One day while driving home from school, the kids and I spotted a baby bird in the middle of the road. Of course, we stopped to “rescue” it before it got ran over, and it was cold! It couldn’t fly (or so we thought), so we put it in a container for the night with the intention of buying a cage and food the next day. Kylie and Caden were observing it in the container when it showed us it actually could fly! And perched itself on top of Kylie’s wardrobe. We managed to catch it again thankfully.

The next day while Kylie was at school, Caden and I went to purchase a bird cage and food. But, when we got home the little bird was dead! Oh dear. Now, I had a birdcage and food but no bird. The most natural solution would be to go back and buy a bird, right? So we did. We bought two birds and two baby turtles all for about $5. The little songs of the birds were lovely but their poop was not. They lasted about two months and we recently decided it was time for them to be released into our neighborhood, the turtles got released too. Consider it a little learning experiment.

In our past 5 year in East Asia, we have had three baby rabbits (two quickly got sick and died, one was released before the same thing happened), two baby ducks (snatched out of our yard by rats when we lived on the first floor), lots of turtles and fish (mostly caught by the kids and all released back to the pond), three snakes (one escaped, but the other two are still around), and we have also kept several of our friends’ dogs (I don’t think I want a dog). It’s been fun!