Animals, animals, animals

We have a few animals around here.  The number fluctuates depending on what is sold, what is born and what dies.  The kids love the animals that fit in their laps (or used to).

This is Stripes.  She is a 2nd generation cat in our family.  

This is one of her kittens, Potato Chips.  He is such a sweet cat and has a little raspy purr.  We really should find him a new home, but we aren't that motivated.  His sister is a tiny copy of their mother.  They are both very calm and friendly kitties.  Unless you are a mouse. 

We sold all of our sheep this summer.  It was too much responsibility for me, even though at this point they were taking care of themselves.  I was thinking ahead to winter and didn't want to worry about all of that.

This is Molly, on her last day as a member of our family.  She was terrorizing the farm a little and needed a home where she could get more human attention.  An older (than me) couple took her about a month and a half ago.  Leah sobbed.  She'd become much more attached to Molly than I'd realized.  She's OK now.

As part of the deal that we could find Molly a new home, we got a new puppy for Leah to attach herself to.  (No one else around here is as much an animals person as Leah!)

This little puppy is Lucky.  She is technically Daniel's dog.  We had her first and knew that she had a sister still available.  She was anxious to meet Molly.

But I think she was happy to be reunited with her sister.  They were only separated for two days, so it wasn't a huge reunion.  They had already grown a bit in these pictures.

Meet Georgia.

 Here they are two months later.  When will they stop growing?  They are growing SO fast!  They are about 15 weeks old now.  We had to buy choke collars so that Leah could handle Georgia.  That is one strong pup!

We set up this kennel for them yesterday, got them off the grass and are using the house as a weather shield. We had to steal it from the chickens though and will have to put up something to contain the birds soon.

I've heard some specific meowing/crying late at night for the past week.  I'm sure we'll be dealing with more kittens in about 4 months.  I'd fix Stripes, but that is a sure way to never see her again.  You might not believe it.  We have too much experience to think otherwise!

We still have one cow.  And too many spiders.