Jemima Puddleduck

George has been lonely and wandering off to the neighbours to hang out with the wild ducks so we bought him a girlfriend.  They have been together for a whole day.

This photo was taken not long after we brought Jemima home.  She is 10 weeks old.  George has been alone since Mildred drowned in March this year.  I can't remember how old he is but he is the offspring of our first drake Campbell and duck, Katie.  Katie was a Cayuga and Campbell a Khaki Campbell.

Chloe & Arnie

Arnie loves his cushion and so does Chloe.  She got on when Arnie wasn't

around and wouldn't move when he wanted it.  It was a squeeze but they shared for ages.

Casey has fully recovered from her liver disease and is now back to normal being noisy, stealing cat food, running and playing.  It is so good to have her back to normal.

Casey and other things

Casey is much improved and back to her old self. stealing cat food, licking dishes and trying to break in to the rubbish bin.  She definitely has her spark back much to our relief.

I did agility with Rocky and Shilo today.  Poor Rocky is demolishing courses again and struggling to get over the jumps.  He had 35 faults in Senior and 10 in Jumpers.  I scratched him in Intermediate as it was a long course and had some tight turns.  He had a great time in the Tunnelers.  I am going to retire Rocky at the end of this year from agility but will continue doing flygility with him.  He does enjoy both sports so it is hard making the decision but I don't want him getting hurt trying to please me.  He has been a really good agility dog and is my first Senior dog.

Shilo was good today and had 5 faults in both the Novice and Jumpers C.  She had a clear round in Starters and was 4th.  The ribbons went to 3rd.

My Casey pup

I am still worried about my Casey pup.  She had another injection on Saturday and to get away from the Vet, she kept climbing on the scales.  She has lost nearly a kilo in weight since I took her 2 weeks ago.  She seemed bright enough but slept a lot over the weekend.  Sunday night she wouldn't eat the fancy tinned food I bought for her so offered her some cat food and no wouldn't touch that either.  We had chicken for dinner on Sunday night so gave her some and she ate that alright.  I was late home tonight and Stuart tried her on her tinned food and no she wasn't interested in that or the mashed potato pot.  I cooked her a piece of chicken in the microwave and fed it to her while I ate my dinner.  She ate it and then went to lick the plates in the dishwasher.  That is a good sign as she does like to do the prewash cycle.  Fingers crossed she is getting better!!!

Update on Casey

Casey has perked up and seems a lot better since her injection on Wednesday.  I am taking her to the vet tomorrow for another injection.  She still is jaundiced but seems a lot brighter.  She is eating tinned food at night but still not interested in any dry food.  She is following me about the house again which is more like the old Casey.  It is still too early to tell if she will recover form this but we can only take each day as it comes.

Casey

I still call her Casey pup even though she was born 10th March 1999.  Over the past 2 weeks, Casey has been sick and at the vets twice.  Last week it looked like she had a gastric upset and was given antibiotics.  She seemed better and was starting to eat a bit.  For several days she hasn't eaten much and turned her nose up at bits of toast, licking bowls and even cheese.  This morning she even went back upstairs while I had breakfast so I thought she should go back to the vet. 


 She had some blood tests done and has liver disease.  At this stage we don't know how serious it is.  It could be a tumour but the vet doesn't think so as they can normally feel these.  They have given her an injection and we are to go back on Friday.  Since I picked her up this afternoon she seems to be brighter and ate the special gourmet tin food I bought her.  I hope it is just an infection as she is a special member of our family and we don't want to lose her yet.

Chloe and Jake

The Kittens are over a year old now and they still cuddle up together.  Sometimes it is hard to see where one starts and finishes.  Jake has the most beautiful soft coat and is so gentle when he plays with us.  They play rough together at times.

Jake plays with Arnie a lot too.  Chloe is definitely more aloof and goes to Stuart more easily than me.  She likes being high and will sit on the top of the scratching post to survey the world.  For a while the scratching post was close to the table with the fruit bowl and she would sit on it and flick kiwi fruit across the room.

The dogs and I went to Hamilton on Saturday to do agility for the first time in weeks.  Shiloh was good and had 2 rounds with only 5 faults.  The last run she got a bit naughty and then I lost my way so we were disqualified.  Rocky did really well in his first run with only 5 faults and it was a contact not a jump.  I was worried that he is finding jumping harder.  He got through the difficult bits in Senior before being D'd.

The back yard is very muddy so the rabbits are still on high ground and Allie the Guinea pig is close to the house.  The chickens keep coming on the deck so have tried to get Stuart to restrict their time out.  He is always reluctant to do this.  Good weather for George the duck.