Really?? October already???

   WHERE ON EARTH HAS THIS YEAR WENT?????? Seriously it doesnt seem at all to me like today should be the first of October. Between Gareth and all he has going on and Homeschooling with Rhiannon it seems like we are constantly doing something.
   This week has been doubley so with Donovan gone at a class for 2 weeks, Tonya and Davids car is broke down so I am getting them around to work etc, I have had 2 job interviews and Tonya and I are starting temp jobs at the trail of fear. I am excited about that! Its going to be loads of fun, getting to run around, be nuts and scare people usually is. Its just a temp job but its always nice to have a bump in the cash flow.
    Monday was a sad day here for us. Sage, our german shepherd, had been getting worse with her anxiety issues and it had finally came to the point she was doing herself harm. The meds from the vet had quit working so we didnt have another choice and had to put her to rest. I decided no more rescue shepherds. Bad breeding, poor care by others and I end up with a broken heart after spending hundreds in vet bills. I think the goofy basset hounds are good enough. They are healthy as little tanks at least.(and rotten spoiled to boot...lol)
   Snakes.....pythons are us? I swear what is it with us and ending up with rescue animals?? First we got Fluffy who had been left with no heat source and was not a happy camper. Then came kali who came to us with a respitory infection due to improper care, we got her healthy and along came Loki who while healthy had been abandoned with a friend who raises boa constrictors. Now we have Shiva and Durga who came to us as a pair this week. I was just going to go look, I SWEAR! Then we got there, the two of them were in a screen enclosure that is not intended for snakes(no way to hold in heat), one light that was not adding enough heat for anything, no hide area, and a hot rock that could have easily damaged the snakes. To top it off they have only been being fed once a month and do to stress the female had thrown up her last rat back at the first of september and they hadnt attempted to feed her again since. Needless to say they left with us. Once they were able to warm up, they seemed to feel so much better. Shiva was so literally starved when rhiannon went to transfer her into a feeding tank to seperate her from durga she caught scent of the rats in the box and was fighting to get at them. Needless to say once it was in the tank with her it was over in seconds. Durga was nearly as bad. They will do alot better now with a two week feeding schedule, proper heat and proper care. I can no longer give Tonya shit about her herd of weasels since our reptiles outnumber her furballs.