Exciting news: PopupDivFunc();My fat, spoiled, eating disorder suffering cat no longer pukes up his food after each meal and no I am NOT spoon feeding him one morsel at a time either....

Years ago if someone said “raising chickens is easy” I probably would have rolled my eyes, flipped them the bird and gone the other way. The number of our current animal residents and the huge responsibility they come with has had me to overwhelmed to consider adding other creatures. Remember… We have a dog, two...

Jack, the cat that was voted off the island and then welcomed back last summer after he came home with some traumatic injuries is really wearing on our last nerves again. He seriously has some food issues going on. I promise, I am not just being dramatic about it either. He insists on being the...

Our three hens have gone out to the backyard where they permanently live in our garden space. The reasoning behind this is so that they can help control the garden pest population naturally thus keeping our growing food happier and also providing us with some super nutritious organic eggs. Did you know chickens that forage...

Our hens got their first taste of outdoor spring fun today. They are just a few weeks away from being old enough for outdoor life and today was their first glimpse of the outdoors. Boy were they unsure in the beginning but they eventually took to chasing bugs and having fun in the yard. There...

This morning was dedicated to dealing with our bolting rhubarb out in the square foot garden beds. We have 3 rhubarb bunches we planted last spring. We were stoked to see leaves poking up through the straw mulched beds in February but now one of the bunches is setting flowers and essentially bolting. Bolting or...

This post has become quite long since the experience has stretched on for about 4 days now with frequent changes and updates. To make access to the info you want easier use the below links to jump to the content section you are interested in: The Background on Maybelle’s Labor: Rabbit gestation and symptoms of...

It is crazy how getting a glimpse of your little one inside the womb makes things more real. It is almost like meeting for the first time, now that you have a visual representation of the little person you are growing you begin to feel closer and the bonding begins. Everly was along for the...

I realized I never really updated you guys about the healing of Jack our orange cat. Remember the cracked jawbone, the limp he walked with and his starved state when he came home following his 2 weeks missing in action? For financial reasons we didn’t rush him off the the vet. He wasn’t appearing to...

Gabby, our needle swallowing cat is crazy! Do you remember the drama of her needle consumption and rescue? You can refresh your memory by re-reading about it here if necessary. Before she choked down the needle and thread she chewed through cell phone charging cables, camcorder charging cables, usb cables, Wii balance board charging cables,...