animal visitors

As I mentioned in the heading of this blog, we never know who (or what) we will meet. These days we have had a few animal visitors of note.

Last week there was a stray cat that adopted us and mewed in just the right places for the kids to say, "Oh, Mommy, he's hungry, he wants his mommy, we must help him..." So we put out some milk and the skiddish kitten was soon ready to come inside and get cuddled which is not what this Mommy was looking for....especially when we saw it was a female cat which would mean kittens which is really not what I am looking for!! I am grateful that the kitten seemed to have the same feelings and after a few days, ventured off for better grounds.














Then Carl got the rare chance encounter with a baby porcupine while hiking with some visitors in the pouring rain. We were sad we all couldn't see it but were grateful for the pictures Carl brought back for us (yeah to the Olympus waterproof camera - that is a blog tribute unto itself that I will do at some point!!).


















Today Kahlil found a small green frog (the size of his pinky) while we were at the Visitor Facility (where I work on weekends) that he proudly carried around to show all who were interested and some who were not interested at all! I did not have the camera to capture this amphibian visitor, but Kahlil proceeded to keep it on his hand and name it and talk to it until at some point I guess the frogged hopped away (I never really did get the end of that story as I was distracted with some work).


Tonight we found a snake on the road in front of the house. Once determining it was not harmful (we do have 4 poisonous species in Trinidad), Carl held it, Kahlil held it and Kamala touched it while Mommy photographed. We all love snakes and generally all animals.


























We have several pictures of Kamala sitting in an infant seat as a baby with Kahlil holding various animals up to her face for her to see - frogs, crayfish, beetles. This one here is a mountain crab. I am pretty sure it is mainly because Kamala sees us holding and touching animals that she wants to get involved as well since her first instincts seem to be more on the squeemish side.

















I love all the wildlife that comes into our lives and the lessons they bring. We try to find at least the name of each animal we see and to read about some of its habits. This is all part of connecting with all that is around us and knowing that we are all one, we are all connected, we are all important!