Hot weather is here!

...and Hugo is home too! He's been having now extra quality time with his lady bunny while I am rushing through packing for the big conference.



Hugo had is post-op checkup and Dani is happy with the look of the wound, and confessed she is surprised how well Hugo pulled through, as there was quite an awful lot of pus in the wound :( He was on two drugs for appetite stimulation and gut mobility (metaclopromide and zantac) but he does not need to take them anymore, as his outputs have been excellent :) He now has to be on Baytril (0.4 ml 2x) and Metacam (1x)until next Friday, but all in all he is doing well. Mr. D will now be in charge of the medication for the next days when I am gone, and I am glad for him that it is just the two and not more, because Hugo is not an easy patient and can be very squirmish!

Thanks for all who wrote the lovely messages of support...I will write to you in your blogs a proper thank you very soon :)

Hugo's update

Well, I went in to the vets yesterday afternoon to visit Hugo and see how he was doing...the nurse brought him in the visiting room and let him romp around, and he was so excited sniffing and chinning anything in sight! He was surely bright and alert, but alas, he is still being fed Critical Care and although he likes the taste (or so the nurse said), he HATES being fed with a siringe!! Well, I would be furious too, wouldn't you? Yesterday still no poops, despite receiving gut mobility drugs etc, and still not eating on his own. He surely wants to make us suffer, the scoundrel!
This morning, Dani said he finally passed some currants, and he is still bright and alert but not eating...so she said if he still keeps on passing on currants he may be coming home this afternoon!! I have arranged to see him at 3pm, so if all goes well I can take him home then. Fingers crossed!

And now I shall leave you with a video of my furries that was shot in June... apologies for the not very steady camera hand!!

More on the bunnies....

Thank you to all who left a comment on my new post here...I am glad we were not forgotten, despite all what happened...I read some very sad posts and I promise that I will make a commemoration entry for the bunnies who left us too soon, they deserve it, and also you slaves who cared for them until the very end.

After a weekend when Hugo seemed to be not quite his usual self, looking for more and more cuddles especially from Miss Eve, and after he hardly ate his breakfast (Miss Eve: "All the more for meeeee!!"), I brought Hugo to the vets this morning. Luckily, they had a free slot at 10am, which is quite unusual for a Monday. We suspected tooth spurs again, but Dani could not see much inside Hugo's mouth, only because he kept on chewing the end of the instrument!! So I left him there to be put under the anaesthetic and hoped to pick him up sometime after 5pm. Dani called after the dental, which turned to be more than just grinding down some spurs. She could see that one of the molars had some pus near the gum, and although it was not moving she thought it best to take off the tooth altogether. Hugo got painkillers and antibiotics, and although he recovered well from the anaesthetic and being alert already by 4pm, the vet suggested to keep him in for the night also because he wasn't eating, so...Critical Care had to be siringed in him. I will be getting a call in the morning to see when I can take him home. I hope he will have started eating by himself by then, otherwise we will have to have food fight with Critical Care!
Wish us luck, will you?

Useless at blogging...

...and this is what happens when the weather improves, the bunnies demand to be left out in the garden more often, and the days suddenly are too short to do much on the net. I have been neglecting plenty, but I have been knitting quite a bit and...I am still alive! Sock Wars III is still going on, and I haven't been socksinated yet, isn't it incredible?
I have plenty of pics to upload and catch up with the blogs of all the friends here...I am ashamed to say that I haven't had much time for reading online either, as most of the time when I am on the PC nowadays it is all about work.
Talking about work, there is a big conference looming, and after that I will have two weeks off to sort out house, blog and myself. In the meantime, I will leave you with a few pictures...

We got tagged! - part two

Buggins tagged us through the alter-blog to a meme - here the rules in true buggins' words:

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• Answer at least three of the questions. Yes, I know a few look time-consuming and there are several of them. That's why I only ask for three. See? I'm nice!
• Post them and the rules on your blog, and please link back to me here. Pretty please *^_^* ?
• Comment here telling me and the rest of our little party where you're at and link to yourself.
• That's all!
• Oh yeah, don't forget to tag others!
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OK... brace yourself... here we go:

What's the last book you read that you thought was really super, inspiring, you'd recommend it to most anyone?

Oh dear... a tough one because there are at least 3 books I would recommend, as far as my reads this year are concerned. At the risk of sounding a bit predictable/obvious, I'd go for A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini because I can imagine to be able to recommend to absolutely everyone. It is a beautifully written novel... if you want to know more, just follow the link for my review.

What food totally grosses you out, you'd never be able to touch it? Ew. Gag. *hurl*

I've been now vegetarian for almost 8 years, but even in my meat eating days I'd never ever tried anything with innards....guts... yuck!

Did you ever watch a scary movie that frightened you so much you were afraid of the dark afterward? I mean like you're lying in bed trying to sleep, but you have to pee, but you're scared to get up. It doesn't have to be recently; could be when you were a kid. So what movie was it?

It was the Texas Chainsaw Massacre, 1974, Tobe Hooper. Me scared back in 1981. That was seriously scary... however, when I watched it a few years ago, it did not feel that scary anymore. Must have been because I was watching it on my own at night on an old b/w tv set...there's something about scary films in b/w, don't you think?

Is there a song that makes you dance every time you hear it? Would you tap you feet and sing along to it in public?

Easy! Disconnected by Face To Face :) Those guys rock! (and there are tattoos!!)

Tattoos: yes or no? Do you have any? Tell us! Do you think they're gross? TELL US!

Yes from me...I like them (but not if the whole body is a tattoo!!). I don't have any because I am a chicken and too scared of the needle...ouch! But... I've always liked some of those sported by many musicians in punkrock bands. So. I've said it now.

When's the last time you laughed so hard your ribs ached and/or you nearly peed yourself? What made you do it?

Hmmm.. I think it was one of the jokey allegations my OH made about me strategically placing boxes in shady corners of the house, so that he can stomp his toes on them... kind of a planned maiming or so. His description of the act was so funny that I had tears running down my face and could not stop it!

Draw or doodle a picture of your pet(s) and post it if possible. Nothing fancy, don't be shy!

Ok... this is my interpretation of Miss Eve:

Go through a stack or box of your old music. Stuff that you may not have heard in years. Pick one and tell us about it. Is it as good (or as bad) as you remember?

First and Last and Always by the Sisters of Mercy... the LP!! I haven't listened to it for aaages but I still like it...reminds me of my last year at the university and a very happy time (my sense for dressing was a bit off, though...LOL!)

Do you still sleep with a stuffed animal? We won't laugh!

Not WITH, but there's a few stuffed animals very close by my bed:
two bunnies, a sheep and an angel dog, all hopefully watching over my sleep :)

Time to tag some people now.... so, here my choice of victims:

- Azzuka
- Anya's mum

Thanks for the meme :)

We got tagged! - part one

Hugo has not had contact with kitties as far as we know, but he got a surprise tag yesterday from Sophia aka Diva Kitty
It is the so called Three Names Meme and was started by Tara. Sophia knows bunnies have secret names ...she's a clever one!

Three Names Meme - Lots of kitties wanted to know what Tara’s three names were after her Mom went to see Cats the other night. It got Tara and Kavan to thinking of a fun meme. In case you aren’t familiar with The Naming of Cats, in the Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats, by T.S. Eliot, we all have three names! So, in this meme, you must link to the originator of the meme (that is Tara), list the following rules, and then tell:

1. The name that the family uses daily (such as Peter, Agustus, Alonzo, or James) 2. The name that is particular, a name that’s peculiar, and more dignified (such as Munkustrap, Quaxo, or Coricopat) 3. What you are doing when you are thinking of the name that only you know, and will never confess (when engaged in rapt contemplation), that deep and inscrutable singular name. Then tag three cats (and let them know they are tagged) to give us their names.

Hugo's answers are:

1. Hugo
2. The Bun
3. Stretching in happy feet pose snuggling to Miss Eve.

Now Hugo tags

1. Zinger the Dutch
2. Olive (another Dutch!)
3. Myntti the finnish bun

Hugo (and Miss Eve)'s update

Thank you to all of you who left messages while Hugo was at the vets... it worked!! I am happy to say that Hugo went through his dental (and anaesthetic) with flying colours. While he was under, at my recommendation they took an x-ray of his skull and a nasal swab to test for the cause of his sneezing. The x-ray showed only that he has quite long teeth roots, but nothing that would indicate trouble or a reason for the sneezing. Now we're waiting for the results on the cultures of the swab... probably they won't be back before 2 weeks, so we shall wait and see.
Hugo was a bit quiet yesterday after his return, and Miss Eve went straight into the carrier to say hello. First thing she did was give him a good wash...all the nasty hospital smells, yuck!
After I saw that Hugo was a bit more stable on his legs, I let both out in the living room, with the carrier still close by, and first thing Hugo and Eve did was to chin all corners, then go inside and have a good pee! It must be their version of an exorcism ;-)
I had to bring Hugo back to the surgery this morning for the routine post OP checkup, and with the idea of giving Hugo is VHD vaccine if he was well enough.
When I opened their crate to let Hugo in the carrier, both jumped out and in they went in the carrier... so I thought it would be easier to bring both to the vet instead of trying to get Eve out, and so we did. Off we went into the bunnymobile (my OH is the bunny taxi driver!) to the vets. Hugo was good enough to get his vaccination and 10 minutes later we were on our way home. Hugo did some thumping once back in the crate, but a few pumpkin seeds sorted out the situation :)
Now they're happily munching on a mixed salad made of cauliflower leaves, spring greens, carrot slices, fennel greens, celery leaves and romaine, after playing catchin' in and out of the green tube...