It’s me, Alfie, writing again today. Ari is not available, much to his annoyance. He asked me to say it felt like those times when you’re shipped off to your grandparents for a few days only to come home to find you have a new brother or sister. Except that in his case it’s kennels rather than grandparents and he’s likely to come back to five or six brothers or sisters! Anyway, the decision for him to go came after Shadow bit my ear, entirely unprovoked, unless you count her raging hormones as provocation! Then Ari decided to pile in and attack me as I was whimpering. It wasn’t a good start to my day and I was sincerely glad to wave goodbye to him. Our Mistress got the Germolene out and after a bit more whimpering I settled down to feel sorry for myself. Having to share my bed with Shadow had been bad enough.
Anyway, Shadow went off to the vet and had a blood test to see what her progesterone was doing. We will get the result a little later this morning, but I can tell you she is not feeling much like eating now and doesn’t want to go for a walk or be apart from our Mistress. There was a small false alarm with some temperature readings that were lower than normal, but it went back up when she went to the vet so it was hard to tell. Our Mistress has made up some puppy milk replacement ready, just in case and I got to lick one of the pots out, so that cheered me up. The car is already and all we can do now is wait and sooth Shadow who is feeling very sorry for herself right now.
I’m writing this before I go to bed on Friday night, but it’s quite possible it will be overtaken by events. Shadow’s milk has come through and she is off her food. She’s had a bit of an upset tummy but that’s all fairly normal at this stage. I won’t go into all the gory details. She’s also been showing the first signs of nesting, but she’s never been one of life’s great nesters so it’s hard to say. Anyway our Mistress says she’s having an early night so she’ll have the opportunity of at least some sleep before things get going if it is tonight.
Here’s where we were with guesses up to bedtime last night. Leave a comment to tell us when you think. So far we have:
Eileen 3am Saturday
Dickens – Sat 26th Midday
Val – Sunday (her birthday)
Sarah – 2am Sunday
Cassandra – sunrise Sunday
Carol – 11 am Sunday
Lynn – 8pm Sunday
David – 6.30am Monday
Granny – 8am Monday
Kathryn 3pm Monday
Grandpa – 10am Tuesday.
Of course if you are reading this and I haven’t added anything more of an update then it probably means Eileen won’t have been nearest, but I guess it won’t be until 7.31am that Dickens will become officially closer.
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