8 weeks on - 6:53 PM, 24/7/2009

Poppy's abscess tripled in size after coming home from the vet.  It was quite horrible.  However, it has since burst which must have been both a relief & also painful for her.  I really hope it stays small or even disappears on its own with another month of daily pain relief & antibiotics.  She's really happy, eating all her food & following us into the toilet as she normally does so she seems really happy.  She's booked in at the vets on 4 August to try again for abscess removal.  Once they sedate her they'll check her heart rate again.  If it's still beating strangely, surgery won't proceed & she'll go on heart medication.  Not sure what happens then though?!

Lulu has decided that the loungeroom is her home.  She doesn't like her spot in the kitchen next to Isabelle.  She wasn't going to the toilet in her tray or drinking her water until we would let her out for a run.   All night she'd just lie in her tray & mope for the next 8 hours until someone got up & let her out to the loungeroom.  Straining to go to the toilet I think was because she was holding on.  She seems quite fine now since we've opened up the door from the kitchen so she can have permanent access to half the hallway. She now has non slip mats, a second tray full of hay & a second cardboard box to play with.  She seems much happier.

Isabelle has sneezed a number of times & a little bit of sticky snot comes out of her nose (she's done that since she arrived).  She's probably spread it around to the other two buns but it doesn't seem to be too bad and probably expected from that cess pit that they came from.   She's quite a character & pops up under our feet around the kitchen.  She's taken to spreading out on one of our rugs right under the stove.