Complaints

There have been some complaints about my last post... mostly that I have left you all in the lurch about what is happening in our GP focused world.

We had the burial service the next morning, after spending that night relocating the remaining GP's to the spare bathrooms' shower recess. They are safe there, a barrier of glass provides them with safety and the dogs can look and quiver some more. They are still hiding under their house, but they are getting more comfortable with it all.

We buried the baby in a tyre in the vegetable patch. Our plan is to plant a pretty flower in there soon and remember him/her that way. It was a hard thing to do for the Little Men, but they made me proud and did all they could to help the process along.

Previously on 'The Animal Chronicles', we had another dog attack victim who passed into the next land. It was a mouse baby who stuck it's head out of the wire cage to have a sniff and had it half bitten off by Ruby... so distressing for The Middle Man... that one took me a long time to talk around... We had a memorial service that night. The Little Man forced us to light every candle in the house and we all had to stand in silence and honour the tiny life the mousey baby had had.

One starts to wonder sometimes why it is that we continually give life to other little creatures, to have them die suddenly at the hands (or paws) of our other pets. Shouldn't we be doing a better job of protecting these little beings? Am I a bad person? All these deaths kind of get to me sometimes, but in a few months I will be getting ready to do it all again. There is something wrong with that... do I not value the life of an animal enough, no matter how small?

Hmmm... so the long shot of it all is that we are now going to get rid of the GP's full stop! I cannot live with this stress anymore. It is just too awful to never know when I will walk out and find them cowering under their boxes as they wait for the dogs to dig a big enough hole to get to them... etc etc...

I found a home for two of them, a mother and daughter couple... I cannot yet give away the mother and baby as I don't know yet if baby is a boy or girl. If it is a boy it will no doubt be bonking his mother at the earliest opporunity. That is what has happened to the mother I was going to give away this weekend... her son had squeeeeeezed into her cage the morning I took him to the pet shop and had 'done' his mother. She is now pregnant with her own grandchildren... OMG! I can't give someone 2 GP's, and then have them morph into 4 or 5 in a couple of weeks time... that would be so not cool!