December 28

I am thinking that I started this blog as a way to divert my attention from my thesis that I am starting, but prefer to think I did it for other reasons!  It finally snowed in Indy and yesterday we dressed for the weather and went outside with the dogs to play.  Falcon loved chasing the snowballs while Hawk prefers catching them.
Today Sara and I went to the outlet mall in Edinburgh to shop.  Needless to say the pet store outlet was, as usual, the favorite.  I broke down and bought a papoose for Weasel so we can carry him around with us, as he would prefer so I am sure I will have some interesting stories about that experience soon.  I gave Sara her Christmas gift - a gummy tapeworm.  Some may find that weird, but what's a gummy tapeworm when your husbands best gift this holiday was a book on de-fleshing dead animals and the best roadkill - seriously.  There is a story behaing the tapeworm though.  For ages I have said that the ideal diet would be a tapeworm, although you would need to find a way to kill it before it ate all of you - the onbe downside.  Well, Sara's professor last semester was telling them about a diet pill with a green pill (tapeworm) and a red pill (pesticide to kill the worm).  Obviously after that class discussion, she called me to laugh about it.  Needless to say, a gummy tapeworm was a bit Christmas hit!
I think, before I get into fun or weird stories, I will intorduce the cast of characters.  We have 4 dogs.  Hawk a German Shepherd Dog age 2, Falcon a black lab age 2.5, Weasel and weiner dog age 8, and Parsley a mutt age 15.  Cat 1 is Bongo while cat 2 is Stela (3 legged).  Garcia, the iguana, has been with me since 1995 and I have had ferrets since 1999 (started with 6, we now have 11).  Many stories will revolve around this group of characters.  We also have a variety of other animals for our programs and they will be introduces as the story or situation deems necessary.  We did have a pot-bellied pig for a while and she certainly has a few stories to tell.
Next time I may regale you all with the stories of the "lost and found" Vanderbush pets!