A kiss for the cameraman ! Dibble turns 1 year old this month.
Ollie's favourite spot for keeping warm ... on top of my computer at night (when my daughter's in bed & she can't be bothered by her !)I thought that it was time for a pet update – or rather, a zoo update as my husband often comments “This house is like a zoo !” (Well, I did warn him when he asked me to marry him that I wanted a house filled with “animals on every surface” one day !)
This month Dibble turns 1 year old and my beloved Zonde turns 12. I am truly blessed to have spent 12 wonderful years with Zonde, who as you know, has cancer. She is doing okay. She is comfortable, and stable and every extra day I have with her, I am grateful for. Josie and Mbwenya are also still doing well and are coming for food every night.
We still take food in to the village to feed several other stray dogs on a daily basis, too, including a white female dog called Snowy who we recently had spayed and treated. She had 3 puppies when we found her, 2 of which had died of starvation but the 3rd puppy, Whiskey, has found a wonderful loving home with a volunteer vet. Snowy is now living with Justin’s girlfriend in the village, and we are responsible for her daily feeding and care.
Buster, a dog who I have yet to tell you all about, was abandoned here by the previous manager when he left the country (!!) and we took over his care when we arrived about a year later. All this time he’d been living off the rubbish dump and scrounging what he could from the village. He is now living with our askari (night guard), Simon who he comes to work with each evening. I still have to tell you about Simon someday - he is a real character and has been with us for years now, too. He loves chickens and they even sleep in his house with him – my kind of person, you see !
Anna, the recently found stray grey cat, has been taken to the vet and spayed and vaccinated, as has Suzie, the cat from Frank’s shop. The ginger cat I wrote about who was sheltering in the old chicken coop turned out to be a male, who we (Justin !) have named Bruce. He is very wild and so far will not allow any of us to touch him. (You can read about all 3 of them by clicking the link at the beginning of this parapgraph).
Anna (Justin named her after his girlfriend !) and Bruce live up at Justin’s house along with Emily who is heavily pregnant at the moment (she lives under one of the rooves up there along with Bruce). We tried to get her into a travel crate to take her to the vet’s recently (thinking that if her kittens were born in captivity we would have a better chance of taming them and finding good homes for them and then spaying her) but she bit Justin on the hand, and then disappeared for a couple of days.
I am trying to – albeit slowly - get the entire community of feral cats in the area spayed & vaccinated. They won’t allow any other cats in to their territory, so once I have the population here under control, we should hopefully have no further problems or litters of kittens being born into another cycle of starvation and neglect.
Tammy, Ollie and Tessa are all well and happy and keeping snug and warm during our cold winter months.
Thanks to everyone who clicks out of my blog via the “Animal Rescue Site” button every day. It’s in the right sidebar and clicking on the link provided in the site it takes you to, provides free food for animals in shelters, only takes a minute and costs you nothing …. so click away as often as you like …. just a small act like this, can really make a difference in the life of a needy animal.
This month Dibble turns 1 year old and my beloved Zonde turns 12. I am truly blessed to have spent 12 wonderful years with Zonde, who as you know, has cancer. She is doing okay. She is comfortable, and stable and every extra day I have with her, I am grateful for. Josie and Mbwenya are also still doing well and are coming for food every night.
We still take food in to the village to feed several other stray dogs on a daily basis, too, including a white female dog called Snowy who we recently had spayed and treated. She had 3 puppies when we found her, 2 of which had died of starvation but the 3rd puppy, Whiskey, has found a wonderful loving home with a volunteer vet. Snowy is now living with Justin’s girlfriend in the village, and we are responsible for her daily feeding and care.
Buster, a dog who I have yet to tell you all about, was abandoned here by the previous manager when he left the country (!!) and we took over his care when we arrived about a year later. All this time he’d been living off the rubbish dump and scrounging what he could from the village. He is now living with our askari (night guard), Simon who he comes to work with each evening. I still have to tell you about Simon someday - he is a real character and has been with us for years now, too. He loves chickens and they even sleep in his house with him – my kind of person, you see !
Anna, the recently found stray grey cat, has been taken to the vet and spayed and vaccinated, as has Suzie, the cat from Frank’s shop. The ginger cat I wrote about who was sheltering in the old chicken coop turned out to be a male, who we (Justin !) have named Bruce. He is very wild and so far will not allow any of us to touch him. (You can read about all 3 of them by clicking the link at the beginning of this parapgraph).
Anna (Justin named her after his girlfriend !) and Bruce live up at Justin’s house along with Emily who is heavily pregnant at the moment (she lives under one of the rooves up there along with Bruce). We tried to get her into a travel crate to take her to the vet’s recently (thinking that if her kittens were born in captivity we would have a better chance of taming them and finding good homes for them and then spaying her) but she bit Justin on the hand, and then disappeared for a couple of days.
I am trying to – albeit slowly - get the entire community of feral cats in the area spayed & vaccinated. They won’t allow any other cats in to their territory, so once I have the population here under control, we should hopefully have no further problems or litters of kittens being born into another cycle of starvation and neglect.
Tammy, Ollie and Tessa are all well and happy and keeping snug and warm during our cold winter months.
Thanks to everyone who clicks out of my blog via the “Animal Rescue Site” button every day. It’s in the right sidebar and clicking on the link provided in the site it takes you to, provides free food for animals in shelters, only takes a minute and costs you nothing …. so click away as often as you like …. just a small act like this, can really make a difference in the life of a needy animal.
