Cali and Ranger

Guess who:

The above photo is of Sapphire and Slush standing next to each other. Quite shocking really how different they look at the moment. Slush is near enough totally black where as Sapphire is still quite clearly and Arctic fox. 

Weather in their summer or winter coat I think they both look amazing. I must get some better photos of the whole of Slush so you can see how very adorable he looks. 

As well as looking quite different Slush has also looked very cold. It seems the hot weather has left us and in it's place has been left rain and grey sky's and so it has also been rather chilly. Thankfully I had plenty of blankets to give Slush to keep him warm so he seems fine as does Sapphire who in the last 3 days has really been catching up with the shedding. 

As well as having two very different looking Arctics we have gained 2 bouncing baby vulpes vulpes! 

As you all know we were all totally heartbroken when Freyja passed away. She was here for such a short time and yet left a HUGE gaping hole in our hearts so we decided that though nothing could every bring her back we still had love to give and so we made the decision that we would get another. 

Early last week we saw some platinum white mark vulpes vulpes for sale. I am very fond of platinum foxes and so I suggested that we get one.  My partner agreed so off we went to get a platinum fox. . . or so we thought. . . 

Upon our arrival we met 3 female foxes; one platinum and two platinum gold. The first one I held was a platinum gold and was very, very cute. The second was the platinum and she was adorable but a bit of a biter and the third . . . The third my partner was holding and she stole my heart. 

It was still quite hellish trying to choose between them all. They were all so very playful with each other but Cali just looked so very beautiful I just had to have her! 

SO this is Cali the platinum gold Vulpes Vulpes:

Cali adores attention from anyone willing to give it and is even quite fond of having her photo taken:

But her FAVOURITE thing in the world is her cat teaser

Once we had Cali my other half decided that he would quite like a silver fox. As Cali will be moving outside when she is about 6 months old it would be cruel to make her live out there alone.

Ranger is a silver phase Vulpes Vulpes. As quite obviously my partners favourite phase is silver I was not going to hear the end of it until he got his own little fox. 

Ranger is the youngest and the most mischievous. Much like Cali he adores any and every one and even Valla seems to think he is a wonderful playmate. . . I wonder if he reminds her of Freyja? 

Here he is setting the sat nav for home:

  

And enjoying the cat teaser like the crazy little guy he is:

So that is everyone!

All the kits are taking very well to litter training and are learning tricks amazingly fast due to their age and their love of food.  

I am pretty sure that is us done as for getting foxes. . . Well until some bat eared foxes pop up hehe. 

Oh we also have a little red vulpes vulpes by the name of Secret but like his name he is top Secret shhh!

April 28th - May 20th

Sorry for the delay in my posts but my PC has been acting up. Can't live with them, can't live without them. . . Well I suppose I could live without my PC but I would have to hand write the blog multiple times and have hand drawn sketches of the foxes which with my kindergarten level of drawing would be less then enjoyable for you all.

April 28th was Valla's 1st birthday! Gosh it is hard to believe that it has been a year since my baby girl came home. So much has happened in that time which has shaped her into the wonderful girl she is today. I just cant believe how beautiful she is!




As you can see she got 3 plush animals ( 2 foxes,1 Eeyore) and a birthday cake made of dog chews which was also filled with chews. She also got an Elefun which is a children's toy that is shaped like an elephant that blows butterfly's into the air for children, or in this case foxes to catch. I think her favourite was her Elefun which her and Harry played with for ages each hoarding butterfly's in an opposite corner of the room to each other. Needless to say we did not have a second round for quite some time.


























Amazingly all of Valla's soft toys are still in one piece apart from the Eeyore who like all of her Eeyores she has removes the tail from. I really have no idea why she does this but she does. Maybe she knows that in Winnie the pooh Eeyore is always looking for his tail?

In other news Sapphire and Slush are shedding BIG time! Their summer coats are coming in fast, Slush's more so then Sapphire's but they are both looking so different.

With Sapphire it all started with her eyes:


Then her mouth and snout joined in:


And that's about where Sapphire has remained more or less for a couple of weeks. Slush however started by getting darker:



Then his spots amalgamated:




Then his whole coat looked like it was going to just fall out:


Then his face got darker:


and today:


He's suddenly almost black!
Here he is next to Sapphire so you can see the difference:


Her back leg has just begun where as he is ready for summer! I wonder if Slush will have spots again next winter?

Oh and the white things on the ground are duck down from the duck down pillow that we opened and poured into Sapphire's house and fur from the two of them.

So the other day Akiko was playing with Sprite while I was painting the wood work in a room. She was very brave unlike any of the other foxes and started to play with Kikomo the Bengal cat who, being twice the size of her quite liked having a tiny critter to play with.

At one point Kikomo decided that leaping onto Akiko from atop his scratch post would be glorious fun which Akiko did not agree with and from that moment on decided not to play with him. He worried the poor girl so much that she literally pooped herself!


Clearly it was time to play with Sprite on the bed.






When Sprite wandered off to find Valla to play with Akiko went to investigate the decal I had just put on the wall.


She seemed a little worried by it all.


Maybe it was due to the size:


So she jumped down and came to watch me paint. What I didn't notice however was that I had left the lid to the wood paint on the floor within reach of the little tyke who then walked over it and started to paint the floor:
 

You just have to love the guilty look on her face hehe!

Until next time!

Happy Easter!

Okay we may be a day late but Easter is very busy in the Flashman house hold with so many fur kids and one human one we have been been run off our feet!

Everyone got a big plastic Easter egg filled with yummy goodies and a plush rabbit toy. . . They also all got rabbit for dinner but I promise it was not the Easter bunny!

As Audrey was making Easter masks in the morning by time Akiko got out of bed Audrey was done and there was allot of craft stuff left over so we thought we would have some fun with the presentation of Akiko's eggs.















The following photos are sort of freaky but they are where Akiko is chewing:

OMG! No Peeps?!


We hope everyone had a most wonderful Easter!

Until next time.