Paige is our Animal girl! If there is an animal that is hurt or needing a home, Paige will be the one to find it and bring it home. You know all those anecdotes about kids bringing animals home and saying "Look what I found?"....well, we live that all the time with Paige! There is nothing she wants more that to have yet another addition to our menagerie (we currently have two cats, a bird, a lizard and a hamster). Over the Christmas holidays, Mark took the kids hiking in the snow. While on the hike, Paige found a frog frozen in the ice and thought it was dying. Before Mark could say anything, she had dug it out and was breathing on it! Of course it 'came back to life'! When she brought it home, I had to explain to her that it was actually hibernating and that it was OK for it to be in the ice. That by breathing on it, she had 'reanimated' it...talk about a lesson in hibernation! So...of course we couldn't put the frog back outside as it really WOULD die. We can now add 'frog' to our list of creatures! It (not sure if it's a boy or girl!) has been dubbed 'Froggler' and is co habiting quite nicely with Paiges lizard (another rescued animal!) 'Dino'. They both eat the same thing (crickets) and aren't interested in eating each other- a real bonus! Paige seems to have a real talent at keeping all these things not only alive, but THRIVING, so I can see us traveling across country when we move to WI with a whole vehicle full of cages! :)
Hugs to you all!
Jaye
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