Narrowboat Alacrity

With holidays looming I was just checking the cats vaccination certificates and found that Katie was due for her booster, I dutifully booked her in to the vets………………..

Katie is a small cat, and has been ever since we got her from the Woodgreen Animal Shelter she is active and eats like a horse.

The vet prodded and poked her and said “shes lost some weight since you were last here” I explained that she was always small “mmm we had better do some tests they won’t take long” said the vet and rattled off something that was out of the script of Holby City with a price tag that would feed a third world country.

The vet told me to wait in the waiting room and they would get a blood sample and give Katie her booster.

That’s what she thought…………………..a yowl rent the air……..  it sounded like Katie was objecting to giving blood, normally she doesn’t make any noise unless she’s killing her stuffed mouse.

The vet appeared a mite dishevelled and bloody  ”she’s a bit feisty, can you give us an hour to calm her down and take the sample”……………………………….

An hour later I went back to pick Katie up…………. well the vet looked worse than Katie ” we got a blood sample but we haven’t given her her booster yet she’s too upset”……………”Upset” looking at Katie sat quietly in her basket having a wash………….no you don’t say……..

Leaving the vets with a smug cat and the “Call us on Monday for the results” ringing in my ear. and a wallet £76 lighter and still no booster……………

Groundhog Day………………

My Blog may be all over the place at the moment as I’m playing around with Plugins and learning more about Wordpress  trying to make the blog more mine so please bear with me.

Today the SWMBO decided to spring clean “Take Cover” The cats, fur ruffled shot out the cat flap, me being more rotund wouldn’t fit through so I was captured…………….what I had realy wanted to do was work some more on mastering Wordpress. This was not to be………………

So I was put to work de-scaling the shower head and spraying something toxic into the oven that was reputed to be the holy grail of cleaners, as I was coughing and spluttering the cats sneaked back and did what they do best and bagged the warmest place the in the conservatory and were instantly asleep.

Rosie (on the left) is 15 and Katie (on the right) is 13 both came from the Woodgreen Animal Shelter at Godmanchester near Cambridge.

Don’t let the picture deceive you although they look as if butter wouldn’t melt they are a pair of con artists and whoever said that “Dogs have Masters and Cats have Servants” was very right.

Well having earned enough “Brownie Points” I have escaped to the study (posh name for the small bedroom) to continue to try and wreak havock on my blog.