any RIGHT guesses?

Alright in the previous post i showed this picture and asked people to guess. ( I also posted the picture on facebook) I got some interesting guesses. A lot of people guess that it was an armadillo. We do have an armadillo here but it's a LOT smaller:

Along with all the crazy guesses a couple people got it right! It's and Aardvark :) here is a video of his/her parents:

any guesses???

We had a baby animal born today :) so stinking cute! It's about a hour old when this picture was taken! Any guesses as to what this animal is?

the end and the beginning

This was not a good week for the animals at TGR exotic. We had a Red Kangaroo put down and two hairy armadillos die.

We found Rachel, the Red Kangaroo, thursday morning. She smelled like death, was drooling something fierce and had a HUGE bump on her neck. We put her in a crate and took her to Texas A&M (the near-by University but it is our "vet"). I don't know if you remember but we had another Kangaroo that had a similar problem. She was also put down. Well we got to Texas A&M and we told them that if it required a long term treatment that it would be better to put her down. Rachel was an old kangaroo, 14 years old, and they usually live to 10. We didn't think she had it in her to go through treatments. So we said goodbye to Rachel and left.

The next Wednesday, yesterday, we found our two brother Hairy Armadillos dead. It was so sad. They were so cute and fun. We think they died from over heating :( We overnighted them to get a necropsy done.

But then on Saturday night we had a delivery! Two baby cappys! They are so stinking cute and make the funniest beeping noise!

This is a picture of our current female capybara, Chip! She is still growing. But it's crazy to think about how they go from being so little to getting so big!

So thus is the cycle of life at TRGE.

for the girls

I promised my sisters I would upload some pictures of Shell and Shelia for them to see. Well it took so long up loading them that I don't have time to write. So here's a post of pictures.

Really quick, for those that don't know, I am currently raising two female kangaroo joeys. Shell who is a Red Kangaroo and Shelia who is a Grey Kangaroo. They are so much fun and I love them to death :)

(click the pictures to enlarge them)

Alright in the below picture Shelia, the grey kangaroo, is the one on the ground in the pouch. Shell, the red kangaroo is standing up farther to the right. So hopefully you can use this picture to help you see which one is which in the rest of the pictures.

This is for you mom! The only picture I have with my humidity hair! The humidity curls my hair and I keep forgetting to take a picture of it. But I'll for sure get a better one before I leave

I love love this picture! whenever I can I will lay on the floor to do things because Shell and Shelia love to be near me. A lot of the time they fall asleep on me :) so so cute!

The next three pictures is a sequence of events. Whenever Shelia jumps out of her pouch she decides to go in Shell's instead of going back into her's! Don't ask me why she does it but Shell hates it

i love my little roos! it's going to be hard to leave them...

Radishes

Radishes.

Boy I hope I never pull another radish as long as I live! Monday Gwen and I spent the whole day pulling radishes! Now we didn't grow the radishes, there is a garden, "Neil's", that is about a 3 minute car drive from our house. Whenever they have produce that isn't selling they let us come and pick it. (example: in february we had a hard freeze that ruined all the lettuce they didn't pick or cover up, which was a lot. Well people don't want to eat frost bitten lettuce but all our animals loved it). They recently had too many radishes. Three rows too many. They were going to rototill them up and plant something new but they asked us if we wanted them. We said of course! So Gwen and I took on the daunting task of harvesting them. It was long, tedious, hot work but we did it. We filled her truck up TWICE and that wasn't even a whole rows worth! Needless to say it was a lot of work but all the animals loved them. They were completely gone within three days!

Now the moral of this story is when you are going to go pull radishes make sure you bring gloves!

Keep Running Kim

My friend Kimberly Nelson passed away on Thursday, March 31.

Kim was diagnosed with AML Leukemia on July 22, 2009. She battled through it and was in remission in March of 2010! But in December of that same year her cancer was back. Her body was worn out and done fighting. After three rounds of chemotherapy she fell into a coma and the next day she left us.

It was hard being in Texas and not able to be there and to

attend her funeral. But my prayers are with her family.

Having someone you know pass away really puts life into

perspective. It reminds you of the things that are important in life. It motivates me to be a better person and to live life to the fullest. To slow down, take time to notice the important things and to stop and smell the flowers.

I'll miss you Kim