The first pet to join us was Milo. He was a few months old, we got him from a shelter that partnered with PetSmart.
Now he's a cranky old man of 10 years.
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A little over a year later, a neighbor knocked on the door and offered me a handful of fluff that she'd found on her back porch. We didn't even know if he was going to make it.
Now Oliver is an old man too, 9 years.
I don't think we even got pictures of Taryn's rats. They only joined us in April of this year. Taryn turned 13 in May and it seemed like a good time to get her a pet of her own. Rats weren't what we had in mind, but that's how things went. They came with their own cage, which is significantly larger than we intended.
The aquariums are different stories. I had received an aquarium kit for Christmas, I don't even remember how long ago and finally got it set up in November 2018 with a tiny baby betta.
I didn't get any good pictures of him with his full-grown adult fins. He died in June on the anniversary of Tim's mom's passing. I was pretty broken up about it, I didn't know I could be so attached to a fish.
Once he'd died, I left the tank and snails to "cycle" for a month and then Jenny brought over some baby fish from her tank and an all black betta fish for Caelie. I don't have pictures of any of those fish either. I started with 4 adult guppies in different colors and patterns, then 4 orange babies and 4 white babies. That was mid-July. Currently I have 8 adult guppies, the 4 orange ones aren't full grown yet, plus 3 mid sized baby guppies that were born in my tank and another 5 tiny baby guppies that were born more recently. I'm going to have to start feeding fish to Caelie's betta soon and I have mixed feelings about it.
Oh, I lied, I have a picture of Caelie's tank with a blurry betta in it. I kind of feel like his tank is thematically prepared for the population control that is coming soon.
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