We brought Maya home from the local SPA (French equivalent of the RSPCA, Société Protectrice des Animaux) after a long time trying to decide which cat to adopt. The only criteria we had were for a sterilised female, because our other cat is male – wanted to keep a good yin/yang balance.
While we were there, [...]

I took Suzie for her second injection at the vets this week. After her operation, which went well, she was bandaged for ten days, as you can see in the photo. It makes it look like she’s wearing a t-shirt .
We adopted Suzie from the street. A friend of ours in Morocco lived in [...]

Suzie is back from the vet, bandaged all around her side and having difficulty walking the poor thing. She should get better gradually though. She’’s on anti-inflammatories and antibiotics. The tissue sample has been sent off to the lab, and until it gets back we can only hope the results show that it’’s benign and [...]

I took Suzie to the vet on Monday because she has a lump on her side near her front leg. The vet said it will need removing, and so she’s at the vet’s surgery right now. She’ll need an X-ray and blood tests to find out if she’s OK for a general anaesthetic, and then [...]

Today I spent most of the day shopping. First of all in Géant Casino the local hypermarket, where the mission was to buy a cot and mattress for the nursery. We also ended up with a water thermometer, a baby bath, some sheets for the bed and more baby clothes. That combined with the regular [...]