Thursday 8 May 2008

Waiting to be filed?


I couldnt resist taking this photo of Fatticat and Felix, 2 of our resident cats who have sneaked into the office for an afternoon nap!One was in the Letters to reply, the other in the Letters to post!
There is still no sign of Big Ginge aand no luck as yet trapping Sam the cat in Bangor. Some cats are impossible to trap, they can be so knowing and wily.I will not be able to rest until he is safe here, he must be feeling distressed by now, his owner has been gone several days and the house is locked up.
Everybody seems to be enjoying this wonderful weather, this morning I heard the first cuckoo.I love that sound almost as much as that of migrating geese.The name of the road leading to the shelter is Lon Pant-y-gog which in English means Cuckoo Dip Lane. Cuckoos nest here every year and it looks like swallows are nesting in one of the horse field shelters.They are swooping in and out all day.I hope they will be safe from the cats though they seldom use that field, mostly the cats stay round the yard and their feeding/sleeping area with a few spending time round the horses stables.
In the evening there are always bats flying about, some little pipistrelles and also the larger Lesser horshoe bats of which there is a large colony locally.Thankfully the cats seem disinterested in them, I would hate to find little corpses everywhere.
Yesterday was taken up driving backwards and forwards to the vet with animals to be treated or neutered.We could do with some volunteer drivers, it is time consuming and there is so much to do in the office and back at the shelter.On the way back I stopped briefly at the beach to let William have a run, he travels with me almost everywhere,he hates to be left behind but in this weather it really is too hot for him so he enjoyed a brief dip in the sea before we headed back home.The journey to our vet surgery in Pwlhelli is amazing, you have the sea on one side , fields on the other and mountains ahead.Stunning!

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