Super little furry animals, funny fish, clumsy frogs etc etc etc ...

Thursday 20 December 2007

Visit to a (free-range) Turkey Farm...

Nic and Moe's Turkey Farm

Thanksgiving on a Turkey Farm

No slaughter included:

Gozzi Turkey Farm

Why on earth the birds have to be dyed such ridiculous bright colours I've no idea:~

My Lil Turkey Farm

Turkeys came to Europe with the arrival of the Spanish back from South America. They've been bread in Norfolk (hence Bernard Matthews' famous Turkey Farms) since around that time. Many breeds are available. This video shows just two:

Turkeys Mating

Monday 3 December 2007

Doggie Dating!

Ha-ha!! Found this at Wayward's blog ...

Tuesday 27 November 2007

12 turns in a wheel...

Robo-revolutions, that is...

Run-off-feet Robomother

Struggling to keep her litter of babies in one place...

King Cobra

Why is it always an Aussie tormenting these poor magnificent creatures..??

Tuesday 20 November 2007

Monday 19 November 2007

Robby the Parrot's Bedtime Story...

What a bizarre-looking bird! Very pretty though. Also he/she has a remarkably quiet and nervous sounding voice for a parrot...

Tuesday 13 November 2007

Mothers of the Year (from the animal kingdom)...

Hippo and tortoise... tiger and swine ... heartwarming tales from porkcracklingland....

Owen and Mzee: Hippo and Tortoise

2 animals who found comfort together, aparently after Owen was orphaned by the tsunami of a few years ago...

They were in a zoo and do you know what the EVIL ZOOKEEPERS BROKE UP THIS RELATIONSHIP AND SEPARATED THEM because it was "not natural"... well neither is electricity but I bet you still light up your houses. Heartless BASTARDS! :-<...

Oh OK correction: they were moved to an animal park where they met ANOTHER HIPPO and made a menage a trois.

So the other thang, the EVIL ONE must have happend in Kenya's zoo.... I know this must be true because I heard so on BBC Radio and if I'd have thought it'd have made any difference I'd have written in but probably they cannot read letters in English out there anyhow as they all speak "Key-Swahili"

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Thursday 8 November 2007

Snake and Hamster

Yes... the name of the snake is a RAT snake!!

Cat and Hamster II

Cat and Hamster

From Japanese TV

Monday 29 October 2007

Giant Centipede vs Giant Spider (+Bat!)

Here's a link about five people who got bitten by centipedes and had to be given MORPHINE it's that bad...

Cat vs Scorpion

Have you ever seen anything like this?

Sunday 28 October 2007

Top Wild Dives with Tanya Streeter

She swims just like a mermaid... amazing stuff!

Tuesday 23 October 2007

Exhausted Mother Robohammy Feeding Young

That many babies! I'm not surprised she's tired...


Furry Robohammy stays still in hand shock!

"She loves to cuddle" coos the 9 year old child a cuddling the robo...


Monday 8 October 2007

Cute robohammy climbing all over hand

(they're only doing this to get out. even Spherical climbs on me like this if she thinks she will get out of a boring plastic tub!)

An itchy and a burrowing robohammy!

My roborovskis' holiday home

this film called "new hamsters in new cage" shows exactly the same set up mine live in at weekends

Wednesday 3 October 2007

Jammi Jammi

Aren't the birds beautiful?

Australian Animal Bloopers

Pinging Robbies

(Roborovski hamsters) - look how quick they are!

Roborovski Circus

I still have a zwergerie cage just like this (made by Habitrail)... I've not bothered to re-assemble it as was convinced a bit was missing (how depressing) ... But this clip is well entertaining!

Tuesday 2 October 2007

Monday 1 October 2007

Incredible Japanese sitting cat

I found this at Ariel's blog

And yes she does have "arms"; they're merely out of view in the first part of the shot


Saturday 1 September 2007

Albino African Clawed Frog Eating Earth Worm

Look how bloated this specimen is already! Any more nosh and he will seriously explode!

Albino African Clawed Frogs Gobbling Dindins

Man these things don't half stuff their faces!!

Albino African Clawed Frogs Down Under

Wow! Look at this one's deranged-looking poppy eyes!

Wednesday 29 August 2007

Sunday 26 August 2007

Girl Next Door Parakeet Teaches Budgie To Sing

Type thing

What a boring view, by the way: having to peer through those bars all the time...


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Tuesday 21 August 2007

Boris the Amazing Upside-down Hamster

More Hamster Dance

That copper coloured one does look like a miniature teddy bear

Hall of the Hamster Kings...

... with music by Grieg

Monday 20 August 2007

"My Three Robohammies"

Look just like these three:

Monday 13 August 2007

"My Malawi Chichlids"

These are some of the fish I'd like when I get the wherewithal and means to set up a sizeable tank. These like hard water (like London (dechlorinated) tapwater) and few if any plants ...

Wednesday 8 August 2007

Day-Old Bunny Rescue!

Wow I've never seen a rabbit THAT young before ...

Itchy Baby Bunny

Has he got fleas~??

Tiny Baby Bunny

Tuesday 7 August 2007

Chinchilla Brothers

"2 chinchilla brothers having their evening romp"

Rabbit Rabbit Rabbit

Soundtrack by Chas 'n' Dave (who were original English pub entertainers...)

Monday 6 August 2007

Munchkin the Cat Licking the Bag

Hmmmm

well this is just one of those mad things cats like to do ...

Sunday 5 August 2007

Roborovski Hamsters

These are the smallest, fastest and most active hamsters in the world.

They call them Robbies in Britain and Robos in America.

Have a quick peep:



Jack Rabbit Bauer in Bunny 24

AN EPISODE OF 24 ACTED BY A RABBIT. THIS IS FUNNY.

Saturday 4 August 2007

Cardinal Tetras

These are my favourite tropical fish of all time. Look at the intense blue/red colour!

Not to be confused with neon tetras, which are slightly less colourful (they have a grey bit underneath) and slightly smaller

Dust Bath Grey Chinchilla White Poodle

I don't know why this is funny but it sort of is ...

Yeah, chinchillas do look like Martian rabbits. And all tired and weary round the eyes. Did you know they need special volcanic chinchilla dust to bath in? Otherwise their fur goes horrible. Siberian dwarf hamsters need dust-baths too: but the idiot book I used as a guide never explained this. So I thought they were rolling about in the sawdust because they had fleas ...! Also, btw, once I swopped sawdust for catlitter their coats came into much better condition.

Mother Chinchilla with Babies

I always thought chinchillas looked a little like rabbits from Mars ...

Albino African Clawed Frogs

These are much bigger than the dwarf frog I had, & much stronger swimmers.

Notice they are alone in the tank. You can keep fish with them, but they need to be bigger fish (like pleccos) ~ else the fish get eaten!

Click here for a dwarf frogs link

Black Eyed Cream Hamster Climbing Attempt

"What they lack in aptitude they more than make up for in enthusiasm ..."

Thursday 2 August 2007

Backflipping Winter White Hamster

This is one of those entertaining clips of the World's Funniest Animals TV show ilk:

Have a look!

This one also comes from Japan. He says: "ハムスター中国雑技団!"

Watch the camera angle subtly change: this is not on a loop!

Sorry about the poor video ...

Friendly Japanese Chinese Hamster

チャイニーズ・ハムスター Chinese Hamster

My Chinese Mouse is the most laid-back rodent I've ever had. And he is well shy. for one thing I've yet to witness him eat anything. But he does frequently drink water out of his hamster paddling pool bowl. Which he does not swim in. He has to have a bowl as the bottle I bought him has a manufacturing defect and constantly leaks water ...

Upside Down Snacking Campbells Hamster On Piano Keys

This clip is a must-see. An absolute cracker!

Campbells hammies are just like winter whites except they come in a vaster range of colour variations. Unfortunately they are not so nice-tempered as the peaceful winter whites and can be inclined to nip you. Which I found highly annoying.

Winter White Siberian Dwarf Hamsters Upside Down Grooming

I used to have one of these and a Campbells that lived together. They are beautiful creatures. Note how fluffy their fur is - they even have furry soles to their feet for the cold Siberian ground. They do not hibernate in winter, so their fur goes white to camouflage with the snow. Winter white hamsters have the softest fur I've ever encountered on any pet of any kind. It is wonderfully luxurious and a good job that the fur trade never discovered them ...

Borneo Suckers Mating

I used to have one of these fish. They are sold as coldwater species but can live in temperatures up to 75F 22C.

Mine wasn't nearly as brightly coloured as these. She was dark green ~ variable to light green (yes she was a chamaeleon fish!) depending on mood. Also she was way flatter than these Borneos. They have a sucker-type underside (hence the name) and look like a snail when they sit on the glass in front of you. My one, Nubia, used to sleep upside down stuck to a bit of slate. The only way you could catch her was by picking up that slate. As she was the last one left in the petshop's totally empty plantless, furniture-free tank and it took them nearly half an hour to catch her. She was flying around like a piece of rapidly animated ribbon. Never in my life have I seen a fish move so fast.

Borneo suckers are also known as highland loaches

Dwarf African Aquatic Frog

I used to have one of these, except he was tiny - about ten times smaller than this one. Today I went into the fish shop and asked and aparently mine was like this: just a baby. See what an agile swimmer he is ... not!

They are fully aquatic frogs by the way and never need to come out of the water (in fact if they do hop out, so I'm told, they're really difficult to get back so you need a well covered tank). They can live peacably with little tropical fish (Siamese fighter size) and need no special tank furniture or anything. Just dried tubifex worms as food. Which they love ...

Click here for a dwarf frogs link

Freshwater Shrimp

You can buy these by the bagful as fresh goldfish food. The goldfish go nuts for them. But I kept a few and put them in with my diddy tropical fish (which were too small to eat them) and they amazingly lived peacefully on:

Black and White

Black and white rabbits ...

This clip is so cute!

Amazing Bunny Rabbit Letter Opener 兔肉開信機

The rabbit speaks Chinese, ("兔肉開信機!") aparently ...

This one's had 2.1 million hits already and no surprise!

Heidi and Moxie

These are my friend Wayward's dogs. Moxie is the little white one in front with the beard. Heidi is the tall wise looking one behind

A Big Furry Hello!

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