge. He's about four inches & he can fly from our house to our neighbors house across the street with out stopping to hop at all!

This is Grassy. Adrienne's first catch. Grassy is much smaller than the other two & behaves very well. The kids have been taking turns feeding them all fresh grass & tasty lamb's ears leaves. Yum!

People & their pets!

While on vacation we got to spend some time with various pets & their owners. This was good for the kids as we are not pet people & they seem to have picked up on that somehow. Go figure.

At Jen & Joe's we had to start out slow & put the kids behind bars . They loved it! They could watch the dogs & cat with out getting licked. By the end of our visit there, the dogs were trained to obey the kids & the kids were trained to be calm with the dogs. It was a win-win especially for some treat loving dogs. The cat got her fair share of treats too. I mean who wouldn't give treats to a cat who will sit on command.

We went to visit another friend with a dog & this time it only took a few moments for Adrienne to warm up to Cody instead of days. This kids don't remember it but Cody has been around them since they were born, so he was OK with them visiting. Barbara didn't get a chance to put Cody through his paces as we were on a time schedule but Eli remembered the see-saw from a few years ago when he got to help Cody practice his agility.

This is our idea of a pet. We have a few (3-4) hummingbirds that have been visting our backyard. We put out the food & get to watch a show every day at mealtimes. No training involved for the pet or the kids. If we ever did get a pet I think it would have to go & live with Jen or Barbara first just to get it trained. (Don't worry though, no pets are in the works!)