Re: gardenchat DIGEST V1 and update

We stop for them, too.  Around here so many DAs try to smash them...they
have enough problems trying to find mates and survive.  So, we always stop
and help them across the roads.


> [Original Message]
> From: Zemuly Sanders <zsanders@midsouth.rr.com>
> To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
> Date: 10/27/2006 8:31:42 PM
> Subject: Re: [CHAT] gardenchat DIGEST V1 and update
>
> I love turtles, too.  I'm forever stopping on the highway to help a box 
> turtle across.  The red eared sliders are also prevalent around here as
are 
> alligator snappers.  Speaking of nurturing dogs, did I tell you all that 
> Otis has taken over the care of Fleur, my lilttle crippled cat?  They
spend 
> everyday together on Otis's bed where he flea bites Fleur and bathes her. 
> She is acting more like a diva every day. :o)
> zem
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Bonnie & Bill Morgan" <wmorgan972@ameritech.net>
> To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
> Sent: Friday, October 27, 2006 10:27 AM
> Subject: RE: [CHAT] gardenchat DIGEST V1 and update
>
>
> > Noreen, how do you find time to take care of yourselves between the
babies
> > and the flooding? I love that Ellie Mae is such a good foster momma,
too.
> > :>D  I can also see why it would be wise to at least separate the birds 
> > from
> > the kittens.  Do kittens bother baby turtles?
> >
> > Blessings,
> > Bonnie (SW OH - zone 5)
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-gardenchat@hort.net [o*@hort.net] On 
> > Behalf
> > Of TeichFlora@aol.com
> > Sent: Friday, October 27, 2006 8:22 AM
> > To: gardenchat@hort.net
> > Subject: Re: [CHAT] gardenchat DIGEST V1 and update
> >
> > First of all, prayers, for sure, for Melodie.  How truly awful to deal 
> > with
> > so much at once.  I'm with you Pam, can't imagine what reasoning there 
is
> > behind all that tragedy!!  My heart and prayers go out to the whole
> > family!!
> >
> > And Auralie, I so admire your restraint.  That definitely would  be
> > difficult.
> > I hope all works out well, and that your plants will survive fine until
> > they are able to be replanted......sounds like it was (and will be
again) 
> > a
> > lovely garden.
> >
> > Well, we (at least in our neighborhood) dodged another bullet.....had
> > another 7 inches of rain yesterday.  Another Hurricane, this time Paul,
> > came across Mexico, into the Gulf. North Houston didn't fare so well 
with
> > tornado damage, etc. and poor east Texas (Beaumont, Orange) they were
> > already and still
> > flooded from the last storms, I can't imagine what it is  like there.
> > Seems the
> > rest of the eastern coast is going to feel the  effects today.  Rains 
> > ended
> > far too late, sometime after midnight, so  wasn't able to go out and 
> > rescue
> > fish.  Hope it stays wet enough for them  to survive so I can go out
when 
> > it
> >
> > turns light and see.
> >
> > Baby boom in Houston.....no not because of the rains.  LOL  Had  been
on 
> > an
> > adoption list for longest to adopt some native box turtles that  needed
> > homes.
> > There is a turtle society here that rescues and rehabs  turtles.  We've 
> > done
> > this for Red Eared sliders for the past 10 years or  so....the older
ones
> > that were wild we set free after rehab, the babies we  raised, some were
> > adopted out and many we kept.  Had always wanted some  boxies....so we
> > finally got a hatchling pair of three toed.....they were  the size of a 
> > dime
> > and quarter.
> > Took some time to get used to feeding them  creepy crawler stuff.  RES 
> > were
> > easy, they ate mosquito larvae and softened  turtle food.  These babies
a
> > bit more difficult, they have selective  appetites and need both land
and
> > water.
> > Finally got used to feeding live  foods...seems they weren't interested
in
> > the food that didn't wiggle.  It's  working out well though, and they
are
> > growing and happy.  They are  adorable....they know my voice now and
come
> > running toward me with their little  heads up, looking for food.
> >
> > In the meantime, once you have babies...seems everyone wants them.   LOL
> > Missed an egg in the dove aviary, so now we have a baby  there.   The 
> > kitten
> > from
> > last year was too young to spay, then she had  an infection was on
> > antibiotics, etc. and then had an appointment, but they said  she was in
> > heat...so had
> > to wait till she was out of it.....then found out she  was already pg. 
> > She
> >
> > had gotten out once for a couple  minutes....apparently that is all it
> > takes.
> > Well...we have kittens.   Cutest little critters though.    Our dogs,
> > especially nurturing  Border Chow, Ellie Mae, is just besides
> > herself...doesn't know where to go first  to take care of what babies.
> > Kittens are in the guest room, birds in  another, and turtles in
another.
> > SO she spends all day going from room to  room, and if a baby makes a 
> > noise,
> > she rushes to see if they are okay, and of  course she comes to get me. 
> > SO
> > it's been fun.  Hm...
> >
> > Noreen
> > zone 9
> > Texas Gulf Coast
> >
> > So much for the update from our house.
> >
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