Critter Corner

We have a place on our porch called Critter Corner. Critter Corner is where we keep all kinds of snakes, mice, frogs, toads, fish, water bugs, insects, lizards, turtles, and salamanders! Just a few weeks ago, I caught a big rat snake that was in our old apple tree stump! I took the snake to Critter Corner, and he lived there for two weeks! Then after two weeks, I let him go.

We like to catch and keep animals on Critter Corner, because it is fun to watch them eat and grow. Right now, we have on Critter Corner two salamanders, three full grown mice, four baby mice, two Monarch caterpillars, and a few big wolf spiders.

 We first started Critter Corner, a few years ago when we started catching toads, frogs, and small insects. After we caught the insects or frogs, we kept them in a small container on the porch for a few days, feeding them until we were ready to let them go. But when we started to catch snakes, turtles, and lizards, we began to have problems. These reptiles were a lot bigger than the small frogs and toads we had been keeping, and if we were going keep them, we needed bigger containers. We looked everywhere for bigger containers, in the milking parlor, in the barn, and in the shop.

Finally, we looked under the porch, and there with a few other things was a terrarium! We carefully pulled out the terrarium and cleaned it up. After cleaning up the terrarium, Dad said we could have some old plastic shelves! We put the shelves on the porch and put the containers with the animals on them, and Critter Corner was created!

After that, we filled up Critter Corner with all kinds of mammals, insects, and reptiles. We all like Critter Corner and are very sad when fall comes and we must let all the animals go. Critter Corner always looks so sad with no animals on it, but every summer it is filled back up with the wild animals of Providence Prairie.

GENESIS 1:24 says: Then God said, “Let the earth bring forth living creatures after their kind: Cattle and creeping things and beasts of the earth after their kind, and the cattle after their kind, and everything that creeps on the ground after its kind; and God saw that it was good.

I am so thankful that God created land creatures, the fish, and the birds. I am also thankful God created man to enjoy his wonderful creation. I sure do, do you?

~Samuel