The travelling vet student strikes again! I won’t be back for a while – this time it’s the French Alps.

Au revoir!

Our little dog is six years old
And he’s smart as any damned kid
But when you mention the V.E.T.
He damned near flips his lid
Words like S.H.O.T shot
Or W.O.R.M worm
These are words that make him S.Q.U.I.R.M squirm

His Q.U.A.R.A.N.T.I.N.E. starts today
Coz he bit the V.E.T.
And then he ran away
He caused me and my wife
To have a big fight
And then both of them bit me
And that’s why I am
Gonna get a D.I.V.O.R.C.E.

She shouted get him Rover
And he jumped over
And bit my L.E.G.
She sank her teeth in my B.U.M.
And called me a *?**?
Well I’m telling you
That was my cue
To get O.F.F.ski
And I’m going down to the town tonight
To get a new B.I.R.D.

Oh yes His Q.U.A.R.A.N.T.I.N.E. starts today
Both my wife and my wee scabby dog
Will soon be hauled away
That’s why I spell out all of these words
So as my dog can’t hear
Oh I must admit that dog is actin’ Q.U.E.R. queer
Oh yes I must admit my dog is actin’ Q.U.E.R. queer

Eh, I’m a happy bunny tonight – I’m sitting in my room, drinking tea and eating an almond croissant, listening to Sam in her alternate identity as a DJ, I’ve got the hang of my new hobby LOTGD in that I’m not dead for the third time in one evening, and most of my jobs are going swimmingly. Might check up people’s blogs, do a bit of web wizardry (or web parlour tricks anyway) and happily pootle around. I’ve even cleaned my room!

The real bunny seems happy too, though she didn’t like the quiche crust I offered. She’ll probably like croissant…

Yup, she likes it. All is well.

You know when in reality you are walking along in your normal conservative fashion as you get from A to B, yet inside you’re cavorting along the road with happiness; the sky’s blue, the clouds are fluffy and the air’s warm – and life’s pretty dandy?

Aren’t half days wonderful?

Fabulous song – saw it on Jonathon Ross ages ago and just found out my sister (also known as Tenacious D) has it on cd! Might make a cd today.

Bunny appears better – her eyes have stopped rolling. She’s getting rather plump though from cagerest so I’m gonna let her out today – hopefully she won’t eat the router. Might give her a chance to work out how to walk in a straight line…

Bloody fantastic album this…

Is it possible to feel gruntled?

Well I solved the LAN problem. Lappy can’t comprehend that there may in fact be more than one ISP in the world but it can comprehend the idea of routers So I fixed our home network which has been playing up since we bought it – apparently the compy downstairs needs to be off at the mains or fully on – standby sends the whole network loopy. Only took 6 hours or so to work that out. So the old desktop is being downsized and all my stuff moved over to the lappy – I am no longer a two computer woman!

As for rabbit, I did end up going to A&E Sunday evening. She had a shot of antibiotics (enrofloxacin – Baytril) and I had a chat with the vet. Whole lot cost £44 – cheaper than I’d expected as she was a rabbit (cheaper consult) but still overpriced considering I turned up with a full history, a list of signs, a set of differential diagnoses and a selection of possible treatments. One wonders who was doing the consult. I did learn one thing though; encephalozoonosis (a brain protozoa) is not only in the US. So it is a possible differential, and not an unlikely one.

I scrounged oral Baytril from the vets on Monday so she’s been on that. She hasn’t got any better but she hasn’t got any worse – she’s changed from fast head flicking to static tilt – dunno if that’s better or worse. Today she also goes on oral potassium iodide, fenbendazole (wormer) and sub cut fluids. Potassium iodide is what they used before antibiotics existed – it penetrates pus much better than antibiotics so is helpful if your middle ear is full of pus. The wormer is for the encephalozoonosis – it kills the protozoa. i.e. we don’t know what it is but whatever it is it’s nasty so let’s go in with guns blazing! The fluids are because a bunny with a head tilt finds it harder to stay on the water bottle, and since it’s warm weather and I’m not here most of the day I want to make sure she’s hydrated. I’m sure you wanted to know my strategic dosing regime.

Apart from viewing the world at about a 40 degree angle, she’s alright in herself and is still eating almost normally. However two vets I’m on experience with have said plainly “ooo Bunny gonna die”. Which doesn’t fill me with confidence. Also I worry that they treat their clients the same way. Or maybe I’m just speshul. Lucky I’m of the bolshy “sod ‘em” mentality, ain’t it.

Work experience knackering. Must get in bed by 10 tonight. Also trying to get my rat project going as I only have 4 weeks :crazy: eek… Need more time…