Hello Woofers!
It's Daisy, Holly, Miss May, Miss Wendy, Freddy and Eric de Ferret here again!
OK, sorry, no pictures today 'cos we have all been very busy running around like blue tailed flies!
Eric and May came out for a walk first thing this morning but it was a little windy and just a teeny bit cold!
Not that it worried Eric too much but May did ask for a carry a couple of times!
Lunchtime it was Wendy who came out leaving Freddy de Snooze curled up in the cuddle cup bed!
The weather hadn't changed, it was still windy and just a little cold.
However......................
We have a wildlife pond in our garden that contains loads of insects and stuff that has arrived there by natural selection, with the exception of the frogs wot arrived in a plastic jug via Auntie Helen!
OTL got some aquatic plants to decorate the pond rim but all the rest is mother nature, including the three feet of rotting leaf mould from the tree in the garden.
Everything was going well and the plants got on with each other while the insects ate each other, as they do!
OTL does nothing other than top up the water level when the sun burns off the water during the hot weather.
Last year there appeared a strange looking plant that quickly took over the pond, killing off several of the plants and blocking the light from getting to the established plants. It played hell with the water snails and wiped out the plant that was supposed to make the water all clean and oxygenated! After it had made a really determined effort to take over not only the pond but all the surrounding areas, OTL decided it wasn't playing fair and started to dig it all up!
This year it has started to grow again!
Can't it take a hint?
So, armed with a sharp trowel, OTL set about digging up whatever new shoot stuck it's stalk and leaves above ground level and as much of the root as he could find!
Yesterday he decided that he was fighting a loosing battle and cold steel with a sharpy pointed end was not having the desired impression!
OTL has decided to 'Nuke' the unwelcome visitor that arrived in our garden via a lump of bird poo!
He has ordered up some syringes and a litre of commercial grade plant killer!
The plan is to let the stalk push its head up far enough so that OTL can stab it with a syringe full of Nasty Plant Nuking Fluid and that will kill off the roots and the stalk!
The best bit is it can be used around animals and sort of dies when it gets in contact with the earth!
If all goes to plan we should be rid of this foreign plant this year!
Well, that's the plan anyway!
All OTL has to do is sharpen the end of the needle if it won't go into the stalk but as he has loads of tools I'm sure that will be no problem!
So, that's what has been happening today!
We are all exhausted and are planning an early night, after a few nibbles of course!
See you tomorrow!
Luv,
Daisy, Holly, Miss May, Miss Wendy, Freddy and Eric de Ferret!
Yo maties. Well I'm sorry to hear about this plant wot has taken up residence by your pond. Now, I know a thing or 10 about syringes and needles, as I must be the most stabbed woofer in the south of England. Now I reckon a stabbing with a needle wot fits a huge syringe wot goes into a horses butt should do the trick. Luckily for me, cos I'm only little I usually get stabbed with the littlest needles. Let me know if you need bigger needles and I'll have a word with my friends at the vets. Now, talking of my friends the vets, off I went this morning for a check up after my recent troubles and I had two of the lady vets wot looked after me come and see how I was doing, these wimmin love me ...... anyways, it's been decided that I stay on the steroids and we try to get me on the lowest possible dose that keeps me well and comfortable. I got loads of cuddles and a big fuss made of me and they jut love me. I'm going to have the injection at the end of the month for my skin then at the end of next month I'll see Filippo the specialist again and see wot he reckons, maybe if the low dose of steroids keeps my skin and tummy fine then I won't need the stabbings. I'm still convalescing so I don't need to take my worming pill yet or have the flea stuff until I'm fully over my bad tum and I don't have to have my teeth done until after I've had the next stabbing and they'll decided then if I'm up to having my choppers descaled then. Me and my mum had a lovely siesta after we got home from the vets, all this cuddling and being cute and sniffing everything, one and where does really tire me out you know, it's such hard work being a little Arch. Hope Eric didn't get up to any tail nipping today. If OTL keeps working this hard he'll soon be snoozing with Freddy while you go out for your walks. It's been very windy here today and a bit cooler but at least we haven't had any rain. My boy is working until 8 again tonight so he'll be having a late dinner. Hope you all have a lovely evening with plenty of snackettes. Love, licks, wags and sniffs from little Arch and the Nippers xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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