So I went to Lakeside shopping centre yesterday - did I tell you I hate shopping? I did need lots of new clothes so it wasn't all bad except all I bought was a pair of wellies. Seriously we had a good time, the pasta I had for lunch was only slightly stodgey and there was just about enough sauce to cover the top of it (insert rolleyes icon). Nah, it was ok and the icing on the cake was when the boot suddenly opened when we pulled away from a roundabout on the m25! Cue me running along the verge to retrieve the boxes that had fallen out in front of the car behind, eek!
All in all, it was a great day, when I got home Liz arrived with a newly shaven Leo who bloody pee'd on my bed while I was trying to take a pic of him looking all cute. Little bugger!
Monday, 16 February 2009
Saturday, 31 January 2009
Before I Forget - Meet Leo
So here's Leo - aka Little Shit! I mentioned him in an earlier post. The bugger has learnt to only respond to us if we call him Leelee, which is embarassing if you're out with him - everyone thinks he's a girl! Well, I suppose that even things out a bit as everyone automatically think Bailey's a male (even when she's wearing her pink harness, lol).Full House Again
So work has been crazy busy over the last week, lots of highs and lows. Sadly we had to have one of our older cats PTS. Roxy was 15yrs and had hyperthyroidism and a bad liver but she died of a completely unrelated tumour by her pancreas. Although she was a bit of a madam - especially when it came to taking her meds - she will be greatly missed by us and her sister, Star, who has been acting a bit lost the last few days. RIP girly. Another low is that we have a full house again, just when we were doing so well with rehoming, nevermind though as we've got plenty of friendly moggies we just need to get the public in to see them! Luckily we've been swamped with volunteers lately so us staff members have had a lot of time with our feet up, lol.
At home we've discovered a mouse problem in our shed - who'da thunk it! - I mean we have 3 cats out of 5 that spend a lot of time in the garden and one or two dogs running around so god knows where they're hiding! So today we've had a mass clear out and you wouldn't believe how much crap we had in there - litter tray covers, cat carriers, garden chairs etc. I think they'd taken a fancy to the bags of cat/dog food we had stored in there. Fortunately they have now been removed so no more mices.
And lastly, Bailey went to a Tennington Touch class today which is a holistic treatment to calm an animal down. My sister phoned me to say she was wrapped up in bandages but completely fine with it - I can't wait to see the pics!
Saturday, 24 January 2009
Time For An Update
It's been a while since I've updated this blog so I thought I'd give it a go now. I've been so busy since I last posted and yet I've not got a lot done. Let's see; in addition to the two cat's below Liz adopted a puppy back in october. At around only four weeks old he was thrown out of a moving car probably because he was covered in mange and she picked him up, on a speedy decision, I hasten to add, when he was 8/9 weeks. As she got him so young and suddenly he's kinda had to make a second home with me - which isn't as great as it sounds. He's a little terrier cross breed who is cute until you catch a whiff of him and he has no manners at all - he's untrainable, and I swear it's not through lack of trying! Now he's six months little Leo comes to mine at least twice a week and winds the household up. Bailey puts up with him to a degree and the cats will definitely give him a swipe if he gets too close, I sticks his head in the water bowls then dribbles it around the house and he doesn't eat normal either, I'm always finding food everywhere. At least he's housetrained now, though he still pee'd on my uggs last night!
Bailey's doing well now after she had to spend the day at the vets in november, she was throwing up constantly and almost collapsed so they admitted her and put her on a drip. The poor thing stressed so much she needed to be sedated after pulling her IV out three times. It took a week for her to get back to normal and she lost so much weight. She came home with four different types of tablets which weren't easy to give at all, more than once I got so frustrated I shouted at her when it wasn't her fault at all. We still don't know exactly what was wrong but thank god for insurance!
My oldest bunny, Willow, still isn't that well, it got to the point where I had to get her her own hutch as she pees on everything still. I think she's got a tumour pressing on her bladder as antibiotics didn't make any difference. She's ok for now, I don't think she's in pain or discomfort, but I don't know how I'm going to cope when the weather gets warmer and the flies come out. I've been on a few rabbit forums and everyone says to bring her indoors but she nearly five and has always lived in the garden, she just gets stressed if I bring her in and I don't want to do that, I'd rather she live out her days in her own hutch. I can't believe it's nearly a year since I lost her sister days after having a tumour removed.
My cat's are all well, Tilly's getting younger by the day. The other day I risked my life trying to groom her and in the end got the scissors out. I didn't realise how much I'd cut off until she stood up - her whole left hip is now bald! It's 'cos all she does is sleep she gets 'bed head' all over. And after only 18mths she's more tolerant of Max who now spends most nights under the duvet with me - I don't have a choice! Oh yeah, Millie had an abscess on her tail in october so I had to take her to get it flushed out, that was fun! She had to have the base of her tail shaved, I still wonder what the neighbours thought of it (I live next to a block of maisonettes where a lot of elderly people live and she visits them in their gardens, one lady calls her the cat with all the whiskers).
Work's been so busy, what with the credit crunch people aren't hesitating to leave their cats, in some cases literally leaving them outside the building. One day I found an empty box outside but fortunately the little old lady cat inside had gone between our two buildings so we got her in safely. We've never been so busy, we're licenced for 46 cats but lately have had 60+! We've had to resort to putting up some temporary cages as well as using our three kitchens and two offices as housing.
So that's basically what's happened the last few months, I realise I've only spoken about my pets but then I guess they are my life. I've recently gotten myself a laptop so I vow to post her more often and I'll definitely be adding pics at some point.
Bailey's doing well now after she had to spend the day at the vets in november, she was throwing up constantly and almost collapsed so they admitted her and put her on a drip. The poor thing stressed so much she needed to be sedated after pulling her IV out three times. It took a week for her to get back to normal and she lost so much weight. She came home with four different types of tablets which weren't easy to give at all, more than once I got so frustrated I shouted at her when it wasn't her fault at all. We still don't know exactly what was wrong but thank god for insurance!
My oldest bunny, Willow, still isn't that well, it got to the point where I had to get her her own hutch as she pees on everything still. I think she's got a tumour pressing on her bladder as antibiotics didn't make any difference. She's ok for now, I don't think she's in pain or discomfort, but I don't know how I'm going to cope when the weather gets warmer and the flies come out. I've been on a few rabbit forums and everyone says to bring her indoors but she nearly five and has always lived in the garden, she just gets stressed if I bring her in and I don't want to do that, I'd rather she live out her days in her own hutch. I can't believe it's nearly a year since I lost her sister days after having a tumour removed.
My cat's are all well, Tilly's getting younger by the day. The other day I risked my life trying to groom her and in the end got the scissors out. I didn't realise how much I'd cut off until she stood up - her whole left hip is now bald! It's 'cos all she does is sleep she gets 'bed head' all over. And after only 18mths she's more tolerant of Max who now spends most nights under the duvet with me - I don't have a choice! Oh yeah, Millie had an abscess on her tail in october so I had to take her to get it flushed out, that was fun! She had to have the base of her tail shaved, I still wonder what the neighbours thought of it (I live next to a block of maisonettes where a lot of elderly people live and she visits them in their gardens, one lady calls her the cat with all the whiskers).
Work's been so busy, what with the credit crunch people aren't hesitating to leave their cats, in some cases literally leaving them outside the building. One day I found an empty box outside but fortunately the little old lady cat inside had gone between our two buildings so we got her in safely. We've never been so busy, we're licenced for 46 cats but lately have had 60+! We've had to resort to putting up some temporary cages as well as using our three kitchens and two offices as housing.
So that's basically what's happened the last few months, I realise I've only spoken about my pets but then I guess they are my life. I've recently gotten myself a laptop so I vow to post her more often and I'll definitely be adding pics at some point.
Wednesday, 24 September 2008
New Cats!
I can't believe forgot to post this; my sis has new cats. You may have noticed my earlier post about her ear marking a mum and two kits that were born at the cattery I work at, well, she didn't get them but instead got these two handsome devils:
Alfie (formally Buzz):
And his brother Woody:
Alfie (formally Buzz):
And his brother Woody:
They came to the cattery after they had been given to an elderly lady who passed away only months after having them. They're so friendly and affection and get on well with the neighbourhood kitties - they've even brought some cats home with them that I've got to find new homes for, lol.
Writing
Something I've always enjoyed doing is writing and I do it for fun mainly because I get easily embarrassed but also because I'm crap at it, lol. I've got a whole collection of things I wrote when I was younger all hand written and hidden in a box that no one has ever seen. I think it's because it comes from the heart and purely my imagination (ok kinda slightly influenced by the tv shows and films I watch, but mostly original ideas). I like to think of myself as a very imaginative person - hell I don't have a hell of a lot going for my in real life why not live in my on little world, lol - even my dream are exciting, last night I dreamt I was locked up in some sort of detention place and it was almost like watching a movie so I thought I'd use this and create a little story of my own. I've only ever written on paper before so I thought I'll have a shot at writing on my comp - it'll definitely be easily to edit, lol and who knows, it could turn out well though it's unlikely anyone will ever see it.
Saturday, 13 September 2008
Not been Around
So, as usual, life's been busy lately. Work's crazy and god knows what I've been getting up to at home but I've just not been able to find the time to do anything after being here there and everywhere. Here's a few highlights:
Willow, my oldest bunny, isn't doing so well at the moment. After having a urine infection and a week of washing her everyday and giving meds twice a day she definitely hates me. If that wasn't enough the fly spray I was using on her has caused an allergic reaction so now I've got her in my bedroom in the indoor cage and I have to apply sudocrem daily. This morning she really scared me as she wasn't running away from me which isn't a good sign but after a clean up she's perked up a bit. Fingers crossed she'll get over this as she's only 4 1/2yrs (buns live at least 7 yrs).
I got a new computer in the week. It was funny as my mum told us we had to move everything in a file for the comp guy to transfer it over, it took me less than a minute but my poor mum who is not computer literate moved all files one by one taking nearly an hour, lol. Typically I had to forget to move something and it was my Favourites so it's taking me a while to remember what I'd bookmarked and not only that I've got to remember a load of passwords too - why I don't use the same one everywhere I don't know! Still I love getting new things and for the time being I don't have an outdated system, lol.
My boss has been doing better (if you see an earlier post you'll see she wasn't great) but since then her husband has had a stroke and has already been in hospital for 4 weeks with at least another 4 to go. It's a shame as he's such a nice bloke, me and a colleague call him grandad Geoff as he treats everyone like family. I popped in to see my boss at home yesterday and met her cats for the first time, one of them's 24yrs old and he looks it bless him but he's still got aways to go. The other one's 17 and looks about 8yrs!
I'm sure there's a few things I forgot to say, I know no-one reads this but it's nice to be able to vent so I'll always pop on here every no and then.
Week off from Sat, woohoo!!!
Willow, my oldest bunny, isn't doing so well at the moment. After having a urine infection and a week of washing her everyday and giving meds twice a day she definitely hates me. If that wasn't enough the fly spray I was using on her has caused an allergic reaction so now I've got her in my bedroom in the indoor cage and I have to apply sudocrem daily. This morning she really scared me as she wasn't running away from me which isn't a good sign but after a clean up she's perked up a bit. Fingers crossed she'll get over this as she's only 4 1/2yrs (buns live at least 7 yrs).
I got a new computer in the week. It was funny as my mum told us we had to move everything in a file for the comp guy to transfer it over, it took me less than a minute but my poor mum who is not computer literate moved all files one by one taking nearly an hour, lol. Typically I had to forget to move something and it was my Favourites so it's taking me a while to remember what I'd bookmarked and not only that I've got to remember a load of passwords too - why I don't use the same one everywhere I don't know! Still I love getting new things and for the time being I don't have an outdated system, lol.
My boss has been doing better (if you see an earlier post you'll see she wasn't great) but since then her husband has had a stroke and has already been in hospital for 4 weeks with at least another 4 to go. It's a shame as he's such a nice bloke, me and a colleague call him grandad Geoff as he treats everyone like family. I popped in to see my boss at home yesterday and met her cats for the first time, one of them's 24yrs old and he looks it bless him but he's still got aways to go. The other one's 17 and looks about 8yrs!
I'm sure there's a few things I forgot to say, I know no-one reads this but it's nice to be able to vent so I'll always pop on here every no and then.
Week off from Sat, woohoo!!!
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