FINE

Alright you perfectionists, NO, 21 minus 2 does not equal 18....but I'm not actually sure where my math/version of reality went wrong because we currently do have 18...hm. And also here is what happens to your arms when you let baby foxes play with them:


But it's ok because he is just so damn cute.
Guess how I took the picture :) go ahead, guess! Aaaaand here is another bunch of cute pictures of Charlie (sure, from LOST):

SO MANY BUNNIES

So I haven't posted in a while and here is why:

Last Thursday:

4 Bunnies
Last Friday

Two more bunnies (mixed in with previous bunnies):Last weekend while I was away

10 more bunnies:


This Tuesday

1 more bunny:

This Wednesday

5 more bunnies:

In total we have received 21 bunnies, but two died so now we only have EIGHTEEN BABY BUNNIES 0_o

Apparently this is normal for this time of year. Did you know that bunnies reproduce like.....bunnies?!

Anyway, that has kept us on our toes. Daphne (who is a boy) has now been dubbed Charlie the Fox and is still the cutest thing that ever happened. Here is some more video proof (note the move to the bigger cage and his adorable playfulness/eating my hands):

BABIES and Daphne is a boy...

So when it rains it pours and we got a baby great horned owl and a littler of 4 baby bunnies this week...although during peak baby season I hear there is a line out the door of people with babies every day. Anyway, if you didn't know, baby great horned owls look like muppets and like if you pushed them just a very little bit they would fall over:His name is Oscar I decided today. Aaaaaand here are baby bunnies so cute that it hurts:


I was thinking Flopsy, Mopsy, Cottontail and Peter (or is that too cliche?). Plus I think that's just tempting the fates for one to kick the bucket and thus leave an incomplete set, and I don't really want to have to tell people that Peter Rabbit died....Anyway, in other news: Daphne is a boy! I had a sneaking suspicion and I guess Dara must have rushed when we got him in. Melissa (another awesome volunteer and ex-intern) had come by to bring Delilah for babysitting while she is on vacation and she was holding "Daphne" while I was on the phone. I was on the phone forever with a woman asking if it was normal for deer to lie down sometimes (it is indeed) and Melissa wrote something on a post-it and put it in front of me. Thinking it would say something like "Sorry I gotta go, bye!" I read it. It said "Daphne has a penis". I then laughed accidentally to the annoyance of the woman on the phone. Anyway, Dara double checked and the fox is indeed a boy and thus in need of a new name. Any suggestions? Marissa has suggested Alphie along with the idea that the babies be named alphabetically as they arrive which I like...although I just wrecked it with Oscar....hm. Anyway, leave suggestions and also watch this video of "Daphne" being horrifically cute.

It is officially baby season!! and Henry is a Red Sox fan

On Thursday we got our first baby!! AND it was the baby animal I was most hoping to get to see: A fox kit :) It is the cutest thing I have ever seen. But pictures speak louder than words:

Sorry the quality isn't so great. My camera hasn't really been the same since Henry licked it. Anyway to make things even more ridiculously cute she also makes this little sad cry when she is hungry:



The replying squawk is the seagull behind me. I don't know what they are saying to each other but I think something is lost in translation.

More updates on her and pictures to come! I'm thinking she looks like a Daphne (my mom actually suggested that). Anyway I will close with a cute video of Henry so he knows I still love him best.

The Trouble with Gooses

Hello everyone, today was 62 degrees and it was officially too hot for me...but the animals are enjoying it. I can finally open my skylight too which is night because currently I can hear spring peepers outside....and raccoons fighting (mating?). Last week I went to Drew Thursday to speak at the grad school panel which was fun, and after Emily and I went out for drinks with Fox and Windfelder (our two favorite Drew professors) and the other graduate student Drew alum. We also got to see Windfelder's baby Maggie earlier in the day and she is still the most adorable baby I think I have ever seen :) EW I just officially found the first tick of the season on my arm! Anyway, here are some more animal photos:

Wild Turkey at dawn
Can you find 3 turkeys?*
Our lovely volunteer Marissa and Henry (I hope it's ok to post this Marisa!)
Delicious
*just kidding there are only 2 turkeys

Oh and also to make the title make sense I have a brief story; We had two geese come in from a woman who takes our geese that were having some motor skill problems. One stayed with us and the other (a domestic goose which we had no room for) went to the vet office that we work with a lot. Anyway, to make a long story short the geese got better and the domestic one was dropped off to us after being at the vet for a week or so. The first morning we had him I put him in a bucket to bathe. The bucket happened to be next to the other goose's cage. Goose number 1 went...."honk?" uppon seeing goose number 2 in the bucket. Goose number 2 went "HONK?!" uppon seeing Goos Number 1. Then they honked joyously at each other for a good 5 minutes. It was adorable. I had no idea geese would recognize each other like that. Here is Goose 2:



and a video of goose 1 in the bucket from a few days before:



I am aware the bucket is pathetically small for them, but it is generally used for the ducks aaand they are now back to their home with our goose and pigeon woman with a pond and a lot of land so they only had a few days of bucket bathing. That's all for now!