back at last...

Well, I'm back here with a short message....the last 6 month's have been awful. Lots of sickness for my pets (Shelly had her 3rd heart attack; Sita had another hole in her back because of the staffylokok-bacteria and Zoë had a major jaw-operation; only Murphy was healthy.) and me and I'm still grieving so much for my missing cat. I just can not get over that...missing is so much worse than dead, because then, you have certainty and at least, you know, that the animal is "safe"....when the pet is missing, you know nothing and you keep on thinking where he is...if he's OK...if he has enough food....shelter....or if people are mistreating him....etc....really, this is killing me. I do not understand how people move on in a situation like this; I really don't! I'm just so sad 24/7....

GREAT Give Away.

Bowlsnannies is having another GREAT Give Away: the cutest rag doll you've ever seen! But....hurry...there is not much time!

Here is the place to sign up:
http://itsaboutannie.blogspot.com/

You can see pictures of the doll there, too.

poor hedgehog died.

Well, as I expected...the poor little hedgehog didn't make it; he died. The hedgehog-rescue here only accepts them if there is blood visible, but shock is just as dangerous, of course; maybe even more dangerous! And the poor animal definitely was in shock over the fireworks that were practically thrown ON his head while he was sleeping...

But since it's freezing heavily here (minus 15 degrees Celsius), I can't bury him just yet....my garden is an animal-cemetery...so I'll have to wait until the temperatures go up again.

But...after just 5 days, 25.000 people have signed the petition against fireworks and 40.000 signatures are needed for the issue to be handled by politicians, so this is going very well!

Terrible fireworks!

The new year is here....and the fireworks were just awful and lasted from 10 a.m. on the 31st until 2.30 a.m. this morning! And they are still at it, today. My poor pets were (and still are) so very frightened: the dogs still don't want to go outside (I have to drag them!) and Zoë has been hiding in the closet since yesterday morning! Only Murphy is OK now. *sigh*

But...there is hope....today, a petition has been started to ban fireworks for non-professionals! The Netherlands are one of the few countries that allows non-professionals to handle fireworks themselves, causing lots of troubles and accidents, every year on New Year's Eve. (But is starts weeks earlier and lasts for days into the new year, too.) Plus all those scared pets and animals living in the wild!

I rescued a poor hedgehog in shock, yesterday. He was just lying there...in the middle of the street, not curled up. Fingers crossed, he'll survive!

So, if you love animals and live in the Netherlands, you can go here to sign the petition:

http://www.petities.nl/petitie/burgerinitiatief_meer_plezier_met_minder_vuurwerk/

Thanks!

Cheer up your doors. ;-)

Last year, I bought some decoration-stickers on sale, but I had no idea what to do with them...until I came up with this:





Doesn't it look cheerful? :-)

snow in November

We are having snow in November...again....last week for a few days and today, yet again.




So you just have to stay warm:





I wish all pets could stay warm like this....they all deserve it so much!