5th December

Everyone has been asking how Tara is.
She is very well in herself, no obvious signs of anything today.
She saw the vet this morning and we discussed different options. The blood in urine is probably just cystitis and not really serious in itself, I have taken a urine sample in to be tested this evening.
The worry is, if she has some underlying cause, as she also has some other worrying symptoms.
We really wanted to put an advert in the paper, latest tomorrow, to get her a home before Christmas but of course we cannot do that if she has something wrong with her and our most pressing need at the moment is space as we have two dogs in kennels and two dogs we know of in Guildford who urgently need a rescue space and of course the pre Christmas dumping has begun, I turned down four dogs on Saturday alone.

However, we have agreed to go for a blood test which she will have tomorrow and we will go from there.

She was very bouncy on her walk this morning, and spent a long time out in the kitchen this evening while Sara attempted The Sun crossword and Sam and I attempted to help! Rather than the rucksack Tara curled up on Sara's bag.
 I washed her bed (again) last night and dried it on the radiators this afternoon. It is one of those special beds that reflects the heat ( good for old,young and sick dogs ) it came from the charity bin at Pets At Home and is probably the best bed we have ever had.
After her time in the kitchen she went happily in to bed on her clean,dry, warm bedding. She really is a sweetie. Thank you for your concern.



Khan,Lexus and Smudge last week.

 During a busy family moment today Lexus went into the bathroom and removed the lid from a full bottle of shampoo! Dave caught him just in time! He is still managing to root out windfall apples down the garden each morning, despite them being rotten and having the frost on them.
He also still continues his bad behaviour at breakfast time,launching himself from behind the kitchen cabinets and barking madly so that Tara and Chance have learnt to join in.
That Dog!