Some updates

RIP Esmond 23.5.2004 - 11.2.2006

My little fuzzy rat Esmond died of congestive heart failure about 2am this morning. He was Vincent's litter brother and this was exactly the same problem. Knowing that wasn't a damn bit of help.

I'm now very afraid for Percy, the last brother, though he was checked out at the vet yesterday as well and was deemed to need only an antibiotic, not the heart drugs which are heavy duty stuff. He's taking things much better than I am. If I had lost two siblings in rapid succession I think I would be in the foetal position in bed for a few weeks.

Note to chaosmanor and delicious_irony: the lemon tree is taking its time. There are quite a lot of nearly ripe lemons but my estimate of how long they'd take is evidently way out. I'll let you know! At the moment probably only half a dozen or so are at picking stage. With the higher ones I have to wait till they hit the ground as they're too high for me to get to.

chaosmanor; would you be able to help me give Percy mites shots again if he needs them? The vet wants to hold off for now but he might need them later. Percy, as you might remember, eeks piteously at any provocation or none. The vet has been known to assure me that he hasn't actually done anything to him yet...

Note to muffinmonster and drhyde; I hope you got my mail thanking you for the delicious package which arrived last week. Unfortunately I am now addicted to those biscuits...!

Ratfan