'noon chickadees....omg! am i ever loving this windows live writer!!...trust me, i won't bore you with too many more posts but must tell you the story of flo's woes.....
we "dog-sat" a gorgeous little boy called oscar over the Christmas period. we loved every minute of it but he managed to turn our whole world a little topsy turvy........
......as you can see, he is VERY endearing......
.......there was mutual love between he and the two girls (flo, and rae the cattle dog)...they played together without any hassles.....the exuberance of the three of them together caused the chooks to stop laying.....mr lzilulu loved him because he did little tricks for him eg rolling over every time he said "bang"......
...and only resumed a standing stance after a gentle tummy rub from mr lzilulu.....and no, he would not do the trick for me....but i still loved him because....well, because he loved us, that's why!!
.....flo became very withdrawn after he left......off her food and generally "not her usual self".......we persevered for a couple of days thinking it may have been from too much Christmas ham....but when i realized she had a raised temperature my "worry wart mother persona" took over and off to the vet we went......$65 later we weren't really any the wiser, the vet couldn't really find anything wrong with her but due to the fever and "slightly red tonsils" we left the surgery with some antibiotics and orders to return in three days if there was no change....
...she remained withdrawn, sooky, off her food and showed little improvement over two days despite antibiotics.......
.....then she started some bizarre for her behaviour...she started gathering her soft toys and became very possessive of them....
....she'd hide with them in unusual spots...
.....then the lightbulb moment happened.....a quick phonecall to the vet and a few chuckles later all was confirmed...our poor flo was lovesick and probably going through a "phantom whelp"............
...now that she is improving and we are seeing more of the "old flo" we are having some serious laughing sessions about it all......
......we have questioned the paternity....this one is probably fairly obvious....mr lzilulu is SURE he saw Santa in the neighbourhood recently...
....but...this one???.....we both agree that flo DEFINITELY has some explaining to do............
until next time chickadees, take care and be kind to each other...planning some time in "the shed" tomorrow so may even have a crafty post to do then...
sloppystuff lzi xox
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