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First, this piece of fanart is the sexiest thing ever. And it is even work-safe! As if Alucard in tight pants and a white shirt isn't enough to get my motor running, Integra looks super hot. The way she's sitting and her eyes just kill me. I love it. Artwork is by Solid&Etc, and I found it posted in the ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
integraxalucard community. I'm leaning toward that pairing, but I did have a bit of a fling with Seras/Alucard in the beginning. I totally didn't understand the love for Walter until I saw the 6th and 7th episodes of the anime (not the OVA). I have so much Walter love now that it is ridiculous.
So, I have this problem with taking in aggressive animals. Months ago, I got two red claw crabs. Within a few days of giving them a beautiful new habitat to live in, one of them was dead. Crab murder. No, I don't lie. I saw the attacks on the smaller one. I tried to split them up. I tried to make it work. The little one had a death wish because it continued to scale the fence and jump in with the big one. After the crabs, I got guppies. I was told guppies are peaceful. Not these guppies; they are aggressive. There were six, now there are four. Two of them were murdered by their fellows. Again, I tried to solve the problem. I did everything the folks at the pet store told me, including the installation of a high quality filtration system and a bubbler to oxygenate the water. I researched online. I read up. Nothing. The good thing? The four that remain are getting along, I think. Ferguson (my dog) is a dominant little bugger when it comes to other dogs. He gets along with them as long as they concede the position of leader to him. With people, he's a doll. He'd never even attempt to be aggressive with a person. Not that he and his chihuahua self would do much damage. But anyway, this *is* going somewhere...
I have two Chinese hamsters. They're miniature versions of hamsters. Anyway, they came from the same litter, they lived together before we got them, and they've been together since. I didn't have experience with hamsters, so I treated them as gerbils (which I do have extensive experience with). This was a mistake. This two girlies are way more aggressive than gerbils. Over the last month or two, they've decided that they dislike each other. One of them even has a few scars on its little tale to prove it. Half the time they get along famously, the other half the time they roll across the floor and fight in a little ball of fur. I thought they were just playing at first. After I saw the scars, I decided something needed to be done. There were only two solutions: split them up or get a bigger habitat. I like bleeding money for my animals, so I got a bigger habitat. A twenty-gallon aquarium, to be specific. I even went to the craft store and got supplies to make their house even more awesome. All in all, I dropped well over $60 on the little bastards. Now their tank has a look-out ledge, a second level with a house and bowl of food, two exercise wheels with two houses and a bowl of food on the bottom, and a climbing log. Jason is impressed with my balsa wood skills. I built the second floor and the climbing perch with it. According to all I've read, the extra space and multiple levels should clear up the fighting problem. We'll see...
We ate dinner at Bravo Cucina Italiana. I stuffed myself on bread and fried ravioli before my tortelloni even arrived. I love Italian food far too much. The restaurant is in the fancy-smanscy new outdoor shopping center in Uptown. Basically, it's a couple square blocks worth of stores in which I cannot shop because I have not the moolah to manage the price tags. Well, I could go to Starbucks, but I don't like anything on their menu. Anyway, as we were walking back to the car, we passed by a little dog clothing boutique. I squeed like Paris Hilton probably squees over dog clothes. Then I calmed myself and realized that every single sweater in the store was probably at least $50. No thanks. I can knit one myself for $10.
integraxalucard community. I'm leaning toward that pairing, but I did have a bit of a fling with Seras/Alucard in the beginning. I totally didn't understand the love for Walter until I saw the 6th and 7th episodes of the anime (not the OVA). I have so much Walter love now that it is ridiculous.So, I have this problem with taking in aggressive animals. Months ago, I got two red claw crabs. Within a few days of giving them a beautiful new habitat to live in, one of them was dead. Crab murder. No, I don't lie. I saw the attacks on the smaller one. I tried to split them up. I tried to make it work. The little one had a death wish because it continued to scale the fence and jump in with the big one. After the crabs, I got guppies. I was told guppies are peaceful. Not these guppies; they are aggressive. There were six, now there are four. Two of them were murdered by their fellows. Again, I tried to solve the problem. I did everything the folks at the pet store told me, including the installation of a high quality filtration system and a bubbler to oxygenate the water. I researched online. I read up. Nothing. The good thing? The four that remain are getting along, I think. Ferguson (my dog) is a dominant little bugger when it comes to other dogs. He gets along with them as long as they concede the position of leader to him. With people, he's a doll. He'd never even attempt to be aggressive with a person. Not that he and his chihuahua self would do much damage. But anyway, this *is* going somewhere...
I have two Chinese hamsters. They're miniature versions of hamsters. Anyway, they came from the same litter, they lived together before we got them, and they've been together since. I didn't have experience with hamsters, so I treated them as gerbils (which I do have extensive experience with). This was a mistake. This two girlies are way more aggressive than gerbils. Over the last month or two, they've decided that they dislike each other. One of them even has a few scars on its little tale to prove it. Half the time they get along famously, the other half the time they roll across the floor and fight in a little ball of fur. I thought they were just playing at first. After I saw the scars, I decided something needed to be done. There were only two solutions: split them up or get a bigger habitat. I like bleeding money for my animals, so I got a bigger habitat. A twenty-gallon aquarium, to be specific. I even went to the craft store and got supplies to make their house even more awesome. All in all, I dropped well over $60 on the little bastards. Now their tank has a look-out ledge, a second level with a house and bowl of food, two exercise wheels with two houses and a bowl of food on the bottom, and a climbing log. Jason is impressed with my balsa wood skills. I built the second floor and the climbing perch with it. According to all I've read, the extra space and multiple levels should clear up the fighting problem. We'll see...
We ate dinner at Bravo Cucina Italiana. I stuffed myself on bread and fried ravioli before my tortelloni even arrived. I love Italian food far too much. The restaurant is in the fancy-smanscy new outdoor shopping center in Uptown. Basically, it's a couple square blocks worth of stores in which I cannot shop because I have not the moolah to manage the price tags. Well, I could go to Starbucks, but I don't like anything on their menu. Anyway, as we were walking back to the car, we passed by a little dog clothing boutique. I squeed like Paris Hilton probably squees over dog clothes. Then I calmed myself and realized that every single sweater in the store was probably at least $50. No thanks. I can knit one myself for $10.
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Show us pictures of your hamster habitat!
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Guppies are not peaceful - they are sex mad and just love to snack on the offspring. I cried the first time one of mine gave birth - the other guppies were swimming underneath the mother swallowing the babies as they were born, I put the mother into a separate net enclosure and the others were trying to suck the babies through the mesh but I did save some, then the mother finished giving birth and promptly ate the few surviving babies... It isn't as bad when you have a tankful of the little monsters because you don't get so attached to them and you don't notice how viscious they are either.
Now you have put me off hamsters!
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Lucky you didn't get the hamsters I had to deal with when I worked in a pet shop. I called them vampire hamsters. Really nice looking, but nasty and terrified. Their first instinct was to bite and bite hard. I always had band aids and lost a bunch of blood to those guys. A family with kids wanted to buy one, but I wouldn't let them.