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Festive Period 2017
Christmas and New Year is always a very busy time and this year has been no exception. What is different this time is that I’ve managed to take photos of some of the animal visits from over the festive period, and from earlier in the year. Winter Wonderland or Traffic chaos? The festive period didn’t …
There be Dragons
Every so often when the owners go on holiday I care for Dave, the Bearded Dragon, and what a handsome fellow he is. His two favourite meals are large live locusts and meal worms, and not forgetting his daily fresh greens of course. He is a very lucky boy, I think he prefers the locusts …
Hearty breakfasts are essential
My Stay At Home Paws days are rarely the same. Often I’ll start just after nine o’clock with a couple of visits, typically to care for cats but often including all sorts of other animals including rabbits, hamsters, fish, chickens and lizards. Mid-to-late morning is about the time that the once-a-day-visit dogs are getting ready/desperate …
Pirate Pussy
Katie sometimes sends me some photos and clips she finds on the internet. Whilst Katie is, herself, a fully qualified member of the Crazy Cat Lady Club she has dug up this extraordinary video which reassures us both that we are still relatively normal. (Video sourced from 9gag.com.)
Gator wins waggiest tail rosette
One of my more recent clients are a lovely American couple who have relocated to work in the UK for a couple of years and have set up home in Gerrards Cross. The have brought with them Gator, their large, boisterous and extremely friendly Labrador, and his much more laid back feline companion Stratis In …
Shocking cat visit
On this morning I set out as usual on my round of cat visits and dog walks, and I started with a visit to a house just a few streets away. This young couple have two lovely silky black and white cats, and these cats come and go freely through their cat flap. The owners …
A Slippery Garden Visitor
Paul was doing his usual weekly lawn mow, and, unexpectedly, he came running into the house shouting “Gerri come outside quickly”. I thought “what on earth is going on”. Anyway it turned out that there was a snake on the lawn, about two feet long, and luckily our garden visitor had escaped the lawnmower. However, …
A day to remember
This day turned out to be one out of the ordinary. I’d gone to visit the cats Sasha and Poppy. The routine was a little unusual as first I had to catch the cats and this wasn’t easy as they were very elusive. I had to catch them as Sasha required her daily insulin injection. …
Harry the new arrival
Harry the cat, or to address him by his formal name “Prince Harry”, is a rescue kitten to came to us in September 2015 from the Cat and Kitten Rescue Home in St albans. When we visited Harry at his foster home he was a very confident little 15 week old kitten but that changed …
Sneaky and Jeeves
Sneaky and Jeeves were our two Golden Retrievers. Sneaky was born on 2nd May 1996 and was given the pedigree name Thornygold Pervinca, of sire Kennelridge Goody Two Shoes and dam Kennelridge Marieka of Thornyegold. The children decided that she was going to be a rather sneaky little puppy and so the name Sneaky was …
Holly and Hattie
On the 31st October 2009 we welcomed Holly and Hattie into our home. Previously the cats were staying with their foster carer Kim in Amersham, Kim was part of the Cat and Kitten Rescue Charity team. Holly and Hattie were 9-10 months old and each had already had a litter. That’s the only history we …
Jeeves visits the Vet
I spotted a lump on Jeeves’ shoulder which was diagnosed as a tumour. So Jeeves went off to the Vet hospital to have it removed. Poor Jeeves. Little did he know what indignities he would have to put up with as he recovered. I had to find a way to prevent Jeeves from meddling with …