A few random and disjointed notes
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bunnI should have cut this :
This weekend I laid into the garden, and reduced a great deal of foliage to pre-compost. Things now look a good deal clearer and more presentable. Sadly, this does draw attention to the areas that previously looked only mildly out of hand and now look more than a bit shaggy. The pumpkins and squashes are romping away, and now have flat lawn to traverse rather than jungle, and the blackberries are looking very tempting. We have a glut of apples, though only on one of the trees are there fruits that are ripe enough to eat. I think apple chutney beckons again this autumn... Polo has taken a big bag of apples to give away at work, and I have eaten more fresh figs: I am not giving them away yet!
On Monday, Mollydog was having a run, fell over something (own feet, possibly?) and went head over heels. Cue much screaming and trembling. Fortunately, nothing was broken and she managed to limp home. A vet visit was needed: the vet wanted to give her an x ray. I said OK to this to start with - then I realised that they wanted to give her a general anaesthetic to do it. As she has a heart murmur, I was reluctant for what seems to be a fairly minor injury - OK, anaesthetics are safer these days, but there is always some risk. If it were our old Cheshire vet, I'd have gone for it, but I just don't have the same confidence in this vet practice. It probably didn't help that (as we were going in anyway) I took Footie to have his anti-allergy injection at the same time, and they kept getting them muddled up.
One animal is a male cat with a skin complaint: the other is a female greyhound with an injured leg. Surely not hard to tell apart?? Also, I'm not convinced that a general anaesthetic is really necessary for an x ray. I know other people who have had dogs x-rayed without it...
So we have compromised on on-lead walking and painkillers for the time being. The swelling is greatly reduced today, and although her limp is worse than usual, it's not exceptional. I am going to give her a couple of days without painkillers from today: if she seems to be walking OK, she can go offlead again at the weekend.
On my return, I was surprised to see Az was in the garden (gate shut) as I'd left him in the house, and I was sure I'd not shut the gate behind me. I later discovered that Linda next door had spent most of the time I was at the vet repeatedly catching Az and putting him back in the house! It seems that he is able to unlock the front door. He's never done that before - but then he's never been left on his own without Mollydog before either. When I leave them next time, I shall lock the porch as well as the front door: that will fox him!
Yesterday I saw some Roe deer for the first time in the village. Usually we only get red deer here, but these were diddy little ones. I think the dogs would have liked to chase them, but as Mollydog was on lead, I was able to foil that plan before it started.
This weekend I laid into the garden, and reduced a great deal of foliage to pre-compost. Things now look a good deal clearer and more presentable. Sadly, this does draw attention to the areas that previously looked only mildly out of hand and now look more than a bit shaggy. The pumpkins and squashes are romping away, and now have flat lawn to traverse rather than jungle, and the blackberries are looking very tempting. We have a glut of apples, though only on one of the trees are there fruits that are ripe enough to eat. I think apple chutney beckons again this autumn... Polo has taken a big bag of apples to give away at work, and I have eaten more fresh figs: I am not giving them away yet!
On Monday, Mollydog was having a run, fell over something (own feet, possibly?) and went head over heels. Cue much screaming and trembling. Fortunately, nothing was broken and she managed to limp home. A vet visit was needed: the vet wanted to give her an x ray. I said OK to this to start with - then I realised that they wanted to give her a general anaesthetic to do it. As she has a heart murmur, I was reluctant for what seems to be a fairly minor injury - OK, anaesthetics are safer these days, but there is always some risk. If it were our old Cheshire vet, I'd have gone for it, but I just don't have the same confidence in this vet practice. It probably didn't help that (as we were going in anyway) I took Footie to have his anti-allergy injection at the same time, and they kept getting them muddled up.
One animal is a male cat with a skin complaint: the other is a female greyhound with an injured leg. Surely not hard to tell apart?? Also, I'm not convinced that a general anaesthetic is really necessary for an x ray. I know other people who have had dogs x-rayed without it...
So we have compromised on on-lead walking and painkillers for the time being. The swelling is greatly reduced today, and although her limp is worse than usual, it's not exceptional. I am going to give her a couple of days without painkillers from today: if she seems to be walking OK, she can go offlead again at the weekend.
On my return, I was surprised to see Az was in the garden (gate shut) as I'd left him in the house, and I was sure I'd not shut the gate behind me. I later discovered that Linda next door had spent most of the time I was at the vet repeatedly catching Az and putting him back in the house! It seems that he is able to unlock the front door. He's never done that before - but then he's never been left on his own without Mollydog before either. When I leave them next time, I shall lock the porch as well as the front door: that will fox him!
Yesterday I saw some Roe deer for the first time in the village. Usually we only get red deer here, but these were diddy little ones. I think the dogs would have liked to chase them, but as Mollydog was on lead, I was able to foil that plan before it started.
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Date: 2006-08-16 04:59 pm (UTC)Though there doesn't seem to be much wrong with their brains, if Azure has learnt how to open doors. Or maybe your resident criminal mastermind cat (Perl?) has been doing it, as part of a cunning plot to get the dogs into trouble, or cause them to run away and never come back. (Hmm... I think this happened in a children's book once... but not Dogsbody, I think? I wonder what else it could be...)
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Date: 2006-08-16 07:57 pm (UTC)I suspect Az's brains can be attributed to his probable 1/8th collie though. Mollydog isn't exactly stupid - but she is very, very lazy!