Spike - Naughty Boy

小帥哥今天的體重是398g. 之前三百八十幾我就在擔心太胖，現在低於四百我就覺得他很苗條。
還是得考慮一下，一天30g的食物會不會太多。(但是我又怕他沒吃夠)

我偶爾會在他的小木屋上發現大便，這有點嚇人。
該不會這小傢伙在晚上都有爬上木屋吧? 那他也滿厲害的(身手敏捷的胖子?!)就算他站在木屋上，應該也是無法蹺家，我只是擔心他會被保溫燈燙到。目前看起來應該他是搆不到保溫燈，不過他其實比我想像中的高(長?)。嗯 還是得小心為妙


喂 小胖 別讓我擔心阿

Annika

Gonna Blog about this two-year-old girl.
Part of the reason why I drove 8.5 hours to visit (and 8.5 hours back)
She's got the cutest eyes and rich facial expression.

She's very sweet.
When her mom parks the car, she asks: "You got it?"
When her grandma yawns, she asks: "You tired?"
When someone cough, she asks: "You OK?"
Often when you show her pictures of her, she says: "Sweet"
But when you ask her if she is pretty, cute or sweet, she says no.
I guess she has a weird concept for pretty.
She said that my glass-cleaning cloth is pretty.


She's got opinion already.
When her mom helped her put on the cute pink dress, she cried like something horrible happened.
But if you can distract her with something else, she'll forget that thing is on her until next time she has to put it on again.


She loves raisins and adores apple and orange too, I suppose.
If she loves you enough or if you are lucky enough, she might share some with you.
One time I peeled an orange for myself but gave it to her cause she wanted it.
I asked her to give me some (and even faked crying), but she just smiled and said no.
But after I believe it's never gonna happen, she gave me the last piece.
Smiling still.

It is very interesting to hang out with her.
One morning she shared quite a bit of her raisins with me even without me asking.
The only thing I said was: "Yummy?"
She just kept sharing and I was truly happily surprised.
Later on, she asked for more raisins.
So after getting her mother's approval, I handed her some more.
She smiled at me and said "thank you".
Man, it could melt your heart.


I believe she likes when the little boy, Luke Daniel comes to visit.
When he walked in, she pulled the toy over and sit at one side of it while asking him to sit at the other side.
When he was crying for his mother, she even pet him and said: "Don't cry." Also, she copied me saying: "she'll be back."
But then, when they start playing together, they always want the same thing at the same time.
There will be some arguing and none stopping "Mine!"
Maybe as her mom said, it's a love-hate relationship.


Although every baby has their cranky time, Annika does know how to be delightful.
Wherever she is, you can just constantly hear people say "how cute."
When we went to the bookstore, she said "Thank you" to the guy who held the door for us.
When we were at the restaurant, she says "hi" to the waitresses and people at the tables around us.
Oh, I said that also because I got my goodbye hug.

寵物的價值

老實說，小時候不懂事的我，也傷害過不少小動物。國小的時候好像有流行各式各樣的寵物一陣子，我因為不會照顧，也害死不少。Spike對我來說是第一個我真的考慮了很久，用心在養的寵物。在把這個小搗蛋帶回家以後，可能是因為計畫很久，也可能是因ptt特寵版認識了很多熱愛生命之人的緣故，開始認真思考寵物的價值到底是什麼。
最近聽了很多故事，剪了刺的刺蝟、被拋棄的寵物、因為藝術展被犧牲的兔子跟烏龜、還有跟著籠子一起被網路拍賣的兔子，每個都讓人心寒。
新聞裡那位害死了兔子跟烏龜的藝術家倒了歉，展場人員竟然還為他叫屈？！沒有用心的照顧，說再多都是藉口。無心之過難道不是過？過失殺人難道應該無罪開釋嗎？不會照顧就根本不該做這樣的展覽，知識不足的話，再怎麼盡力照顧，也不算盡力。
對，這些小動物都是可以用錢買到的，可是牠們不應該只是"商品"；牠們不是沒有生命、沒有感覺的物品，牠們也是可以感受到快樂與痛苦的。我懂什麼叫買兔子附送籠子，可是買籠子附送兔子是什麼？寵物的價值到底決定在哪？ Spike我是花了美金100塊買到的(台灣的朋友不要驚訝，這在美國算是便宜)，整理箱跟滾輪還有一些小東西是多加了65塊錢買的(breeder準備的，我覺得這樣很好，確保了這些小傢伙至少剛開始會有個好環境)，帶去看過一次醫生花了我68，溫控器花了我120，其他還有前前後後買了一些雜七雜八的東西，有些後來沒用上都丟掉，加一加，已經不知道在他身上花了多少。如果單用價格看，實在划不來，附加物品的"價格"已經超過主角的"價格"了，可是，寵物的價值實在不該只決定於牠的價格，生命怎麼能用數字去衡量？我想，我們也不會在人身上定一個數字吧？(就算再高也是不合理的)。有很多的小動物，都能被用很低的金額購買，可是，生命該是無價的，這不是一般商品壞了再買一個那麼簡單的。
我不記得，以前有什麼時候在學校上課被教導尊重生命的觀念。當我們把邏輯、數字都搞的那麼清楚的時候，是不是還該加上一課生命的價值呢？

Spike - The Life

懶惰了很久，又很久沒寫Blog了。看來我預測是對的，三分鐘熱度的我是不可能維持一個Blog的...

把這怪到Spike頭上好了，生活那麼規律，我都不知道寫些什麼。
我每天下班回家就開始幫他弄吃的並打掃他的小窩。等到一切都準備妥當，才把小傢伙叫醒。
這時候，他都會先進行第一件大事
剛開始我都以為那只是刺蝟的天性使然，要像鴕鳥一樣躲起來，後來才發現他其實在做一件非常重要的事情
拉屎！

維持在388g上下好一陣子的體重，今天來到406g我開始懷疑體重計了，一定是體重計污賴你，你沒有那麼胖對不對Spike? 每天都那麼勤奮的跑滾輪一整晚，怎麼會這樣呢...貓食也是買高蛋白低脂的阿...可能是肌肉比較重吧 (一直自我安慰的主人，怪了，我又不是胖的那個)
我想你大概也不在乎吧?

Detailed Instruction 詳細的指示

When my mom was here visiting me, we bought a shoe rack and assembled it.
當老媽來找我的時候，我們買了一個鞋架並把它組裝好。
The instruction is like this:
組裝指示是這樣的:There's number at the top-left corner of each plot that you can follow through.
每個圖的左上角都有數字好讓你可以跟著一步一步做。
Now look closely to plot #5, you can see a completed shoe rack.
仔細看圖五，是一個已經組裝完成的鞋架。
But how come there is another plot after that? (The one I hid with a black block)
可是為什麼在那之後還有一個圖呢? (我用黑色方塊遮起來的那個)

Because that shoe rack company will like to remind you...
因為鞋架公司提醒您...not to forget to throw trash away.
別忘了隨手將垃圾丟掉！

ps.
Should I keep the box since no one told me to throw that away?
既然你沒說要丟紙箱的話，我是不是該把它留著?

Spike - Home Improvement

感恩節前後，因為老媽來找我，所以我的Blog荒廢了好一段時間。

今天要來講一下繼Spike - Accommodation 住處跟Spike - Accessories之後，Spike的住處又升級啦!
這什麼怪東西？這就是現在Spike住處的外觀。為了讓Spike這個畏光的小朋友在不影響我看電視的情況下(原來還是為了自己 :P)享受比較陰暗的環境，我去買了一個(人用的)毯子來蓋Spike的整理箱。因此還得為通風以及不干擾滾輪加了一根隨手拿來本要當垃圾丟掉的棍子在整理箱邊上，做支撐毯子的架子，不過實在太簡陋，就不照相存證了。現在一邊是那根爛棍子，一邊是保溫燈在支撐那條毯子。
這個作法還帶來一個意外的功能，就是保暖。這幾天越來越冷，即使保溫燈全開，有時還是要很久才能達到設定的溫度，甚至有時即使"火力"全開溫度還不升反降，畢竟整理箱是比較開放的空間吧，我想。現在蓋了毯子，溫度都能維持，算是一個意外的收穫。

接下來這張照片重點有點不明顯。其實只是墊在飲水器跟整理箱中間的closet liner(這東西中文是啥? 我在台灣沒用過)。"好像"有稍微減少一點Spike喝水時的聲音(也極度有可能只是心理作用)。

接下來，重點來了!!我也不知道這刀叫什麼名字，只記得國中的時候上工藝還是美術之類的課用過，後來沒再用以後大概是丟了。這次老媽來之前，我跟她提了一下，因為不知道名字，只好用小畫家畫了個簡陋的圖寄給她。我本來是不抱希望的，沒想到老媽真厲害，在那麼短的時間裡竟然買到了。這東西當然不是給Spike用的啦。我只是有鑑之前把整理箱弄裂，想要一個更好用的東西來改造Spike的家。我覺得還滿好用的。先在整理箱上劃線、作記號，然後用這刀"挖"過一遍，裡外都挖過後，那槽中的塑膠就變得很薄，這時候只要再稍微用美工刀劃過，就可以把要割下的部份輕鬆移除了~(好像講得太容易了點^^")
托這工具的福，現在滾輪是架在整理箱上了，他跑步時的聲音似乎也小許多，加上沒有了鐵架之後，便盆超出滾輪的部份面積也變大了，我總覺得Spike居住的環境越來越舒適了(我覺得也沒用，這小傢伙好像沒差=.=)。下次再來看還要改造什麼吧，嘿嘿。