Well, I hope everyone has had a wonderful Christmas! Many thanks for all the wonderful presents and we hope that everyone has a prosperous and fun-filled 2015
Ours has been busy with the house full of people and excitement for over a week what with the arrival of the inlaws and the outlaws (all of them) in quick succession. Amidst all of that Dylan has mostly been interested in opening presents - possibly more than the contents - but now that there's nothing left to open is probably now looking at what he was given with more interest!
 |
| It's Christmas jumper time (and we didn't have a fight to get him into it!) |
Just prior to the festivities he was started on a new drug to assist in the management of his blood pressure (propranolol) with the existing captopril. So far so good; his kidneys remain happy with the addition of the new drug and he's still very good with his medicine so he just takes them. Occasionally he'll mutter about only taking one or t'other but nothing serious. And we think it's working. Which is good. The longer it takes (or rather the bigger we can get him) before someone has to do something to his heart the better.
Growing has also been a feature in the last month. I was quite shocked to find that he'd grown out of something that a month previously he'd only grown into to. I have no idea where we are on the charts and frankly I'm not particularly worried about it. The boy is definitely getting bigger!
 |
| Dylan and his Christmas "stash" This is pre-Kitten carnage |
He also managed to join (albeit breifly) the ranks of the lurgied. Everyone amongst the outlaws (and myself) have had a low-grade lurgy for the last few weeks\months. Dylan has too. Friday night it got a bit worse and yesterday he was mostly... not floppy as such but very poorly... and so spent much of the day in front of Ivor the Engine* or in bed. Today he's much better, his resting breathing rate is down from the 60's to something more normal and although still working hard is much cheerier. Although more vomity. Yay.
The Kits meanwhile have been having adventures. First there was the arrival of Lyra - a very large alsation. This dog had a continuing Mexican stand-off with Fugly and was on numerous occasions chased out of the house by him but mostly they just pretended to ignore each other. Since Fugly's demise Lyra has been much happier visiting - especially when the Kits were little as they were easy to chase but mostly were hidden from view. Not this time. And the Kits most definitely are as psychopathic towards dogs as Fugly was. On initial meeting it looked like we'd have to keep Lyra and the Kits apart for the sake of the Kits but very quickly that turned about with Lyra cowering in the corner as the Kits ganged up on her. I've not seen anything more stupid (until Christmas day that is) than Mayhem jumping on an animal about 10 times the size of her or Chaos going up to Lyra's nose and hissing. I'm not sure Lyra wants to come back.... Having said that, after a day or so, Chaos had mostly decided to ignore her. Mayhem on the other hand definitely wanted to show everyone who was boss. And then on Christmas Day we temporarily lost Mayhem. A window in a room was open and whilst everyone was distracted with opening presents she took her chance. A brother (one of mine) discovered Chaos by the open window - whether Mayhem jumped, fell or was pushed is unclear - either way it was from a second story window. A fairly brief and traumatic search found her safe and well and it only disrupted the present opening.
 |
| Is this the face of a kitten who would push his sister out of a window? (photo (c) C.Carnuth) |
* I'm hoping to wean Dylan off watching Thomas and move him to Ivor and then Willo the Wisp as frankly I'm sick of Thomas. The Fat Controller's railway is a poor example of Health and Safety at work given there appears to be an accident in every episode... I think the unions should be informed.
No comments:
Post a Comment