Blue goes to London – and doesn’t break the BBC!
We did it! We made it to London and back without breaking anything or losing ourselves! We left home at just after 6, collected by a taxi to take us to the station. When I got up, Blue opened one eye and sighed at me in a ‘you-have-to-be-kidding-can’t-you-see-it’s-still-dark-outside fashion, but by the time I had her lead on she was willing (ish) to go. The show itself was, on the whole, annoyingly pointless. Unlike the normal watchdog show there was no investigation, no resolution, and they simply skimmed the surface of the issue with some platitudes. I’ll write more tomorrow about why we were there i the first place – and I’ll try and video the clip so that you can see Blue-the-TV-star hogging the camera...
Blue and me is goin’ on the telly… :O
Last week an envelope from John Lewis Insurance plopped onto the mat – Pet Insurance Renewal Time. Total Horrors when we opened it, though – they now want £70 a MONTH! More than it costs us to insure the 4×4. That’s a massive 50% hike on last year – and that was hiked over 100% the year before. We swallowed it last year as she’d had all her TPLO goings-on… but this year she’s had no treatments, she’s only 2, she’s fully vaccinated and up to date with no reason to raise her premiums at all. The one reason they have given on their literature is that vets fees are climbing between 6-10% annually. Uh huh. So raise my bill 6-10% then, yes? The bigger picture is that they know we simply cannot go shop around...
Blue is Broken.
So, Blue has been limping since Easter. At first we thought it was soft tissue damage – a couple of weeks rest and she was right again. Until the next time. Over the space of six months she spent half her time ‘resting’ with no walks, interspersed with her usual mad galumphing around the fields. But the limp just never went away. Anti-inflammatories helped, and eventually the vet said she needed a second opinion. X rays were taken, mailed over to a nearby Vet Hospital (who have been totally amazing), and the diagnosis came back within the hour – she has wear on her cruciate ligaments in her knee, and she needs a Tibial Plateau Leveling Osteotomy. Of course she does. WHAT? Basically, her cruciate ligament is a bit duff, is slowly tearing...
Walking in the woods
Yet another glooooorious autumn day, so we did what every other self-respecting family did and took ourselves out into...
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