Depressing thoughts

Well, Nina had her kittens on Sept. 6th - 6 babies, nice mix of colours. 2 choc torties, a lilac tortie, lilac girl, red boy and choc boy. All seem to be doing well so far. Must take some pics soon. That's the good news.

I've had no luck at all in selling Molly's Asian kittens, they are now over 10 weeks old and I've had just one enquiry which came to nothing. I can't afford to get them vaccinated, registered or neutered, but will somehow have to manage to do all these things fairly soon........

On top of the expense I had with Rusty last month, I am now facing another huge vet bill for Molly, who has had an intussusception necessitating emergency surgery on Monday afternoon. I'm expecting to be able to bring her home later today, but the bill is likely to be almost £500........

I am currently trying to find a job for the first time since 1992, but there's not going to be much chance at my age :(( especially when I have no skills other than in laboratory work and those are so out of date as to be useless.

Just to make things even worse, Andy Murray lost in the 4th round of the US Open and is back down to no. 3 after only 5 weeks or so at no. 2!!

Douglas goes off to Uni on Sunday so it's going to be very strange with no-one around for 90% of the time.

I had to have Rusty put to sleep yesterday at 10.15am :(

He was 7 years, 1 week and 2 days old - I wanted him to live at least twice that long. He had been seen last Tuesday at the Queen's Veterinary Hospital (Cambridge University) where they diagnosed some sort of spinal tumour; we could not afford the MRI scan (approx. £1600) to determine the exact cause of him losing the use of his legs and in any case any surgery would have been extremely risky (not to mention expensive). Many thanks to Gordon my vet and Wendy the nurse for their kindness yesterday morning.

Rusty was my example to potential kitten owners of the joys of Burmese neuter boys. I have no reds or creams left, for the first time since 1988. Not a good situation.

In fact I now have "only" 13 cats (including Sophie the Asian kitten who I didn't really intend keeping) - I don't think I want to be left with that number for too long........

Teemu went to his new home last Friday, Theo went in May, Kimba earlier in July. Just one (Burmese) stud boy left now, for the moment (although Dexter is more than likely capable, but the only potential queen for him has never called - at the age of 14 months!)

HOT, HOT, HOT

It is HOT!!!

and we have a Wimbledon semi-finalist - c'mon Andy!! (he shares my birthday)


first time since Tim Henman in 2002. Can he reach the final??

End of an era

Definitely past time for an update!

Douglas finished his last A level this morning (chemistry) so this means that I will never have to do another "school run", after 12 years :)

Well unless you count the drive to school in August to collect the results........

Cherry's kittens are all spoken for except for Sophie, who has now turned out to be silver, and may well end up as a Burmilla rather than a ticked tabby - if she does not find a home I might not be too bothered as she would be quite a good outcross for Dexter.

They will be going to their new homes over the next couple of weeks, I've got loads of toys etc on order from Ebay to go in their "kitten packs".

Eagerly anticipating next Monday, the start of Wimbledon 2009 and a real chance of a British winner for the first time since 1936!!

http://www.wimbledon.org

http://twitter.com/Wimbledon

very happy.......

......because Greg has mated his first girl since his arrival........ pity she's not one of mine, but at least he's shown what he can do (I am impressed - he is almost as quick as Elmo!)

Hoping that Nina will call again soon as I have high hopes for potential kittens from the two of them.