Hello Di - happy Friday!  Hope all is well with you?

We're having an interesting Friday evening and feeling very guilty - we took Harvey for "the op" today - bless him!  Well actually I took Harvey for his op - that way Wayne said it was my fault!

The op went well and we picked him up at about 4 pm - he was a little dazed and confused but still a little character came through the anaesthetic haze and he wanted to jump up and say hello, followed by laying on his back and displaying all for everyone in the waiting room to see what they had done to him - it was quite funny actually as one man in the waiting room commented "oh he looks happy" at which point Wayne responded "no he's just had his balls chopped off!" 

He has had a fairly good evening - we tried to keep him quiet in his crate but he didn't really like it and so he is right now stretched out on the floor and we can see the whites of his eyes - he is totally out of it!  The funny thing is he's wearing little boys Bart Simpson boxer shorts back to front with his tail sticking out the button up fly to keep them on! It would be hysterical if we didn't feel so guilty!  Wayne is dying to get the camera out for some comical shots but guilt is stopping him for tonight anyway!  The nurse at the vets wanted us to have a collar for him but we had to explain we couldn't have one of those as Willow is terrified of them and we tried the little boys pants idea with Jester and it worked really well - you should have seen her face

But on the down side Jester is in big trouble - Wayne took him and Willow out for a nice walk this afternoon without the whirlwind around and Jester let him down - he went running off and wouldn't come back when called - when Wayne finally caught up with him he was eating from a dead rabbit - needless to say Wayne was not impressed and Jester got a good telling off - he's been in the bad books ever since.  More than anything its a worry cos you don't know why the rabbit was dead - you have to hope it didn't have anything horrible.

So anyway, thats our day - looking forward to the weekend although not sure how restful it will be following Harvey around to make sure he doesn't touch his stitches etc.

Speak to you soon

Rach, Wayne, Willow, Jester and a very sore Harvey!

Hiya Deb, We're all good thanks, just going through a bit of a blokey crisis. Rachael, (lovely wifey!) Has booked Harvey into the vets on Friday for the 'Op'! Can't get my head 'round it, we had Jester done, but that was 'bout 5 years ago and i'm sure I felt the same then. Still have this vision of him wearing little boy's boxer shorts to stop him getting at the stitches!

I guess it's a bloke thing, dunno if it's right or wrong, just remember when I was younger we had a dog (non staffie) who used to go missing if he got the scent of a girlie in season. (been there, done that!) Would hate to think Harvey might end up escaping, we live quite close to a busy road, a good friend of mine lost his dog under the wheels of a car a couple of years ago.

Hope you and Floyd are good, take care, speak soon. x

tractorgirl wrote:

Hi Rach, Wayne & bubbas, Hope you are all well. havent heard from you in a while! We are off to agility classes on Sunday the trainer thinks it will help Lilia focus () i think its gonna be a public humiliation but hey in for a penny in for a pound! Hope Harveys eye is better now. Thankfully ive finished my 2nd lot of chucklehead - no more now i dont think my liver can take it! Catch you soon. Love, hugs and kisses to all your babies xxx

Hello Di - sorry we haven't been in touch for a while!  We're all fine here thanks - no sign of a reoccurence with Harvey's eye - that cleared up some time ago thank goodness.  He's growing so quickly, I can't believe it - I don't remember the others growing so quick at 6 months!

We were hoping to have met up with Harvey's breeder last weekend - they were taking Sassy (Harvey's sister) to her first show and were hoping to call in to see us .  They asked Wayne to take some picures of Sassy and Loki (Harvey's dad) for the Staffy Annual but it didn't happen in the end. They had trouble with one of their other staffies Charlie - she was expecting pups and had them early - they had to do an emergency C-section and they lost one of the pups - I don't think I could cope with that.  I'm glad we decided not to breed!

Anyway, trying to find something good to watch on tele - not much on for a Friday night!  Merrydown and Jacques are with us again tonight - don't you just love Fridays!

Speak to you soon

Rach, Wayne, Jester, Willow and Harvey

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