(to recap: we bought the house, we moved to France and our horse was menaced by a ten foot long caterpillar - nothing unusual there then ( Read more... )

(to recap: we'd moved to France and ticks had moved onto Gypsy - our giant puppy - and given her pyroplasm. Now comes the episode that people said couldn't be true. But it is. Behold the ten-foot long caterpillar ( Read more... )

(to recap: our dog's sprawled out on death's doorstep and to get to the vet in time we had to drive our untaxed car into town - the one the police a few weeks earlier had told me never to drive ( Read more... )

The vaccination over, Shelagh turned the conversation quickly towards pyroplasm. Yes, it was a problem, he told us, but there was a vaccination. Unfortunately, Gypsy was too young. We'd have to bring her back in May when she'd be old enough. In the meantime we could spray her, there was a produit that you could apply every month that gave some ( Read more... )

The cats were not the first of our animal population to visit the vet. That honour had fallen to Gypsy within the first week. We hadn't been able to have her vaccinated in England due to the export regulations - no vaccinations were allowed in the month prior to embarkation - so she was overdue ( Read more... )

(to recap: we'd bought the house, moved to France - now our pets, Gypsy the deerhound/crocodile cross and our two grey tabbies, Guinny and Gally, had to acclimatise ( Read more... )

(A new chapter, a new trial. And for the next few days it's cat stories. This one's about cats that fight, cats that shouldn't and owners that rush to the rescue ( Read more... )