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Another New Puppy called Jazz

Well, on Sunday mum came home with a new Smithfield (or Stumpy Tail Cattledog) / Blue Heeler cross female puppy, who she had got from some people giving away a litter of puppies by the road. The Smithfield part of them means that they have no tail, which must give us the distinction of owning the strangest pets for kms around :-) (We also have a hairless Devon Rex kitten). We named it Jazz.

Strangely enough though, when we went on our Wednesday library trip into town I was talking to one of the librarians who reads my blog and she said that she had bought a puppy from the same people, only it was a boy! Hopefully the puppies will be able to meet each other soon, I’m wondering if they will recognise each other.

I’ve put some photos of Jazz in below, but my favourite is the one which shows her tongue poking out. That was a real chance shot.

Jazz the Stumpy Tail Cattledog #1
Here is Jazz and Sachi our cat sleeping together (well Jazz is sleeping anyway). Unfortunately this was a setup photo, they wouldn’t sleep together out of choice :-) .

Jazz the Stumpy Tail Cattledog #2
One of my attempts at an action photo.

Jazz the Stumpy Tail Cattledog #3
My favourite photo out of all of these. I took it quite by chance.

Jazz the Stumpy Tail Cattledog #4
This is Jazz trying to look mournful for the camera. She really like sleeping right in front of the door, which open inwards, not outwards.

Baby Rats Sold

Yesterday we drove into Rocky to pick up some furniture for my sister and to sell the rest of the baby rats (we had 10 to sell).

First of all we went to the big pet store in the Redhill shopping centre, where my sisters asked if they wanted any rats. It turned out they wanted all of the female rats (there were 7 of them) which they were willing to pay $2 each for. The rats had just been installed in their new cages when the girl working there had to ring her boss for some reason. The boss then said that he only wanted to pay $1.50 per rat, which meant that instead of receiving $14 dollars they would only receive $10.50. My sisters sold them anyway.

We then went to the Aussie Tender Centre to pick up the piece of furniture.

After picking the furniture up we drove down to another pet place that we knew of called Webby’s Pet and Grain Barn. Because we weren’t sure if they sold rats or not, one of my sisters ran in to ask. They did sell rats, so we all walked in. I went around taking photos of all the beautiful birds that they sell. Anyway, the owner of the pet barn was very nice and gave the girls the full $3 that they wanted for each rat. He also said that most of the pet-shops will rip you off when buying baby rats. For example, the first pet-shop that we went to only payed $1.50 for the rats, then sold them for $5.00.

All in all, it was a good trip into Rocky. Below is a photo of the Webby’s pet barn sign.

Webby's pet and grain barn

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