A bit of drama

 Yesterday we managed to lose Kenji, at first there was no real panic as she is very adept at hiding away, but eventually it became obvious that she must have somehow got outside. With this in mind the rest of the evening involved knocking on neighbours doors, going out in the rain with torches looking for her and generally getting increasingly stressed about her location and welfare. 

The only diversion we had from looking for her was dropping my van to a garage 8 miles away, leaving it outside their premises so they could carry out some work on it today. 

After a broken night involving more searches we had a phone call at about 8am today from our mechanic asking if we were missing a cat as he had driven the van into his workshop, lifted the bonnet to have the life scared out of him by finding a freaky looking cat staring out at him! 

After a drive that may have involved breaking a speed limit or two we got to the garage and found a not terribly distressed Kenji still in the vans engine bay, from which she was unceremoniously removed and safely contained in a cat basket. She was so lucky, she could have been killed or seriously hurt if she had sat in the wrong past of the engine bay, she could have fallen out on the drive to the garage, or she could have simply left the van overnight and got lost in a totally unfamiliar area (I think it was a blessing that it rained last night as her spot in the van would have been warm and dry). 

She is now back home and you wouldn't know anything had happened. She has never wanted to go out before and I suspect that she won't be overly keen to repeat the experience!

Whoopi and kittens

 As most know Whoopi had an accident as a puppy that has left her with some minor disabilities. Since she had her puppies she had become much quieter on walks and just in general, I had put this down to recovering from rearing such a large litter, but then I noted that she wasn't extending fully on the move and at this point I decided to take her to a McTimoney chiropractor. She had her 1^st session a couple of weeks ago and I have to admit I was sceptical that the barely perceptible tweaks given as treatment would do anything, but how wrong I was. Since the treatment her gait has improved as has her general demeanour, she is back to behaving like the 3 year old dog she is, rather than a late middle aged dog. Yesterday she had another session, which will hopefully further improve her comfort (I have to stress that she was not lame, she just wasn't right), this time the chiropractor also concentrated on her jaw and neck, Whoopi has always had an odd way of eating she sort of picks the food up with her front teeth and then swallows it almost in the way a person would swallow a tablet and is very slow by comparison to the other dogs, this morning she easily finished her breakfast before the other dogs, something that has never happened in her lifetime. I guess I'm putting this post up for anyone who thinks their dog may have a physical problem as I would certainly recommend this form of chiropractor. I hadn't realised that the little things I saw as just being a part of Whoopi post accident could be helped. 

This year I am planning on 2 litters of kittens, one each from Bernard and Kenji. Both will be visiting Fawlty this month meaning we should have some fab kittens sometime in june.