Baby Alligator

I'll hopefully be posting some pictures of xmas crafts soon, but I wanted to share a fun social media thing I just did. I usually don't do these types of things, but I figured, what the heck, it'll be fun. 

A friend posted that she was moving too a new country and I asked if it was true. She then sent me the following: 

"Its not Real! It's a game. You should have never commented or liked my picture. HAHAHA! You fell into the trap. This is a game. The person who likes/comments has to choose one of the following to post as his/her Status, Profile or Cover photo. 1. We eloped! 2. We're getting married.3. We're engaged 4. Wedding bells 5. Engagement ring 6. I'm moving to another country. 7. I'm expecting 8. Ultrasound 9. I just bought a new Ferrari. 10. I just got a pet Alligator. 11. I'm still in love with my ex. 12. I'm in love with a stripper. 13. I'm a stripper on weekends. Make it believable and juicy! Note: You cannot explain anything, just post and leave it up for a few days and INBOX only your victims. I'm also a victim lol"

Well, I didn't want to do any of the marriage type ones, or the ultra sound ones, or the stripper ones, and definitely not the ex one, so that left just a few choices that would definitely sound unbelievable with me posting about them. So, I went the MOST un realistic and tried to make it sound as real as possible. I posted a picture of someone holding a baby alligator and typed (Amiira is our hedgehog):

"Today we found a baby alligator and I guess we're keeping it for the winter. We're keeping him in Amiira's old cage right next to her new one, kinda scary but the room is warm enough. We'll have to get a heat lamp tomorrow. Here's a pic of the little guy."

Believe it or not, within a couple of minutes I already had 2 people ask where I found him. I think I'm just proud of how well I did tricking people! 

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Crafting Withdrawal!

So, my boyfriend got a job a while ago, and he works night shifts mostly. So because of this, I've slowly shifted over to his schedule in order to spend time with him while he's AWAKE. The problem with this is the fact that we don't live on our own. We are staying at his mothers.Who sleeps most of the time that I am awake.

So because of this, I haven't been crafting very much. I just got a brand new sewing machine, and I want to SEW, however it's loud and I don't have anything over there to cut up and do anything with anyways. Plus, her two dogs are probably going to start barking whenever I touch that foot pedal.

The HUGE downside to this schedule is that I don't do anything while I'm awake. Our gym is closed, it's dark so I'm too afraid to go walking around at night, (this whole 12/21/12 end of the world thing is gotten slightly out of control with all of these shootings, am I right?) and no one has seen fit to hire me on as an employed, civilized and not lazy person. Not for lack of trying on my part, of course, but I am getting more and more annoyed with jobs saying they're entry level and then say that they require 6 mo-1 yr of experience. Another thing that keeps me from getting a job is a bilingual requirement.

We got the dogs new harnesses, so when it gets light enough in the morning, I'll take them on a short walk. One of them is VERY obese, and can't handle a longer walk yet, but the plan is to get him to lose weight. My BFs mother is one of those people who have no energy whatsoever and cannot do the physical tasks required for owning dogs, so as a result neither of them are used to exercise. Or having a clean yard to poop in. My personal plan is also to lose some weight, but I'm happy with having a physical thing to do before I pass out at 8-12 in the morning. I'd rather go back to the gym, though.

AWESOME harness. Ours aren't so pretty though.

For xmas, his father got me a very large bag full of mostly craft feathers, but there are beads, (mostly turquoise and silver colored) sinew, leather lacing, and other natural beading cords, and more feathers. I HAVE been wanting to do stuff with feathers, not that anyone knew that, but I'm a bit overwhelmed. They are slightly Native American, but what's with all this stuff? Do you want me to make you dream catchers? Talking Feathers? Other things I don't know about because I myself am not Native American?

Talking Feather, found on Google

I am excited about making dream catchers though. I did make a talking feather (above, not my picture), which is kind of just a pretty dowel with a feather attached, because there was a kit for it and I was bored. It was a quiet activity, let me assure you. I like it. I don't know why, but I feel like it would be a great activity for elementary students. Plus it's cool looking. Kids would be all like, I got the feather, now shut up dammit. Except they would all make one.

My Hedgehog

Here are pictures of my beautiful Hedgehog, Amiira. 

This is the only professional picture of her, we got it for free because the guy just wanted the opportunity to take a picture of a hedgehog, haha! 

Here she is, curled up in a ball. 

Here she is, curled up in a ball again. 

And again! 

Now she's comfortable enough to go explorin'. 

And here is her in her bday present, a pink bed. Not sure she likes it, based on THAT face! 

DIY Pet Traveling

With a small animal, a cat carrier can be too big or too open for comfort. Most small animals take rides while wrapped in a towel or in a box.

I created a small travel box for our hedgehog for her comfort, and I'll share the idea with you.

For this project, you'll need:

• A small cardboard box.
• Durable, tightly woven fabric.
• A ruler.
• Scissors/knife.
• Hot glue gun and glue sticks.
• Velcro.

This is my box.

Amiira has already ridden in this box, from the breeders in Spokane to home in Kennewick.
Optional--Cut the top flaps off, so there's only the sides and the bottom.
Measure the bottom of the box.

Cut two pieces of fabric that are a couple of inches bigger than the bottom of the box in both directions. (longer in both length and width)

Sew these together, wrong sides out, and leave a gap in one side.
Turn in right side out, and stuff it like a pillow. Use a ladder stitch to close the remaining gap. I don't recommend topstitching, as this will provide loops of thread that may snag little toes and feet.

Now line the bottom of the box with fabric. I simply hotglued the fabric down, but make sure to fold the edges of the fabric so it's underneath.

Now, attach the SOFT part of the velcro onto the bottom of the pillow. Make sure the velcro is on the very edges of the pillow.

Only do the two long sides of the pillow. Attach velcro to the fabric in the bottom of the box so both sides of the velcro line up.
You're done with the basics! You can place a hand warmer that you "break" and it heats up in between the pillow and the lining fabric to keep your animal warm. The pillow is also removable and washable. You can decorate the outside of the box, or line the inside of the box to your and your pets comfort.

If you have a nocturnal animal, I suggest provided a shirt or a smallish piece of fabric for them to hide and snuggle up underneath with.

Mine isn't very pretty, but hedgehogs are from the mole family and I'm sure she doesn't care much for pretty patterns, although they do like to play with brightly colored things.

Have fun! and please post pictures of finished projects!

Lots O' Pets

What kinds of pets do you have?

I myself have a cat, and my boyfriend and I have a hedgehog. We've only had her since the Wednesday before thanksgiving, so she's still shy and it's hard to get a good picture of her.

Most of the crafts I will be posting will be for cats, small animals (like hedgehogs) and possibly dogs. However, most crafts should be able to be used for other animals, as well. They probably won't be made specifically for the pet I made it for.

My cats name is Wynter. She was born pure white and she's just a domestic long furred cat; my bests friends cat continued having kittens, so I got to keep one. My friend also named all of the kittens, which is great because I really suck at choosing names.

Our hedgehogs name is Amiira. It means "Princess", in Arabic. She is an Algerian Grey, and we bought her from a breeder in Spokane. We picked up Amiira while she was quilling, and though we hold her everyday to make sure she's getting used to us and will be sociable after she's done quilling, she's quite bristly towards us still. She'll let us pick her up and she cuddles up into our elbow for a while, but sometimes she'll come out of hiding to look around, especially if we bribe her with bits of kitty kibble.


What types of pets do you have? I'd love to hear about them, especially about exotic pets. It's really fun telling people I have a hedgehog living in my room, because most people can only make a connection back to Sonic the hedgehog. They don't know what they really look like, and certainly don't know anything about what they eat, how they act, etc.

Overpopulation

What do you think should be done about the overpopulation of animals in the world?

Animals are put to sleep everyday because we don't have room for them.
Many of them are strays, and many of them were lost or runaways.
Some of them were even animals that people owned,
but decided they couldn't keep them for various reasons.

There are tons of people out there who are making an effort to keep this from happening,
but not nearly enough. There are plenty of people who don't feel that it is important.

But it is. It might not be important to you, but it's important in the world.
It's important to the animals themselves.


What do you think should be done?

Please justify why you think your idea could work.

Example:
I think that owners shouldn't have the option NOT to spay or neuter their pets,
unless they're liscenced breeders. If they're THAT passionate about breeding their pet,
they can get a liscence to do it; it's not that hard.

For people who want a pet and cannot afford to spay or neuter,
adoption agencies and clinics can provide a free or reduced pay surgery.
This will require fundraisers and donations.