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Thursday, 15 April 2010

New leash and harness!

Mum just bought me this blue and purple harnes and this pink leash (4m) from Annesela ^^

Yey!

The Horrors of PetVett

The day before yesterday me and mum went to the park, and meet many people. It was fun, it's been almost a year since last time I think. Thousand years maybe!

Anyway: Yesterday mum took me to the botanical garden. There we met S and she and mum tried to read while I thought about chewing on their books, to consume some literature. What to you expect? I'm named after a great philosopher, and not just any great philosopher, the one that founded biology! So I can't resist ecology books. But I didn't chew on them, though.

I relaxed a bit under mums backpack before I started to explore a little and tried to chew on a tree, then I cleaned myself and THEN! mum picks me up and puts me in the carrier. I try to run away but is NO use!

And before I know it we are in the scariest place on all of earth: PETVETT! Mum took me out of the carrier and I sat on heir lap trying to hide under her arm. But then the vet come out and was calling my name. Mum started moving into the dark and scary office! And I tried to run away! But still to no use!

Then mum held me tight and the vet looked at my eyes, then she opened my mouth and looked on my front teeth. She went to get that thing, and I tried to tell mum that we had to run for it! But like always she got tricked and I had to get that thing in my mouth so she could look at my molars. Like always I tried to chew or spit it out, but the vet's evil powers were to strong...

Mum and the vet talked a bit and then we could go and I hid under mums arm in case the evil vet was going to change her mind and do some more tests!

[Mums comment: He didn't have to be put in anaesthesia to get his teeth corrected this time. The vet thinks thinks his teeth is getting better (she said that his molars look like those of a cat or dog, but that that is fine as long as his teeth are stabilising), so were not going back for a new control until July/August].

After we left the vet we took the bus to H, and there we sat in her garden so I could run a little (but I had to use my leash). A big cat came and really scared mum and H. I don't know what the most scary part was; the cat of the fact that mum was scared. But after being scared a way a couple of times by mum the cat left.

After being at H's for sometime, we took the bus home.


Me relaxing under mums backpack in the park:

Right now I'm lying under the table, philosophizing on how to get mum to give me some more pellets (she gave me less than normal this morning)...

Saturday, 3 April 2010

Easter

I'm still alive, but we have been really busy lately, so mum haven't have time to help me with my blogging.

We have for example moved into a bigger apartment, so I have bigger place to run and play around ^^ It's real fun and I run around and play a lot! I used really short time to adjust to my new surroundings so mum was a little surprised, but it's the same things and mostly the same smells and I have Bamsen (mums comment: Aristoteles' toy armadillo) , and he seems really comfortable so I started to feel safe too.

I have also been to the vet some weeks ago, it was another vet, and this time I didn't have to go back to fix my teeth. Yey! But mum says we are going back when we are coming home after Easter (we are on a little vacation right now).

Saturday, 17 October 2009

It's a girl!

Today I found Rosa (Grammostola rosea RCF) together with a shed skin, and this time the cast exoskelleton was whole and undamaged. I checked it and found out that my little (which actually isn't that small any more) juvenile is a girl :)

Rosa is related to Powerpuff (older sister) and Kleopatra. And she and Kleopatra is from the same eggsac and since they are about the same since and always have molted with just some days or hours between I cross my fingers and hope that Kleopatra is a girl too.

Sunday, 11 October 2009

Powerpuff (G. rosea) molted today ^^

I found her like this when I woke up:

Laying on her back wiggling her legs to get out of her old exoskeleton:

And after a couple of hour I could spot her coming out of her old clothes:

And little by little I could see more and more:

Until she just had some of her joints in the old exoskeleton:

Just a little more...

And there! Finally!

And little by little she became darker and darker as the new exoskeleton hardened (look at the reed on her new teeth)

Her old clothes were you can easily see that she's a female

The thing you see here is the sucking stomach and oesophagus:

Unfortunately she turned over on her legs after again after sunset, so it was to dark for photographing.

And then a little video of Aristoteles, who was really displeased with the positioning of the camera:

Thursday, 8 October 2009

Funny hay thingy

Mummy made a hay toy thingy for me today, and it's really funny to play with ^^

After a while I found out that this was the perfect way place it:

I tell you; the hay in this thing tastes way better than the hay I get in my cage!

Thursday, 10 September 2009

Vet

This was a long entry (on about two pages) but blogger deleted it and I don't want to write everything again....

I was the vet yesterday and fixed my teeth, and now I have almost fully recovered after the anaesthesia. Mum was really stressed before this since I got really bad after last time, so she talked to the vet and they have given me stuff to try to help me to get well faster. I eat by myself today, which is much faster then last time were mum had to feed me for a week.

Wednesday, 29 July 2009

Faint is dead

Today HugeSpider found Faint (Pandinus imperator) dead in her terrarium....

HugeSpider have watched her for me for a while, and she haven't eaten and the terrarium has been a little to dry lately. But she was a old lady so she probably died from age...

Faint was my first tropical arachnid and I bought her in Bergen the 15th of August 2005. And like every other arachnid you buy in a pet store in Norway she was probably captured in the wild (so don't buy from arachnids from pet stores!). When I brought her home to Drammen the first thing I did was to tell my mum, one day later she came to me and asked: "The scorpion isn't real is it?"

Some days later she escaped from the terrarium and when I found her and tried to get her up in a box she singed my thumb 3-4 times in row (I still got a scar as a memory of that).

One year I was afraid for her to die since she wouldn't eat (she just ate two crickets and one cockroach and one locust I think), but after a while her appetite came back (video).

And the last year she has accomplished to eat HugeSpiders Pandinus imperator male and been handled by a woman on a exhibition (the second time she was handled in my care and the only one without gloves) without stinging.

She has been a lovely girl full of attitude and I'm going to miss her...

Rest in peace my little girl

Wednesday, 15 July 2009

A little trip to the forest

Today me, mummy and aunty was on a little trip in the forest.

I have been on many trips to the forest with mum this summer and it's really fun.

So all you bunnies out there, tell your mums and dads to take you on a little trip to the forest (or the park if you live in the city) ^^

My Birthday!

I know it's really a while ago, but mum hasn't had time (or the right programs) to make the video before today

So this is something of the things that happened on the day I turned 1 year :)

Friday, 12 June 2009

The day before tomorrw

Since we were going on a trip on my actually birthday (13th of June) I got my present today!

It's a little bit scary but still a little bit fun :)



Mum will upload a video of my actual birthday some day soon (maybe not tomorrow because of the trip).

Monday, 1 June 2009

Molt x2

Both Kleopatra and Rosa (Both are Grammostola rosea RCF) has molted the night to today :)

Their cast skins was damaged so I was unable to sex them properly but it seems like they both are males but I wouldn't know for sure until their next molt.

The fun part of this is that they are siblings from the same egg sack so it was really fun that the couse to molt on the same night. This is actually not the first time they have molted almost the same, but regularly Rosa molts 2-3 days after Kleopatra. And regularly Powerpuff who is their older sister (same mum) seems to molt at the same time as those two in the spring. So it shall be exiting to hear (she lives with HugeSpider) if she has molted or is molting in some days from now ^^

Tuesday, 26 May 2009

Me and some of my toys ^^

Sunday, 24 May 2009

Peaches rules!

Friday, 22 May 2009

Yey!

Mum is home again!
I had to make some happy nods with my head (I also did some happy runing) when I saw that it was her that come in the door this evening!
Mum smiled and said that I was really cute and then we cuddled for a little while.

Balto was also happy to see mum, he wanted to be picked up. And both me and him were given some sunflower seeds ^^

Tuesday, 19 May 2009

Home alone

Mum is going for a field trip today and is going to be away until Friday. So a neighbour of us is going to watch me and Balto while she is away (the eight legged siblings of ours is just going to live their normal life and are not going to be watched). Well if you can say that we are watched over; he's just going to come and feed us and give us fresh water two times a day, so basically we are going to be home alone. Mum says that she don't want to leave us but that she have to, but I think it's just going to be fine (as long as the neighbour not are going to pet me or anything).

Sunday, 17 May 2009

Hurra for 17. mai!

Today it's Norway's national day! And as you all can see I have dressed up with this beautiful ribbon with the colours from Norway's flag.

Mum still doesn't get why I feel some pretty with ribbons, but as I have said before I'm named after a great philosopher so I like to look nice.

And since it's Norway's national day, here's a link to the national anthem: Ja Vi Elsker

Wednesday, 13 May 2009

Update

I'm feeling lot better today!
So since I feel better I woke up mum today as I regulary do with licking her in the face.

I have also eaten some pellets today. Almost half of my daily portion actually ^^

I ate some hay yesterday evening to.

So here are some pictures of me waking mum this morning. Yeah I know they aren't that pretty. But remember that they are taken right after I woke mum.


Right now I'm sitting under my bed and washes myself (I just got my morning antibiotics). Mum says that we are going to sit outside in the garden today so that I can try to eat some tasty grass. That way I can play to, if I feel well enough to do so.

The vet called back yesterday by the way and said that if I'm not eating by tomorrow mum have to call them again. But I'm going to show them! I'm going to eat as I normally do tomorrow so I don't have to go back to the vet!

Tuesday, 12 May 2009

I'm not feeling well...

Yesterday evening I was feeling very well so I was allowed to sleep in mums bed:



But after a while I decided that I wanted to sleep on my regular spot instead:

Me this morning:

And this is me now:

I don't feel well at all... I don't want to either eat or drink myself so mum is feeding me with Critical Care and water...

Mum has called the vet and she his going to call her back around 15:00.

Monday, 11 May 2009

Vet

So I was by the vet today (AGAIN!) and this time mum leaved me alone! They gave me a shot and then I became very tired and fall to sleep.

When I woke mum was still not there and I felt terrible and wasn't able to walk on my feet. After a while when I was able to walk again and then she took me home again. And now she are going to give me some Critical Care since I don't want to eat any hay, herbs or pellets...

How could she do this against me?

Mum feels sorry for me, but it still was she that took me to the vet...


How could you leave me here alone with this people?! (Me when mum picket me up at the vet)

Me in my transport cage on the bus on the way home:


And here is me now. I'm really tired and just want to sleep...