Lots of Photos...

[almond]

I hope there's not a size limit on here, just let me know and I can resize photos or link to them. And if the page is proving difficult to load (which it shouldn't with a good Internet connection), I can just link to them anyway.



* = for adoption.


Rabbits:

Ollie - male French lop/dwarf hotot mix, 3 years old. Emmy's son.


Emmy - female dwarf hotot mix, 6 years old.


Lio - female (spayed) dwarf lionhead, 3 months old. (That's Heather she's sitting with.)



Guinea pigs:

Ginger - female orange dutch teddy, 4 months old.


Nutmeg - female calico American, 6 weeks old.


Cinnamon-sugar - female calico Abbyssinian, 6 weeks old.



Rats:

Anastasia - female dumbo Himalayan double-rex, 1 year old.


Felicity - female agouti capped, 1 year old.


Fiona - female black hooded rex, 6 months old.


Annabelle - female champagne hooded, 3 months old.



Mice:

Bert - female black broken marked, 1.5 years old.


Ernie - female recessive yellow broken marked, 1.5 years old.


*Coffee - female black, 1 year old.


*Bou - female black variegated, 1 year old.


Cappucino - female red, 10 months old.


Latte - female brindled cream satin, 10 months old.


*Mocha - female broken tan, 9 months old.


*Toffee - female red, 9 months old.


*Kahlua (middle) - female broken tan, 4 months old. Toffee's daughter.


*Frappe - female broken tan, 4 months old. Toffee's daughter.


*Hazelnut, Espresso, Amaretto, and Swizzle - males, recessive yellows and a broken tan, 4 months old. Toffee's sons.





Why I love mice.



Gerbils:

*Diablo - male ginger, 1.5 years old.


*Kirby - male ginger, 1.5 years old.


*Yoshi - male burmese, 1.5 years old.



Syrian hamsters:

*Dewy - male longhaired sable banded, 9 months old.


Mario - male golden, 9 months old. This hamster has a genetic defect.


Toad - male black, 9 months old. This hamster has a genetic defect.



Winter white/hybrid dwarf hamsters:

Cupcake - male sapphire, 1 year old.


Milkshake - male sapphire pearl, 11 months old.


Turtle - male agouti, 4 months old. Milkshake and Pocky's son.


Truffle - male agouti, 4 months old. Milkshake and Pocky's son.


Coconut - male agouti pearl, 4 months old. Milkshake and Pocky's son.



Campbell's dwarf hamsters:

*Shortcake - male opal, 10 months old.


*Cheesecake - male albino, 1 year old.


*Pocky - female agouti, 1 year old.


*Limpy - male blue, 8 months old.


Spazzy - female mottled blue, 6 months old.


Topaz - male mottled blue, 2 months old. Spazzy's son.


Jasper - male mottled argente, 7 months old.


*Opal - female opal, 4 months old.


Jade - female opal, 4 months old.


Amethyst - female blue fawn, 1 month old.



Roborovski dwarf hamsters:

Rose - female agouti, 9 months old.


Tulip - female agouti, 9 months old.


Lily - female white-faced, 7 months old.



Doves:

Phoenix - male tangerine ringneck, 4 years old.


Pidgeon - female blonde ringneck, 4 years old.



Budgies (parakeets):

Churro - female blue yellowfaced, 1 year old.


Queso - male blue dominant pied, 1 year old.


Nacho - male mauve dominant pied, 10 months old.


Taquito - female yellow, 8 months old.


Salsa - male dilute blue yellow-faced, 6 months old.


Chile - male green, 6 months old.



Frogs:

Pirate - leopard frog.


Chris - female Indonesian White's dumpy tree frog.


Jamie - male Indonesian White's dumpy tree frog.


Bob - male Austrailian White's dumpy tree frog.


Tweed - Asian chubby frog.


Andre - Cuban tree frog.



Fish (I have bettas, but no pictures of them.):

Ges - male Auratus African cichlid, 6 years old.



My one and only creepy crawly:

Charlie - male giant African black millipede.

[Hamsters82]

Very cute pets you have. Sorry not into millipedes, but he is cool looking.

[ladyjosephine]

ooh Wauw, your rats are beautiful!!
I Like Dewy&Yoshi too

[Die Fledermaus]

Scores of huge oversized photos in one post makes downloading very problematic indeed for anyone with dialup. We would encourage separate threads for each type of critter, clickable thumbnails, or giving us the link to an online gallery of photos--as I do with Webshots, which is FREE.

But I do appreciate and thank you for the effort.

Since I have started, and am still waiting for the downloading to finish, I may as well stick around
and see all the photos, and save the ones I like.

Well, the quality of the photos is excellent, and some of them are gorgeous! After seeing Latte (beautiful!!) I am indeed sticking around for all the photos. . .

Photos of my pets are all over this site, and the deceased ones can be found in the memorial gallery in my signature, which sadly needs updating.

There is always a photo of a pet of mine at the very bottom of the main page. Right now it is Butterscotch the hamster. Lovely fellow.

Fiona and Toffe are favorites of mine. The mice are lovely. In the Mice forum from a few years back you will see some threads with photos of gorgeous mice I got. Sadly, many of their photos can also now be found in the memorial gallery in my sig below.

Biggest problem with many mice: sexing a juvie before he starts copulating!

Yoshi--so that's a Burmese!

(I am halfway through the download).

Dewy. Two of my most beloved long-hair banded sables were Princess and Prince. Photos in memorial gallery; their stories can be found on this board with a Search. Much missed.

Mario has personality. what is his defect?? Toad, also.

Coconut and Cheesecake are my favorite dwarfs. Does Limpy limp??

All my dwarfs (rescues) passed long ago.

Amethyst is gorgeous!

Doves! We had a thread recently started by hamsters82 on the difference between doves and pigeons,. check it out.

I have only two parakeets here--both rescues as they have deformed feet and live in a tank.

Download continuing. . .

Here come the frogs. . .

I am going to get some lunch as I wait for this to finish. . . back soon. . .

Hmm. Lunch was good, Split pea soup.

Jamie is my favorite frog!

Good heavens! Charlie is huge!

So that was worth the download wait!! Thanks!!

Tell us how many critters you have, and how many habitats, and how you deal with so many. Ever have problems with bugs or mites? I always am fighting mites which unless I am vigilant appear in tanks: I use a little permethrin mixed in the bedding as a preventative.

I am saving a lot of these photos.

You are very knowledgeable, and the quality of the photos is tops.

This is a gallery of photos of MY pets, created in January. Check it out:

LINK HERE

[almond]

Mario and Toad (the last two of four) have a facial deformity/birth defect (most likely genetic and from inbreeding).

They're smaller than the average hamster (80-90 grams), have underdeveloped testicles, bulgy, runny eyes, and most noticeably, they have round, stubby faces. Most of the time their lower lip looks like it's hanging down, and sometimes their tongue is almost always sticking out. And of course, they have their tooth problems. I usually say they have "no" teeth, when in actuality, they do start out with teeth, but as they get to be a few months old, their tiny, deformed, maloccluded, brittle incisors will start to fall out and break. Right now one of them has one teeny tiny nub on top and on bottom, and the other has a nub on bottom that doesn't even go past his gumline.


Size comparison.
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Underdeveloped testes.
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Bulgy, runny eyes.
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Stubby face.
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Lip hanging down.
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Tongue sticking out.
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Teeth.
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I have 75 animals currently, but that includes 6 dwarf hamster babies that will eventually be sold.

I have 1 rabbit cage (will eventually be cube cage), 4 cube cages, 2 bird cages, 15 bins, 11 aquariums (2 are for frogs/fish), 4 betta tanks, and 1 Kritter Keeper-like cage that houses the millipede in use.

Here is my "wall of cube cages."
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The top left is a rabbit cage, under that is a rat cage. The top of the structure on the right houses the pigs (it still needs to be extended =P), and the bottom houses two rabbits (it's divided).


Part of the reason I'm able to "deal with so many" is that I have a very large storage closet (complete with shelving). I also have found ways to get things cheap (not to mention discounts where I work AND at PetSmart), make do with things, and keep things simple (like the bins, aquariums, cube cages). I also only work two days a week, so that leaves plenty of time for me to care for the animals.

It sounds odd keeping the animals in the closet, but after taking a look, it doesn't seem so weird. The closet is 6 x 12 feet, in two sections. The front (entry) section has the birds and a bunch of pet supplies, the back section has all of the rodent cages and extra cages.

When you walk in, to your left.
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Top cage is budgies, bottom is doves. The big white thing is a fan for air circulation.

Across from them is a shelving unit used to store opened bags of food, litter, etc. as well as extra toys, wheels, and hideys. I also have a bunch of bird stuff rammed in there, along with treats, mite treatment, and a kitchen scale.
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And then going back towards the door, that is where I store bedding, my shop vac, and a shelving unit used to store cardboard toys/hideys and rags/blankets/fleece for the rats/rabbits/cavies.
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In the second section of the pet room, to the left there are a bunch of bins. You can also see the small air purifier I keep in there.
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The first three brown bins have Syrians in them, and the last has my breeding dwarf males (plus Cheesecake). The first three open bins on the floor have my breeding females + their litters, and the two cages on the end of both rows have gerbils in them.

Up top there are four mouse bins, where the male mice are kept, along with a bunch of extra bins/cages/cubes.
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On the right you'll see a shelving unit that's not built in.
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The tens on the top have mice, and the three below them have my rescue/aggressive Campbell's. The bin on top houses my hybrid dwarfs. The open ten below has my winter white in it, and the cage beside him has more mice. The bins on the floor house Roborovski dwarfs. Oh, and the shelf with no cages on it is where I keep food and treats.

And up top I have an extra rabbit cage, extra hardware cloth, and a bunch of carriers/sick cages.
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My frogs hang out in the extra bedroom/office area.
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I have had all of the mice get lice before, from a mouse I brought home. I've since gotten rid of them (the lice), though, and haven't had any for months. Other than that, I haven't really had any bug problems, but I keep Ivermectin, Listerine, and witchhazel on hand just in case.

[Die Fledermaus]

Your camera is anything but crappy. Those are quality photos! You can see my photos are generally quite good, but it is tricky when I have it on macro--the flash often "burns out" (overexposes) the image. I need to be careful.

>> Sadly (for me) I've separated them from their other two cagemates so they could lose some weight (and so the other two could gain some!). <<

I don't get it.

Deformities: I once had a gerb with no back legs; have the two keets, and have Enjo the gerb with a splayed out back leg and locked forepaw. The pet store considered killing her, but then they thought about me. Enjo is fine almost three years alter.

Once in a great while I miss with the sexng of a juvie mouse; maybe I felt rushed or tired. It only takes one!!

Wow. Interesting and bad problems with the hams. The worst I ever had were a few rescues from pet stores where as juvies they had their testicles bitten off! They lived normal lives here, though.

I see about Limpy. Childhood names sometimes stick with people too.

Pigeons cooing. a few is sweet. A dozen outside the window at 4 or 5 AM when I a trying to sleep is not! I had nightmares of being a dark forest surrounded by owls! I got the neighbor to put those things down the bird hate to walk on so I could get some sleep.

Good ventilation in the storage closet?? You use fans I assume. I saw lots of fans for dog crates at the Madison Square Garden Dog Show in February (thread posted).

Most of my tanks I found abandoned, including a 45 gallon in perfect condition, and an odd-shaped 25-30 gallon with top and wheel.

I will check the photo of your closet soon.

Ivermectin. do you orally dose all your critters? Seems very hard, especially with mice, and especially as syringes worry me (drowning the animal).

I gotta get going with the backyard cat situation. I will post a photo soon and you will see the problem. Maybe the cat experts have ideas. If the kittens don't get socialized soon they stay feral forever.

I will get back to your photos as time permits, but soon. Thanks for not posting more photos but only links!

back later. . .

[Die Fledermaus]

>> And if you at least read what I've commented on the pictures, then you'll see that it says I have a large, nice fan as well as an air purifier in there. <<

I will read it when I get to it, as I said. You know I have been very busy today with cat rescues issues, which I am just back from.

>> topical Ivermectin <<

Not familiar with it.

I have no cube cages. I have regular big cages which I got from a person who gave me her two GPs, and the cages I got from a rescue friend when she moved. That is on the board from December 2006. Got a cool tank topper from her too. The link I gave you to the Webshots gallery shows you all my animals: a few gerbs have died, some mice were born, a fews hams died, a few hams were rescued. So the number is about the same. Not all the rats were photographed as so many look alike. Coolest habitat is a 45 gallon tank for spiny mice--a tank I found abandoned downstairs in perfect condition. Lucky find.

Back soon to check more photos. . .

[Die Fledermaus]

OK, let me get back to this. . .

First photo in the links post: wow. that is quite a difference in size. I never had one that extreme!

Second photo: hmm. They DO seem small.

"Bulgy runny eyes": awww, Kind of cute!

"Stubby" photo: I've never seen the like!

Lip hanging down photo: he is pouting, and looks like he wants to be left alone! The second one I like--he seems to be praying.

Let's see the four teeth photos. . . yikes! He is not happy! Second photo: funny looking teeth and one big tongue! Third photo: one big mouth! Fourth: bad pointy teeth.

>> Right now one of them has one teeny tiny nub on top and on bottom, and the other has a nub on bottom that doesn't even go past his gumline. <<

Sheeez. Special diet, of course? Kate and Robin's hams are on soft diets forever.

Let me take a break and get to the other photos later. Very interesting stuff!

[Die Fledermaus]

Well, I am back. Great photos. Thanks again.

Best to Jamie and his burns. I once saw a cat in a store, generally well-treated, get a bad burn on her head touching a space heater.

>> Here is my "wall of cube cages." <<

Impressive. How does cleaning go?

Let's tale a peak at the storage closet: is that big white thing a fan or one of those ion air purifiers? I can see there is room in the big closet.

Very organized closets you have.

Mice bins: a breeder had them all over his walls--cages for single male mice ("bucks") and tanks in shelves for the girls. Loads of mice in a very small apartment--and no discernible smell. You ever use Ammo Litter in the bedding, or that spray for small animal smells? I think he did.
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That breeder had them more tightly packed on his walls than that.

And there is the frog habitat. . . excellent looking. The wood matches.

Very well organized.

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I am woozy from all the photos!

Last thing. . . much of the design and layout seems similar in style and technique. did you develop it all at once or gradually over time? I mean, usually, at first, people extemporize initially.

Thanks for the photos. I saw them all.

[Die Fledermaus]

>> I'm not really sure how to say this nicely, <<

The fact that you tried is great!

My situation has been explained over and over for years on this board visa vis rescues. I had a year ago 19 rats as I got two females who supposedly were "too young" and had not been with males! Ha!! They are happy here, a lot happier than the snake bin. My active efforts to adopt them out using craigslist and animal rescue groups in cited Animal Rescues resulted in only two being adopted to a reliable person, and he six months later had to return them. That story has been posted. I have no time to reference my situation further. Space will open up as natural attrition occurs: many animals (mostly rescues) are getting on especially the gerbils. Sheez, even Poppy the bunny is four! Seems like I got her yesterday.

>> Maybe consider switching to cubes? <<

Your instructions were clear. Now to find the time! After May time will open up better.

OK, I read everything. Can't respond to it all. Gotta feed the critters. can't answer everything but I read everything.

[Lillith Rose]

your pictures are not working now..i tried to look at your pictures and it says that they got erased..need to fix them so that others can see them..sorry