Living with Anteaters

Dreams really do come true. There is a rotten, buggy tree stump in the house! Gonna have fun tonight. Neighbor does landscaping and it was in his trailer so we asked and he let us have it. Grampa chopped it in half so it'd fit through to door so really I got half a stump but still cool.

Feb 15th
2AM Really enjoying my buggy tree stump
The camera didn't save the photos of me on the stump last night but here is Ori

Clawing at a tree stump

Did you bring treats?

Feb 16th
11AM Up for ketchup!

11:30AM Having some breakfast.

11:45AM Okay back to bed but I made mom give me some ants for desert first.

12:37PM Ori has been up clawing the stump and had a few ants and is now grooming.

1PM She went back to bed after grooming.

Feb 17tH
‎1 AM and I Ori, Aurora and I just got up. Mom was mumbling something about us being lazy.

1:28AM Nap time!

Ori plays with the parrot toy
She broke one of the wood rings off.

You might notice I got linoleum on the shelf now. Yea for easy clean.

10:22AM Up having breakfast

10:34AM Wouldn't go back to bed till I got some ants.

3:49PM Some people came to see my royal self today. I said hi and took them on a lovely stroll in the woods. I was a bit annoyed when they didn't want to be done when I was. They seemed to like Ori better but someone has to be the court jester or maybe we could call her the press liaison.

Blanket house
We had guests and no way to get the pee pad house looking nice so this worked. The inside is clean they have only been peeing on the roof.

Thinking of trying a house made from a giant rubber maid so I only need to change bedding and not wash a whole house.

Ori getting comfy

So on the walk today someone asked if I was a ferret. Then when told anteater he goes "oh an aardvark" See I told you. *Points to what people think anteaters are photo from yesterday*

Pua eating take 1 -
It's not right to watch a lady eating

Pua eating take 2 -
Going into the washer

Quasi models the new Oregon Ducks jersey

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What is this stuff

I see presents
She got her pink blanket, ketchup, cheese, a tongue toy(kong like thing), and a caterpillar.

Pua Tamandua christmas Presents

Pua getting her gifts.

Yummy toy with cheese inside

Pua eatng her Christmas caterpillar

Jupiter chews his Christmas basket

Jake on the kitty blanket

Ho hum , When's the New Years Party?
Pua dug down into the clothes and is sitting in the hole

Pua tamandua closet play time

Anteater playing in the closet

I'm gonna get you

You can't get me now

Come on up and play

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Jake under the blankets with me

Jupiter gets a puppy lesson
Hyzzie tries to teach Jupiter to tug a sock toy.

oops
Pua takes advantage of a hole in the hammock back. I blame Mandua, ha. He must have done it while here. Pua doesn't tear holes in her hammocks like the boys do.

Getting some air
Poking her little nose out of the pocket.

It's a hammock
I put this up to try and make Mandua feel safer going from shelf to shelf.

Pua found it annoying and grabbed the shelf around it to pull up then started using the hammock for just one claw hold as she'd go up.

Last night she was dozing on the shelf and it dawned on her that this is a hammock, though a small one.


Small town Christmas parade

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Oh no laundry day

Pua's nipples now '10

Why are we looking at Pua nipples. Well why not, lol. The first were here "teen boobies" and the other is now. The other reason is we do not know if the attempt to get Pua pregnant at the end of September was a success or not.

I feel her signs so far are inconclusive.

She did not have her obvious monthly spotting but sometimes we seem to miss that.

She showed interest in her self soon as Mandua left and enjoyed her own company for a few days. This was a week early if it was from her being in Estrus/heat. She showed a tiny bit of interest in herself the 27th which would have been on time but that was it. Maybe she's just having fun or her hormones might be funky if she's pregnant.

I her belly is bigger and firmer but she is also a pound heavier than last weigh at 17 pounds so could just be her winter weight.

Now if you look at the pinching photos you can see a stain on her private bits there. This happens from time to time and I figured collected pee staining or vaginal secretions. Well she's had that every night since before Mandua left and I looked at some under the scope to see if was estrus fluid and only saw epithelial cells, no blood. They were orange, apparently stained by her pee. So could be increased vaginal fluids due to early pregnancy or could just be nothing.

So we will have to wait and see if she has any signs of cycling the end of November as if we are still unsure an ultrasound should show something at 2 months. Seems we could test for progesterone based on the one study but the hormones didn't spike enough until 2 months either.

Oh yeah so nipples. In cats the "pink up" but seems to me hers have had that white/pink tip for a long time even though not in her teeny boobies photo.

So the short version, nothing to report here.


And now, Jake is about a year old as we got him end of last November at about 3 months. He's a big boy now.

Jake and Kat

Jake showing off his long legs

Guess my Halloween spirit was a bit miss placed.

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