TeaTime Critter Connections

28/07/2024

Well sadly between the COVID years, and the aging and even passing of many of our embassadors we have decided to bring an end to TeaTime Critter Connections. Thank you everyone who supported us through the struggles. Unfortunately it just hasn't been enough to keep us afloat. Maybe in the future we can come back, but for now, goodbye and thank you!

16/11/2022

So here is going to be a kinda mass update. Like I said in my last post, we have a lot going on so it's going to take a good bit to officially catch everything up, such as our cover photo which is gone for some reason. Any way we have a different assortment of critters now! We still have our beloved sugar gliders, Maybel the python, Cinder the Bearded Dragon, and Duncan and Bruno the bunnies. Duncan's got a girlfriend named Nóra now though! Cieran the Goat finally got moved up here, but needs some retraining in his manners. New comers we have are Potato the Honduran Curly Hair Tarantula, Penelope the African Pygmy Hedgehog, and Lewis the Chinchilla. We are currently limiting who can attend shows pending my ability to get assistance, because we are expecting a new little bundle of our own February 5th!!! Nóra is the bunny in the picture below!

10/11/2022

Just want to say that we are still here. I have a lot to catch this page up on, but Facebook is being weird with it, so I will update as I can!!

27/02/2022

Although he's still in public place training, this handsome fellow is such a natural that I will go ahead and announce him! This handsome fella is Leo the Peruvian guineapig! Leo and his family were abandoned on the first of January, and we took them in. Leo needs a bit more public training to finish learning that being in public doesn't mean he'll be abandoned again, and then this super chill guy will join our Small Animal group for shows!!

26/02/2022

As humans we dont always see the world like other animals do. We often miss out on some of the world's beauty, but simple technologies allow us to see what we otherwise wouldn't. Like in this example, ultraviolet light (UV, aka Blacklight). Our simple little blacklight flashlight opened a whole new world in our home! Check out how our animals looked with UV vision! Some will probably surprise you as much as it did us! My phone camera couldn't pick up all the details either, so the only way to get the full aspects of UV is to book a show with us and request UV!!

27/12/2021

As of yesterday everyone is back home! We will be available for shows again after New Years!

14/12/2021

Now that we have cellphone service again I can give an update. We where very lucky with the tornado that hit us Friday. Everyone survived and we have no damage, but we are currently without power, and are under a Water Boil order. That being said we've had to evacuate most of the animals for their safety with the cold, and we will not be able to do any shows until everything is back to normal

24/10/2021

Once we get this handsome boy moved closer to us, he will also join our program as our first large animal! Meet Cieran (k-ear-ran) the Goat! This little stud muffin has been a peoples goat from the very start! Look at his smug face after being called handsome!

18/10/2021

We have 2 graduates into our program! Meet Penelope the African Pygmy Hedgehog, and Gomez the African Pygmy Dormouse!

10/10/2021

Sometimes a long life makes the goodbye that much harder. I grew up with Rocky. He was one of the animals that sparked my love for animals and has lead my life to this point. He was silly, grumpy, loved to destroy his toys and jingle his bells, was extraordinarily loud, and I'll be it s*xist against men, but he was the perfect him he could be. Today my friend was laid to rest, and my life will forever be different. He lived well past the average lifespan for Sun Conures, and that extra time was so precious. Fly high my dear friend

29/09/2021

We will be in Nashville this weekend with our rabbitry! What do you guys think of my Critter Connections display?

18/09/2021

It has been a while since our last post, but we are still here! We have just been a bit busy with training, and with having some visiting critters while my mom works on moving!

25/08/2021

What a big ol shed we got from Mabel! It's broken up some though, so that means we need to adjust her humidity again

08/08/2021

We will be at this expo with our Rabbitry! If you have reptiles you will definitely want to enter in this drawing too!

Almost time

04/08/2021

Come see Duncan at our Rabbitry booth!

Next Paris Expo August 14th and 15th 2021.
NEW location not far from the old venue.
1937 east wood st. Paris TN
Sat 10am-5pm Sun 10am to 4pm
Admission $2
Free parking
See page for more info.

04/08/2021

So we have an embassedor in training that we haven't announced yet. Some of you know her already, but I want to see how many can guess what she is. Two hints: she is nocturnal and gave us these. What do y'all think she is?
**I was hoping more people would play along, but she is indeed a hedgehog!

01/08/2021

Mabel girl is such a vision outside. My favorites have to be her in the pear tree ❤ (typing this my brain immediately went "🎶 On the fist day of Christmas my true love gave to me, a python in a pear tree.🎶" 😆). Who would y'all like to see natural pictures of? I will take them and post them if the critter can go outside!

28/07/2021

You guys are getting a sneaky peaky at our new brochure! Nothing on it is set yet, but we are almost ready to print! Big thank you to Mendenhall for allowing us to use some of your pictures!!

26/07/2021

As the rat pups get older, mama Stella has been letting me work with the pups more and more. We finally got to s*x the pups. There are 5 girls, and one little boy. They already are enjoying head rubs ❤. We only dare to get this involved with the pups because we raised their mother from this age. Do not try to play with the pups of a rat you do not know this well! You will get bitten!! Rat bites suck and can easily get infected, and mama rats do NOT mess around with anyone they don't trust!!

25/07/2021

Looky here! Papa rat Bullseye passed on his namesake side mark! It's the only one of Stella's babies with the mark. Still waiting on Mango to have her litter

21/07/2021

Here is the best picture that mama Stella would let me get of her 6 little ones. She's not a fan of me poking around them, but allows me to do my twice a day health checks on them. Who knows, there might be a pair of embassedors in her nest ❤. That being said in roughly 6 weeks they will also be looking for new homes, so feel free to pm us if you might be interested in a pair!

19/07/2021

So this has been a WILD day. No pun intended. So first our baby lizards, then our new baby rats, then I went to check on our feeder mouse litter...but apparently this guy beat me to them. Holy frigging cats! So this is a WILD juvenile Grey Rat snake. Based on its size it's only a few months to maybe a year old. Of our years breeding mice this was definitely a first. So this fiesty little one bit me about 3 times before it realized I wasn't going to hurt it. Now in Tennessee it is ILLEGAL to kill ANY snake (not that I would've anyway), and (kinda bummer) illegal to keep wild caught native reptiles. This baby was lucky to find itself in the house of someone who loves all animals, or release sadly would not likely have been its fate. This guy has been relocated, but not before eating 7 of the 9 mice that where supposed to go to Mabel. (I had a nice video, but shortly after taking this screen shot during it, my phone decided to get rid of the video 🤦‍♀️)

19/07/2021

It's a baby palooza over here today as we have some blue tail skink lizards hatching out, and we are welcoming one of two surprise rat litters. We expect the second litter to be coming soon too! Videos and pictures coming!

17/07/2021

We have set up a website page for Critter Connections on our Rabbitry website. The page contains information for our embassedors as well as our pricing!!

16/07/2021

It's World Snake Day!! Happy snake day everyone! We would love to see your beautiful snakes or wild snake pictures!