Posted by Nrgleeeeeeflump and WIGGGGNa (or Ted and Alice, as they prefer to be known).

Way back when one of the humans was heavy with its young she befriended a couple of ducks - us wiggly pets noticed that one of the ducks appeared to be heavy with young and waddling too!

Now we were all very excited about the appearance of the human’s wiggly woo - they only have one at a time can you believe it and they call it a baby! I now I keep mentioning this but I just find it so silly.

Anyway the human fed the ducks and cooed over them almost as much as Alice (she says at least she wasn’t threatening them with oranges and plums and shouting “sauce sauce”! I’ve tried to explain that I didn’t realise the origin of the human custom and would never have done it if I’d known - she is now rolling her eyes, which I think is most unfair).

The ducks made a nest behind the human’s house and we all watched them with interest. Unfortunatley the magpies got the eggs and everybody was sad; the human even cried - apparently they get like that when heavy with young. The ducks stayed however and soon were having a second brood. We Wiggly Pets, being naturally helpful creatures, decided that we would help scare the crows and magpies away from the new eggs and the humans helped.

Six little ducklings hatched and Alice got rather involved in looking after them (she says I’m not to mention the teaching them how to swim incident - so I won’t mention how she ended up at the bottom of the stream being nibbled by trout!). They swam around and only went down the waterfall a couple of time but they were all ok, much to everybody’s relief.

One day when the human’s wiggly woo was very small we were all having toast and crumpets by the fire when there was an awful sound; we thought Tim (one of the cats) had been cornered by a fox or something like that.

There was thumping and crashing from the where the humans keep their wood and coal in the gully in front of the house. We all rushed out side, the human first; she shone a torch down the dark gully and there was a squabble of birds!

Suddenly the mummy duck came crashing through and flew at the human making a lot of noise. We realised that she was trying to lurer the ‘predator’ away from the ducklings, having ascertained there was no danger to them we grabbed the camera for the human who took photographs of the ducklings as they came out of the gully and up the steps. (Alice is trying to interrupt but as she wacked me on the head earlier for mentioning trout I’m not listerning to her).

It was only when they did this that we realised they weren’t really ducklings anymore, but nor were they fully grown ducks and as one of them fell over on the cattle grid; we realised that we had teenager ducks and Alice almost cried at the fact they are all grown up.

Helping bringing up the ducklings was a very special adventure! Hope to see you all again next week.

Ted

I am very despondent; the camera which I use to take all the pictures of our fantastic adventures has been dropped in all the flood confusion so that I didn’t really get to take any pictures of us in London. (Alice says I should stop whinging as the humans aren’t back in their house yet and had to do without water and electricity and got sick as they didn’t know their water was contaminated - I don’t think she understands, they will get better, the camera won’t - she just hit me ).

Still, it has given me a chance to go through all the photos I took ages ago (Alice thinks I’m being big headed and wants me to point out that she took half of them and the humans took a lot of the others for us - I say Alice doesn’t understand the Art of Narrative).

I will get the pictures to you all shortly

Ted

The Wiggly Pet community in Gloucestershire have been flooded out this summer and so there has been some disruption to blogging and other general wiggly pet activities. The humans and their wiggly woo (baby) have been evacuated to London and hope to be back soon.

The wiggly pets shall continue blogging though this may not make it on line until the humans sort themselves out - in fact this post may not even go live for a while. Alice informs me.

The Wiggly pets hope that everybody out there is safe and sound.

We here it is being called the Great Gloucestershire Flood of 2007 and that there is even a book about it!

Things may seem erratic with the blog as we have spent the last few months trying to just stay afloat! But hopefully all will soon be well.

Bob

Posted by Nrgleeeeeeflump and WIGGGGNa (or Ted and Alice, as they prefer to be known).

Poor Blue (Alice’s kitten who the humans reckon is a toy and gave to their baby); in the end it took us over three days to track down the little bundle of fluff. It would appear that the baby gave it a severe gumming and then just left him discarded on the floor where Minnie, the black cat who is very jealous of any other kittens or cats, dragged him over to the fire place and hid him in a nook under the fire - fortunately, the fire wasn’t lit…

We think that blue was so traumatised by all of this that he just sat there in all the soot getting blacker and blacker. When we finally found him, thanks to one of the black and white kittens that live in the human’s house, he wasn’t even responding to all the little squeaky noises that Alice makes at cats and wiggly woos. In the end me, Zack and Jeff had to climb down into the dust and soot under the fire which was knee deep (Alice wants to state once again that this is wrong as we do not have knees; I’m not even going to respond this time.)

We waded our way through to Blue whose white patches really did look blue with all the grime in the poor little thing’s fur (Alice also wants me to stop calling Blue little as he is several wiggly pets long but I think the phrase gets over his youngness and vulnerability). We tied wool around his body in a nice harness type thing even though this did mean Zack had to use the poker to lever the kitten up so that we could pass the wool underneath him. Once that was done we climbed back out and proceeded to hoist the kitten out of the hole, which was very hard work I can tell you! (Alice says how would I know as I was only ’supervising’ the whole operation; I’ve been trying to explain to her that organising that sort of organisation is incredibly difficult. She’s tutting at me!)

Anyway, just as we finished tugging the kitten out onto the carpet one of the humans appeared and took him off of us saying that she’d put him through the washing machine. Alice was quiet concerned at this news but the human said she’d give us blue back in perfect condition. Even so Alice went and sat up on the washing machine door and watched a forlorn looking blue going around and around looking very soggy. She said the machine vibrated so much that it was hard for her to hold on and it made her arms go numb but she has to admit that after he’d been dried Blue did look much better.

All in all it was another successful adventure - hope to see you again soon

Ted

Posted by Nrgleeeeeeflump and WIGGGGNa (or Ted and Alice, as they prefer to be known).

Alice is beside herself with worry and we have all been out searching the house and grounds for Blue, Alice’s ginger and white kitten as seen in the photo. We think that perhaps the humans’ baby (wiggly woo) has got hold of it and we are concerned for its safety as though the wiggly woo wouldn’t mean to hurt it, it is a bit heavey handed and gummy!

Ted

Ammendent: turns out that Blue was with the humans’ wiggly woo and the humans informed us that Blue is a toy apparently and not a kitten. Alice refuses to believe this and is hoping to mount a rescue expedition tomorrow. The humans maintain that it was them who took Blue’s food away because it had gone mouldy. I don’t know what to believe myself and think that even if Blue is a toy it still has feelings and personality and therefore deserves to be rescued from a fate of endless gumming and milky drool!

Kitten training going well

Posted by Nrgleeeeeeflump and WIGGGGNa (or Ted and Alice, as they prefer to be known).

Well Alice has now been training her kitten for about a week and so far it hasn’t pounced or bitten anyone! Everyone is very fond of it too we have called it Blue becuase apparently the humans call people with red hair blue for some reason; I’m not entirely sure Alice heared that conversation correctly, but never mind! (She says she did and its because one of the humans comes from a country called Australia and thats what they do over there so I should shut up about things I dont know, I am actually quite hurt by this.)

Anyway we’ve been trying to get it to eat proper food and none of this mice business; this seems to be going very well - the strawberries we put in its bowl didn’t even go furry this last time before they disappeared! The kitten does appear to be a shy creature though, as it never eats or moves in front of us.

Alice and some of the guys gave it a bath the other day and shampooed its fur as it has some stains on it and didnt appeared to be cleaning itself at all! We’re thinking it may have been separated from its mother too soon as so didnt learn some of the basics like cleaning itself. Anyway it was actually quite funny becuase they dried it with a hair dryer and it went really fluffy!

Unfortunately they’d forgotten to use any conditioner so it took ten of us an age to comb the fur all flat again!

For some reason one of the humans seems to be cross with us over the kitten - we think it’s because they’re worried it will take over the existing cats’ territories or something and the other human seems to just chuckle the whole time it’s around us - not really sure whats going on there to be honest.

Still hope to see you all next week

Ted

Alice Found a Kitten!

Posted by Nrgleeeeeeflump and WIGGGGNa (or Ted and Alice, as they prefer to be known).

The humans who own the house we live in in Gloucestershire happen to have lots of cats which, for the most part, we get on with, wiggly pets being naturally freindly little creatures but some times we have a small problem with cat wiggly woos which are called kittens. These creatures are the sweetest looking bundles of fluff there is and happen to only be about ten wiggly pets in size but they are very - how shall I put this? POUNCY!

They are always catching us and batting us about and their teeth and claws are sharp! But they after all only babies and we realise they don’t mean any harm (Alice would like to point out that actually they do as they are training to be vicious hunters, something she’s hoping to train her one out of!).

Anyway Alice came in all excited becuase she could see a little ginger and white tail dangling over the edge of the dining room table, we thought that the kitten might be stranded up there - it may have been left there by an errant human or climbed up and not been able to climb down again so we set out to investigate.

So we quickly donned our climbing equipment and scaled the table and sure enough there was a little ginger and white kitten laying on the table, all cute and fluffy. To our immense supprise it did not instantly pounce us so Alice gingerly went over to it to see if it was ok.

It just sat there looking at us a bit soppy and vacant - Alice begain to get quite concerned as it did not respond to her polite enquiry as to whether it was OK, but a passing human assured us that it was fine and that there was nothing wronge with it. Alice then asked the human whose kitten it was and the human said it was theirs, but if she wanted she could have it as a sofa (We’re not sure what the human meant by ’sofa’ but it seemed to think we’d take it home with us) Alice by this point had fallen head over heels in love with the little ball of fluff and so agreed to adopt it!

We’ll let you all know how the training goes!

Ted

Posted by Nrgleeeeeeflump and WIGGGGNa (or Ted and Alice, as they prefer to be known).

Me and Alice came back from a nice day out to find that the humans had left their Wiggly Woo sitting in the half-dark twilight. The poor little thing can’t have been able to see very much so wiggly pets being naturally helpful creatures we decided that we would switch the light on for it. I’m sorry I still can not get over the fact that humans call their wiggly woos babies!

Anyway me and Alice fortunately had our paper clips and wool on us (Alice says, no, it’s a good job she had them on her as I’d just left my climbing equipement sitting on the ground and she picked it up in case it rained as that would have ruined it and it would have served me right).

Anyway we scaled the table that was up against the wall; I even got to tie and use a prusik loop to make the scaling easier! (Alice wants it noted that she infact had to take it off of me and retie it to make it safe - I think shes just a worry wort!)

Anyway we then had to dodge a kitten (a cat wiggly woo) which had climbed all the way up the curtain and pounced on us from the top of the window. However this did give us an idea of how we were actually going to get to the lightswitch, so we climbed up the curtains which is exhausting work for our little arms. Then we jumped up and down on the switch and finally got it to click but there was no light!

It turns out that the human’s RCD had tripped or something which ment that all their electricity had gone (Alice is rolling her eyes at me and muttering about residual currents; I’m not sure why). We decided that the wiggly woo might get scared sitting their in the dark so we decided to go and cheer it up.

Unfortunately Alice got pounced by one kitten en-route and I got pounced by another whilst trying to prize the first one’s teeth apart. Fortunately the humans fixed the lights and rescued us for which we are most grateful.

Still, it was another sucessful adventure!

Hope to see you all again soon

Ted

Posted by Nrgleeeeeeflump and WIGGGGNa (or Ted and Alice, as they prefer to be known).

Alice had heared some rumours from some of the guys that there was a mysterious flying lake up just outside the gate of where the horses live. Now Alice was wondering if it was one of the fabled hanging gardens of Babylon and kept on and on at me until I agreed to go on an exploration of the site with her.

So we packed up all the supplies we could possibly need and then discovered that being only a few cm high can have its disadvantages - ie we couldnt get the 60 litre rucksacks onto our backs so we had to reassess what we were going to take with us! (Alice would like to point out that this is one of the reasons that she dreads me doing the packing and would just like you all to know that I packed an inflatable dinosuar… well, it might have been useful.)

In the end we set off with just the tent (we had to sneak this back out of the humans cupboard they think its a flannel or something I think they wash themselves with it - strange creatures) our wool and paper clips incase we needed to do any proper climbing, some sizable cake crumbs and some strawberry cordial.

We set off - unfortunatly we had to wade our way along the gravel river which is vile and dusty and at one point to our horror one of those large smelly things that make the ground rumble grumbled passed us barely missing Alice, and sending dust and pebbles everywhere. I was choking so much I barely felt the pebble that knocked me off my feet and chipped my left arm! Still we dusted ourselves off and carried on.

We had to dodge around large bevelled cylinders of earth that the humans have scattered all over the place in this part of the Garden. The seem to be sort of elevated fields or something, they grow one or two plants in each pot, or at least that’s what we think is going on - you never can tell with humans, to be honest.

Finally we stood at the base of a vast white column that reached up up into the clouds! (Alice would just like it noted for factual accuracy that it didn’t even reach the cloud line, and was in fact not even two metres high, in fact it was bearly over one - I think Alice has completely missed the point of artistic liscense and what makes for majestic discription!)

We climbed up the column, which was very very tiring, and I was hoping that the lake was nice and cool for a nice long swim but when we got there we found that the water was a disturbing colour and there were about three types of algea living in it. Still the view was fantastic!

We are in fact still arguing over wheather it is one of the hanging gardens of Babylon (Alice says no we are not, I just wont listen to the fact that it is not hanging and so therefore cannot be).

Hope to see you all soon

Ted

From the Wiggly Nu (Chief Wiggly Pet Bob).

I am pleased to announce that thanks to popular demand we have set up a Wiggly Pets Photo Gallery where you can purchase some of the photos from the last few months on the blog. This can be as postcards or t-shirts, infact there are a few different types of merchandise avaliable. I hope you like them.

Bob