I love you Smuvey, and a good layer of concrete, plastic and dirt with aquatic plants swiped from a nearby duck pond or lake will work for keeping the water from running off. Then you just need to top off the pond once a week during the dry season.
We're debating on getting a larger size kiddie pool and kind of burying it, add a filter pump and some plant *stuff* to it. We still have the pump from our humongous above ground pool from last year, that broke after LITERALLY less than 6 uses BY 2 KIDS!!! STDH and I were in the pool maybe twice. And it broke ON the PICs birthday!
Anyway, I've been checking out BYC and google and YT since we got them. Of course, the STDH doesn't understand that their current water supply has to be checked/dumped/refilled MANY times a day... freaked him out juuuust a little when he saw one *swimming* in the water dish! I about
Told him the quackers use the water for ERRRRRRRTHANG!!
I received a text for a 15ftx4ft deep above ground pool on sale. As a joke, I showed it to STDH and said it would be PERFECT for the duckies. The genuine look of shock on his face and I.Was.Dying. He thought the duckies were gonna REALLY need that big of a *pond*.
................................ I must stop picking at him... but it's SO MUCH FUN!!!!!
Buddy (Wiggles) is doing better... no seizures in a bit... but his old, jackass behaviour has been slowly returning. He's becoming food aggressive again... and just generally aggressive. Yesterday, he jumped up high enough close to the counter to pull down a full container of jut gathered eggs! They all broke, and he had to have eaten 6 if not more. We got it all picked up, got the floor cleaned up and threw out the stove rug.....
....... come 2AM, there is a HORRIFIC smell in the bedroom.... and it's where Buddy had a bout of severe raw egg diarrhea. Smells wake me up... and something like this... I woke up heaving. Not too much I could do about it but pick up what I could and cover the rest with
***baking soda***. Went back to bed.... STDH gets up at 5AM to take the Bubbies (brother puppies) out, and finds Buddy right in the middle of another liquid death bomb...... so he scoots everyone out... and I told him to put Buddy in his kennel.
Firs thing this morning, I am washing a diarrhea covered dog from being in his kennel with it... but I'm sorry, I couldn't keep him out to roam the halls and crap in every room in the house. We got him some rice and have been feeding it to him along with yogurt. STDH said he finally had a solid BM when he took him out this evening... and said to keep him out of the kennel. Personally, I think he still needs to be in his kennel this evening *just in case*,.. and especially since he is still passing quite a few nausea inducing hot egg farts..... but STDH said he'd take the hit if Buddy poops. I says you're sure as hell gonna *take the hit* cause I'mma punch you if Buddy poops in the room!
***Baking Soda*** I learned a LONG time ago, to cover damn near everything spilled on carpet or tile flooring with either baking soda or kitty litter. If something is spilled on carpet, most people cover it with a towel and then step on it... THAT doesn't soak up the liquid... but pushes it further into the carpet. If you take baking soda and sprinkle it on generously, it soaks up the liquid. This works especially well if you have stain guard on your carpet, but it still works better than putting down a towel on ANY carpet. It also works with diarrhea, and cracked eggs on the floor!
Really puts my petty problems in perspective...
