Mug Shots Please....

Hello again dear reader, yes, two posts in one day!

Don't worry, this isn't a habit I will get into, this is a special request from one of your number for some pictures of my terrible tribe *fond grin* and like any "proud mother" I am happy to oblige so in this post you will find pictures of the animals, with maybe a little bit about them so you can identify the faces with the stories in future :) Enjoy.

This is Izzy, Queen of the roost (at least if you ask her) - she is the one I have had longest, and you already know the story of how I met her. She is a real madam, though you may never believe it, and she knows exactly how to get her own way!

These are Patch and Nibbles - technically they are John's - a belated Valentines Present. Patch has her back to you and Nibbles is the one facing you. This was them in their cage before we got the hutch (when we got Brambles). They were born somewhere around the end of April 2010.

This pretty girl is Brambles, she is technically a dwarf lop rabbit, but no-body told her the meaning of dwarf. She is a real character, like most of her siblings. We got her Aug 2010, so she is about a month younger then the Guinea Pigs.

This little pair are Mungo and Jerry (Mungo is the siamese sable at the back, and Jerry is the grey nearer you. When we went to get these guys, it was Jerry I saw first, and he had an attitude, nibbling the girl at the store - I was sold, most would shy away from one that had a bit of an attitude, but for me he was adorable.

This is Aleksandr, one of two Campbells Russian dwarf hamster that won my heart. Originally, we looked at some little Robinski hamsters, but they were just too fast for me, escaping both me and the lad showing them to me. We decided to look at a slightly slower, more docile, option and he got this little guy out for me to hold. It was love at first cuddle, and the rest is history.

This is Sergei. After cuddling his brother Aleksandr for a little while, and deciding to bring them home, I asked for this sleepy little guy too. We continued to make friends in the car on the way home, with him disappearing up my sleeve for a cuddle while John popped into Tesco's.

This lovely little girl is Lola, she is one of three rescue rats I said hello to when I collected Sergei and Aleksandr. Being rats, and as one of her sisters was half blind, they had been given very little interest. I have had rats before and know what loving pets they can be. I had a cuddle with her, and told them that I would need to see if I had room for them and if I did I would be back for them the following Tuesday. When I went back on the Tuesday, one of the three (Jasmine, very similar markings to Lola) had been rehomed, leaving these two. Undetered, I took them both home.

This is Tess - sister to Lola and one of the main reasons they were so hard to rehome as she is half blind. Most Albino animals have poor sight anyhow, but poor Tess has completely lost the sight in her left eye. Far from making her nervous and hard to handle, she is a complete sweetheart so long as you talk to her when you go about picking her up. Both Tess and Lola love having cuddles, and frequently curl up on my shoulder and go to sleep. Tess is probably the more adventurous of the two, despite her handicap.