Our Animals & Pets

Bobby is our 10 year old Cavaliar King Charles Spaniel who still thinks he is a pup ... even though the grey on his muzzle and the more frequent 'poppy naps' during the day tell another story!  Bobby is actually the owner of Dreamcatcher Lodge and is sure to come knocking on the door at the cottage for a cuddle or share a sunny patch in the lounge with you!



These are our Alpacas ... Tameko is mum of beautiful young Kismet and is expecting at the end of the year.  Kismet is now  24 months old and a very dainty little girl with her four white bobby socks!   She is due to deliver Simmo's cria in November 2008.  Simmo comes from a different family and is the same age as Kismet.  He is a rose grey and a very handsome alpaca.  Tashi isn't in the photo but he is a wether and the brother of Tameko.  He is the guardian of the flock and frequently has 'words' with the goats when they encroach on his space!  They will all eat from your hand and come at a gallop when Greg cries "Pacas"!

Percy is our beautiful Peacock and is the source of the cat-wauling you may hear at dusk during mating season (early summer).  He spends his days tormenting the chickens in their yard and the nights perched up in the highest branch of the Ironbark behind the garage.  He is a great watchdog and lets us know whenever someone is approaching.  Here he is displaying his full glory in front of the chooks new 'Chook Mahal'!!!

 

Our chickens were all hand-reared and are quite happy to come over for a hello and to untie your shoelaces!  They are producing some yummy eggs!  Our neighbours have loads of chooks and roosters who supplement our egg requirements! 

Greg just build the chooks their very own McHilton ... they have taken to it very quickly and can survey the garden from their egg laying box through a window as they do their laying!

Our latest edition to the menagerie are two fan-tailed pigeons - Spicks and Specks.  Spicks is a soft grey

and white and Specks is a darker grey with a speck on his head.  Greg has turned the bird feeder into a bird house and the pigeons now hang around the front door and even come inside and cuddle up to Bobby!  Here is one of our little guests, Myles (with the help of his Dad), saying hello to Spicks.

 
We have an abundance of wild bunnies who come up close to the Lodge and Cottage in the evenings and early mornings.  They also play kamikaze rabbit across the road - we think they dare each other to dash across as we come up the driveway!  The babies are very cute at the moment.

Our wood ducks have had multiple generations on the dam - they spend some of their day next door and some in the dam so be careful going up and down the driveway.

We also have a multitude of finches, wrens, two regular kookaburras, sulfur-crested cockatoos, rosellas, honeyeaters, wood pigeons, egrets, hawks and eagles, crows, magpies, currawongs, galahs, black cockatoos and plovers who call Dreamcatcher their home for different periods of each year .... we don't think there is anything nicer than to be woken each morning by wild birds welcoming a new day though the crows are a source of angst - they like to steal the eggs from the chook yard - part of the reason for building McHilton!