things are definitely on the mend. After 5 days of house arrest, during which I thought poor Murfs was becoming clinically depressed (turns out he was just bunged up due to having eaten a sock or two), the Paw is now good enough to allow him out without having to sit patiently holding his paw out for a sock - a plastic bag - another, bigger, plastic bag - another sock - all held on individually by the PO's best red rubber bands ... Hurray!
And Maddie managed to take out one of her stitches by herself but (on a double-barrelled visit to the vet) the vet took out the rest, so (apart from now having to rub nappy-rash cream on the site every now and again) she is free as a bird! - and I mean that literally, I heard her bark-bark-barking in the garden yesterday and assumed she was, as is her wont, running up and down trying to jump onto the garden wall after the cat. But no - she was actually perched on the wall barking at the poor cat, who was (judging from Maddie's hasty shuffles back every now and again), in the neighbours hedge fighting back with a well-aimed paw. Sigh.
Add to that the fact that Jimmy the rabbit (complete with festive red bow) was introduced to the other zoo-inhabitants on Christmas Day (Maddie appears to have been frightened of him, Murphy uninterested) and Gizzy has now formed a strange and worrying lurking habit outside Emily's bedroom door and you will see that matters have now stepped up to their usual mayhem.
So, New Year's Resolutions for 2011 - (1) deliver Jimmy back home in one piece as soon as possible. (2) build a searchlight and barbed wire facility round the back garden. (3) try not to finish off the Christmas champagne whilst making the Christmas peppermint creams (they're useless without peppermint flavouring).....
Happy Hogmanay!
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