Long Time No Blog - LOTS of UPDATES

I'm sitting in my bosses house, they are away in Bermuda and I have the kids for the weekend, which is over today. We have done all sorts of stuff like pick up hamsters and a new head-tilt bunny (named Bugsy by the very kind people who found him wandering a park in Bridgeport while walking their dog) to having (17) 13 year olds swimming in the pool. Lots of laundry (towels) this weekend and a very busy month has passed by. Sasha and Pekachu both came back due to their owner having had kidney stints put in and serious health issues arise, both have been adopted back out. A bunny tossed at the Bronx Zoo, Sunny, was brought to us by the Chinchilla Depot's Shelly, and has been adopted out. Tucker went for his neuter last month and started chewing his, his umm, yeah, ok, his testicles. He's been wearing an E-Collar for the past month now, little bugger, and stasis monster is now going into stasis again - both are at Linda's. Carmie is not doing so well, Linda's bunny bonded with Angel, and is on orals 2x daily and Bicillin 3x weekly. At my house I have the new head-tilt bunny (makes 3 now), Butterscotch who is doing much better in my opinion, Penny and Cleo - still not sounding great - how long now? Over A YEAR? Now, Ringo the ringworm bunny is showing signs of great illness after being neutered last week. He is sneezing and barking like Cleo does, he's on Zithromax and Bicillin currently. Annabelle is on her final 2 days of Zith and everyone else seems to be holding their own now. We have a new black bunny at my place named Silk, and we took in 3 lops (1 bonded pair) from a woman terminally ill with cancer. The bonded pair are very sweet and awaiting a new home, her single boy, another Butterscotch, was just adopted out. Laurie, owner of Brian and Colin, has decided to adopt Sparkle and I will try to start the bonding process in the next few days. I'm thinking that Wednesday might have to be the day this week as I have Lori Farlekis' buns staying with us as their floors get redone in their home and their walls are painted. A new friend of mine, Michelle L. had me sex her bunnies 2 months ago, as she wanted a friend for her girl, she went to the Milford mall pet store who swore that the bunny she was getting was a girl. It was a boy, he got her female pregnant, she stopped eating so I took her with me for a night and got her to Dr. Poster on Sunday morning as she was kind enough to meet with us and Daisy died on Memorial Day weekend after Dr. Poster tried the Oxytoxin to induce labor and did a sonogram for us to see if the babies were still alive. Pekachu is now happily living in their home with their neutered male. Our shelter's beloved Buttercup that went to her knew home last year with Margie and Cory, and then was bonded with Linus, passed away June 9th. Linus came down and was bonded with Sasha on the 10th, hopefully all is still going well. Ali and Lumar's Doggie Luna passed away suddenly. She will be missed.

We took in a total of 32 hamsters, 3 rats (home with Dr. Poster) and 2 gerbils and 2 Degus this month. Unfortunatley one of the Degu's passed away the very next morning with no outer wounds or physical reasons we could tell. My Chinchilla of 6 years Diego died on June 12th. We are still awaiting his full Necropsy results. We want a new friend for Dusty, but need to make sure that she is not contagious with anything. I know more has happened, good Lord, it's been a month! I'll try to get on things more, I miss writing.

OH! We had our 2nd annual Hop-A-Long Hollow Garden Party on the 10th. We raised over $750, had 3 rabbit adoptions and 5 gerbil adoptions. We also had aprox. 75 people show up, and it was a great time! Linda and Harvey are wonderful hosts.

Keep up the cell phone and ink-cartridge collections, we are in need!

That's it for now - thank you to all our volunteers who have been cleaning and dropping supplies. Without you, there is NO WAY we could keep going.

Brandee