Don’t know if you realise but cats actually enjoy radio four. They know if its been a purrfect day in purrliament, of if there has been a catastrophy in catmandu. They sit on their little green shelves listening to desert Island discs and start preening furiously when a song from Lloyd Webbers “Cats” is played. “The Archers” tends to send them rushing for the litter trays and Sandi Toksvig sets them all caterwalling! can’t imagine why.
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The cattery is full for Easter, its lovely to go in first thing in the morning and see all the little white name tags and the row of eager pussy cats waiting for breakfast. It gives me a warm feeling of satisfaction and usefulness.
We have another addition to our pest control staff. This one was in a sorry condition when she was rescued and is currently in the main cattery for rest and recuperation. I told hubcaps he could name her expecting something musical, so I was surprised when he came up with Jet or Smudge. I settled for smudge but then he came to his senses and renamed her Ting-Ting. She has another trip to the vet for a final check-up before being released for duty.
The winter weather has taken its toll on the isolation unit floor, frost has lifted the paint from the concrete and the overall effect is unsightly. My solution was to lay tiles, modern and easy to clean. One of the local DIY stores had lovely cream coloured 12″ tiles on special offer so I snapped them up. One warm sunny day last week I laid them and they do look lovely. So why am I telling you this? We have a cat in there at the moment, one that hasn’t been vaccinated and the weather has changed. Every time I go into the unit I leave a trail of black muddy footprints and then have to reverse out with a damp cloth cleaning up the mess!
I did think about tiling the main cattery floor, occasionally when I go in to empty a litter tray I see red spots in the litter and my heart does a flippy thing, on closer inspection I find that it is flakes of red paint from the floor.
On the farming front, we lost two aylesbury ducks to the fox this week which was very upsetting. I had given thier offspring to the neighbours as pets so I had to break the news to them that their ducklings were now orphans.
Joy
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