Month September 2013

Wilbur and Dumpling are very pleased to see us when we arrive home, even if we’ve just been out for a new minutes. Henry, Tinkerbelle and Petal are slightly less excited (Petal got off the bean bag just as I…

Last night Tinkerbelle ran into the bedroom, headed under the cover and was promptly sick – over me, over the bottom sheet and over the cover. Having stripped the bed, I washed myself down and took the sheet outside the…

Here are a few pics of normality here, starting with a photo of Larry with his new pomegranate, a gift from my mum. We’re used to him screaming at all new items that are added to his home, while he…

Anubis and Pixie appear to be great chums, probably because they are both the same size. They are funny when they play as they demonstrate some of the key differences between cats and dogs. While Pixie runs round in circles…

I’m wondering if Dumpling has a bad sense of smell, which is why she has problems orientating herself. I notice that she gets very close to the other animals to sniff them, which Alfie finds most distburbing. She gets so…

We’ve noticed that Dumpling has a pretty awful sense of direction. She’s not deaf and her hearing doesn’t appear to be too bad, however when we call her she finds it very difficult, if not impossible, to find where we…

It is interesting as we look back at how our different blind animals have adapted when they came to us. The have all got their own way of getting around. Wilbur’s is generally bouncing off things until he get where…

This is Dumpling, the Shih Tzu, formerly know as Ariane. She’s a couple of years old and, as you may notice from the photo, is missing one eye. She’s blind in the remaining eye, but appears to cope very easily…

The blame for this lies fully at Ian’s toes. He had an idea about putting a yurt or two onto some land for exclusive camping. And since then the idea has been burgeoning even down to the potential name –…

Poor little Alfie is sporting a nipped nose at the moment. Bentley nipped at him when Alfie went to pinch his food – the trouble is, Bentley is 15 times the size of Alfie so what would have been a…