Poor Bobbins is still staying at the vet, she’s been there for five days now. We had expected her to come home on Friday as she had shown signs of improvement, but then on Friday she took a step back…
Miss Moppet because suddenly very ill and died earlier this week. It was a surprise as we had not idea that she was ill or that there may have been anything wrong. Here’s a pic of her on the…
We have 6 cases of coronavirus in the village which moves us into a higher band. Given that any more than a quarter of a person with coronavirus moves us into a higher band, it was sort of inevitable. But…
We have put the lovebirds in to the one cage – something that I didn’t think we’d be doing this early on. It can take weeks or months for a lovebird who was bonded to another to accept a new…
Introducing Harry the Lovebird. He will be a friend for Barry but he’s currently in a separate cage while the get to know each other. They appear to be interacting nicely and I’m not seeing any signs of aggression or…
we had a family outing to the vet today. Horace for his haircut, Pixie for her blood test and Daisy to be neutered. While we were waiting we had a picnic lunch by the new reservoir we found at Zafra.…
I was looking at an email I sent mum back at the beginning of March. I said I would postpone my visit for Mother’s Day because I wasn’t sure how this virus thing was going to develop. And then a…
Sadly, Gary (Sugar Plum) the lovebird died yesterday. He had appeared fine but Ian found him at the bottom of the cage last night when we went to bed. We had no clues that he was ill so it was…
So things continue without much change. However, living in an area which is not greatly affected by the virus means we see things differently to people in Madrid. Extremadura is seeing a rise in infections, but nothing like some of…
Well, as it turns out, very. Yesterday we were trying to work out when Wilbur was ill last year so I looked through the blog and found out (July) and I read another post around that time where I was…