MOTW - Feb 17 - Feb 23 2013 - Lija

[Jenste]

Monday, tell us all about you! We know you obviously like amphibians, but we want to know about the rest of your life. Details about you, your life, hobbies, families, past times, favorite colors, poems you have written etc etc....just use this post to brag/boast/bore us how you please.

[Lija]

where to start, where to start.....

my name is Natalija, I live in Calgary, have 2 daughters, 15 and 7. Originally from Lithuania ( small country by the Baltic sea) we moved to Canada 9 years ago. my older daughter is a crested gecko breeder ( with our help of course), but she loves it, knows everything about it, younger wants to have a leopard gecko as her first pet. quite a normal family, right. my oldest is also national level rhythmic gymnast, currently on a canadian national team.
When i was younger i used to have a Turkish Angora cattery, did a lot of shows and traveling, at one point i had 9 cats + kittens, but when i left for university it was hard to keep it up, thus had to say good buy to that part of my life. Growing up i had a lot of pets, birds mostly because my parents were not appreciative lol of anything scaly, they say that if you deprive children of something they find it hard to stop getting it when they grown ups, that would probably explain our current zoo, my husband was in exact same situation.
Growing up I was lucky enough to work with zoologist university professor on number of things, including genetics of budgies and rehabilitating wild birds, but wanted to help as many animals as i could and went for DVM studies where i met my other half. We are together for 17 years now.

to be continued..... gotta go, today is family day in Alberta