Sammie Is a Mommy!

Sammie is also a deer who lives in my grandma’s (Mom’s mother) screened in patio. For real.

I met Sammie at Christmastime and she seems to love living there. Each day they let her out (she has a big flourescent orange bow around her neck) in the woods and after a bit she returns. Especially if Nanny or Pete (her hubby) try to go somewhere in the car or boat. She tries to go along, following the car or jumping in the boat! She has been their pet since her mother abandoned her on the creek bank as a newborn fawn.

Today, Nanny sent this e-mail, yeah she is a hip grandma:

Subject: New addition to the family! (Silly me, I thought it was a cousin!)

Hello everyone,

Much to our surprise, our pet deer, Sammie, gave birth yesterday to a little baby fawn, sex as yet unknown. I think she is even smaller than Sammie was when I found her.

Sammie stayed gone most of the day yesterday and all night last night and came home about 7:30 this morning. She acted strange and kept coming in and leaving immediately. After the 4th time I told Pete to follow her and that is when he found the new baby.

We brought both back home and they are now perfectly happy in the glass room, and the little one is exploring the whole room. All the company and dogs don’t seem to bother either of them. I have already started to take lots of pictures and will probably e-mail to some of you later.

A friend we know wants Pete to give it to her, but I somehow think that he won’t be able to do this. (Maybe the next one?)

Love, Ethlyn and Pete (Nanny)

I’ll post pics ASAP! Too cute, huh?

Mesmerized

When I first moved home from Kansas, about 2 years ago, I was staying with my sister and her hubby for about 2 months. Often I could not find my dog, Oscar, a chihuahua mix. It was odd. He usually just loves to be where people are. Then I found out where he had been hiding. It was hard to tell which one he loved more, the iguana (Iggy) or the snake (Picolo). Both had been moved to my sister’s bedroom since I had taken over the spare room. He was MESMERIZED by them both, but especally Iggy. I dunno if he was in love or scared, but he would stare at him for hours if the bedroom door was left open. Sometimes he would creep towards the cage for a closer look, only to get scared again and go back to his original spot and stare some more!

The other night, I saw him with this strange gaze again, looking onto my patio. “Oh no,” I thought. I imagined the raccoons were there again. But no. It was a very small opossum. It had come right up to the glass door as if it knew the dog could not get to him. Oscar was hypnotized by it. The two animals just sat there staring at one another until my other dog, Chewy, a peek-a-poo, caught on and began her yapping until the poor thing ran off scared into the bushes. I’m not sure, but I think Oscar probably didn’t appreciate that too much.

Why does Oscar like animals so much? I dunno, but I wish I could take him to the zoo…he would love it.