Scooter made it through his surgery and seems to be recovering well. He's a brave little guy. Molar clipping in rodents and rabbits is probably the equivalent of wisdom teeth removal in humans. (When I had my wisdom teeth out it was the worst week of my life. I didn't even want to move or be awake.) He'll be on antibiotics and pain medicine for a ( Read more... )

Here's the most interesting thing I've learned in the past week. It's from one of goldenmoonbear's fancy grad school learnin' books:

The tooth fairy is largely a Western custom, having evolved in the cultural melting pot of the United States, most likely during the 19th century. But all over the world shed-tooth rituals of various forms have eased this process ( Read more... )

It's time once again for Italian Almanac. Novembre is a significant month for me because the first time I visited mainland Italy was in November 2002 and it looked a lot like the almanac. It is a good month for corvids, especially the Rook and the Jay. The little rodents are curled up in their burrows and they've taken their nocciola with them. Be ( Read more... )

Weekend Digest

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Happy Pean-iversary to Pean. We wanted to have all of his old friends from the chinchilla rescue society come over for a surprise party, but they are now scattered across the galaxy, and besides, if chinchillas come over then people would come over with them and we can't handle that. We did let him watch the "Chiselers" episode of "Life Of Mammals ( Read more... )