Haircut

Due to the constant wet weather we are having at the moment, I took the decision to take Dime's coat off today. Keeping both her and Spirit in full coat was becoming increasingly hard work, both were taking about 3 hours work twice a week to maintain which was getting harder and harder to fit in, especially with the others also requiring regular, shorter, grooming sessions. However I can't bring myself to take Spirit's coat off yet, when I see her freshly groomed, running with her coat flowing I just have to admire her, and she gives the best fluffy cuddles :-)

 

Sioux has now had his vaccination and can go out and about, he is terrific on the lead and happily walks through the town centre and alongside the heaviest traffic, he marches along proud as punch with his tail held at a very jaunty angle, however, trips in the car are a completely different ballgame. He suffers from really bad car sickness. Today I wanted to take him to a local park, about a mile and a half away. I decided to break the journey by grabbing a quick bit of shopping at the local supermarket, half a mile away, he was salivating heavily by the time we got to the shop supermarket and was sitting in a pool of drool. I left him with the doors open and Spirit in the pen next to him whilst I went in the shop for about 10 mins, he was still dribbly when I came back to him. We then went on to the park, took less than 5 minutes but he had been sick be the time we got there :-(

He had a great time in the park, we were there for about half and hour (just mooching about, not walking round as I have to careful with his exercise levels at this age), by which time he was fully recovered. Back in the van to go home and the drool started straight away and he had been sick again by the time we got home. I feel we are going to have to do a lot of journeys to get him over this. On the plus side, it does mean he is getting very used to having baths!

The kittens are continuing to gain weight, they are slowly becoming more alert and Emily is making sure that they are getting plenty of cuddles, with her attention these kittens are going to be real cuddle monsters and totally bombproof!She has named the blue and white boy Sid and the black boy Diego (guess who's an ice age fan)