| This is Tidbit. David got her about 12 years ago while we were dating. She's an Australian Cattle Dog, or Blue Heeler. |
| This is Crystal's baby, Pugsley. She is about 10 years old, and is a Pug/Shih Tzu mix. We got her only weeks before Jon David was born and they have grown up together. They act just like human siblings! |
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| Above is Sammy. He is about 5 years old. We got him from the pound as a gift to Jon David and Sean who had been begging for a kitty to love and also as a mouse catcher for our last house in Alabama. With the help of a trap, he caught one, but then had no clue what to do with it! He was quite the sight carrying that mouse around the house! |
| This is the slider turtle we keep in an aquarium in the dining room. We got it as a hatchling (about the size of a quarter, and in about 3 years time it had grown to the size of Crystal's hand! It is now about 5 years old and is as big as David's hand and will likely soon outgrow her 55 gallon aquarium. The photo on the left is the turtle's home and the photo on the right shows more of a close up. She's quite the showman, begging for food whenever we walk by her aquarium and pretending to like humans, but does not tolerate being handled at all. |
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| We also have a 54 gallon freshwater aquarium full of finned babies, a 10 gallon aquarium with mom's Goldfish and 3 betta aquariums: one in the girls' room, one in Jon David's room, and one for mommy. There is also an aquarium in Sean and Alex's room that houses 4 Fire-bellied Toads as well as an aquarium/terrarium housing 2 green anoles. Maybe I can get photos of them up soon, too. |
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| Rosie was given to our family by a very kind gentleman who used to raise Dachshunds. Rosie's mom got away and met up with a handsome Yorkie down the road and Rosie was her only baby from the pairing. Sean had always wanted a "weiner" dog and he now has one. She is about 1 year old. |
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| Patches is our resident nutjob. She sleeps in poses similar to this nearly all the time leaving us to wonder if she is truly ok or not. She is approximately 1 1/2 years old and is a bobtail calico. |
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| Tiger and Socks are our newest furbabies. They were discovered at an Animal Shelter in a little town about an hour from Knoxville during a "Field Trip" over the kids' Fall Break. Crystal took the kids to try to find a Newspaper Museum, got lost and happened upon the shelter. Tiger has a broken tail and a raspy mew that just begged for a home. Socks looks so much like Crystal's beloved "Pepper" that she was almost assured a home with us. After some discussion and trying to decide between the 2, both were brought home and became a part of the family. Tiger is about 6 weeks older than Socks and they were neither siblings nor litter mates, but get along great and have been accepted by the others as part of the family now as well. (It's still a bit rocky with Patches, though and the kittens are not really happy about sharing the home with Tidbit.) |