The back garden is looking good, with the pomegranate flowering, the honeysuckles and jasmine doing well and the climbing rose going crazy. The prickily pear is going to look quite a sight soon as it is big and all the pads seem to have flowers on them. Ian had a bad experience with the tomatoes when a rat got to them in the barn, however only a couple were completely eaten and a couple more are in intensive care. The two new jasmines on the patio are doing well too, helped no doubt by the concrete block security wall that Ian built around both.
We’ve had Milly for a month and she really is a different little dog now. When she came, I was really very concerned as she could hardly walk and she wouldn’t eat. I was concerned that she may have had other injuries which we didn’t know about. However after the vet said she’d be a normal little dog, but blind and with a fused back leg, I was reassured. And now to see her bounding round the kitchen table, it is difficult to think of her other than being a proper little dog, full of energy.
She bounds round the table using both her back legs and her bad leg doesn’t seem to effect her, we wouldn’t know whether it did or didn’t, however, as she goes so fast she is just a blur! She bounces into things, but her instincts are very good, and being small, she is not quite so bumper-car-ish as Wilbs.
She gets on her back legs too to try to get out through the windows in the kitchen. She can’t do it, though, as she doesn’t seem to be able to jump and climbs, and the step is too high for her. I do wonder though if she’ll be jumping soon.
One think we have noticed is that sometimes she doesn’t seem to be able to get her bearings – similar to Dumping. We wondered if it was where the house is quite echoey.
We’re still unable to put Queenie’s doggles on her as her head is still not big enough. She doesn’t seem to mind the sun, but she appears to take herself into the shade when she can.