flash no more?

Well, yesterday and event happened. Samantha took a cookie outside and decided it would be a good idea to feed it to Flash. Sam almost got her finger tip bit off. Well, maybe that is slightly exaggerated. But it cut through part of her finger nail and there are about four lacerations on her index finder on her left hand. AND it was literally dripping with blood.

I thought that it would probably be okay, so I slapped some neosporine and a band aid on it and she went on her merry way. Then I looked at it today. It started to look a little angry. Did you know that most doctors offices closed early today!?! So, when Darrell came home I took Sam to the ER. We were actually in and out within an hour - miracle, right? They said they couldn't tell if it was infected yet, scolded me a little for not bringing her in sooner, and calling animal control, because apparently they want to start antibiotics for any animal bite, and they need the animal to be observed for 10 days to rule out rabies. I really do not think that this animal is sick, but we will call animal control and get it sorted out.

Now the questions is, do we claim the rabbit or not? The kids have been having a lot of fun these last two weeks chasing it and feeding it (obviously), but if we want it back, we will have to claim it as our own pet.

That is, if it does not have rabies.

More Small Joys

I love having Eskimo kisses with my girls. I call them nosies. I don't know what it is about rubbing noses with those tiny ones, but I love it, and I feel loved when I know that they love it too!

Oh, and my Samantha kisses consist of us just touching noses. Oh, how I love them!

Flash Autry

About a week ago, we spied a bunny rabbit hopping around our back yard. We thought that this was quite interesting, and the kids had fun watching it hop around and eat the grass. Darrell even went out and fed it some cabbage. It even let him pick it up.

So, every day the kids have been going outside and trying to play with the rabbit and Ryan has named it Flash, because it is so fast.

Today we let Samantha outside, because we bought her new shoes that actually fit. She probably chased that rabbit around the yard for 20 minutes! It would let her get close, and she would reach her hand out to pet it, and then she would squeal with delight, only to have it hop away, because she was too loud.

And where did this bunny come from, you may be asking? We were wondering that as well, until we talked to our back door neighbor. Apparently it is a pet bunny that is owned by the people a couple of houses down. It was let run around inside, and because it kept peeing on the carpet they let it go. I am sad for the bunny!

So, we and our back door neighbors have been feeding this rabbit, and we shall see how it survives the winter!

Oh, and Jenny let it get inside the other day as well, before we knew that it was a tame rabbit. I had to explain to her that we do not bring animals in the house from outside. She was sad, but I think that she understands!:)