The Terrorist is not a well little boy. At the moment he is not too bad but we have had to curtail our walking for the moment. I cannot take Chienna out because he would go slightly spare and I would have to take him, but then after about ten minutes I would be carrying him. I don’t mind that at all, but it is not good for him. Anyway, I saw a dog ramp in a catalogue the other day so I will dig that out and have a serious thought about it. Actually, as an aside to that I have ordered one so it will let him get up onto his bed without any trauma. It should arrive within a week. He has slowed down quite a bit and he has difficulty jumping on to the raised bed. I will make an appointment with the vet and let him have a look and see if we can determine the cause of the problem – other than just getting old.
Summer is “officially ” over and we are now into Autumn. Cannot say that I noticed all that much difference. It’s still sticky at night and I still have the overhead fans on and I still get up in the morning drained and slightly washed out. Herself suggested that I should have a bowl of water on the floor to overcome the dryness of the fans but knowing me I’d probably get up during the night and step in it or kick it over. My room is the warmest and I have not been to bed in 90 days. – Let me qualify that – wearing shorts and a Tshirt, I lay down on the top of my bed and sleep, I don’t actually pull back the covers and get into bed – too warm for that, and it’s only really a problem if we have a sudden change and the temperature drops more than a couple of degrees during the night. The latest suggestion is that the Australian weather has been on steroids this summer. Well that works because it now appears that a good number of our athletes have been. Certainly Cyclone Rusty was a bit of a fizzier but now on the opposite side of the country a new cyclone is building up in the Coral Sea. Between fires, floods and cyclones it has been an “interesting” summer. However, I believe summer is over when I can go back into bed again.
Still waiting to see the Vet about the little man. At the moment he seems ok and I have made a temporary step for him. During the course of today I will wander around some of the hardware shops( actually there is only three) and see if they have any polystyrene that I can have and make into a step for him. The photograph is the dog that I was looking after for a few days – an affectionate little thing – and I finally managed to sort out the orientation.
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