Oh good heavens, nearly killed my friend Louise's little dog called Muffu. This littlt dog is just the best ever, and louise can take her anywhere, and most restaurants who came to know Louise and her little shadow, allowed Muffu to sit with Louise. And she did just that. She will lie at Louise's feet without making a noise untill it is time to go.
So, I almost killed her! I heard a noise in my kitchen a week before, and found another giant of a rat nibbling away on my Margerine holder, I got really mad, as with all the other wildlife taking their toll at my poor plants and nervous system, I had become quite murderous! I went to the co-op the next day, and got rat poisoning pellets, although I have sworn never to use them again. But I have tried every gadget to catch this critters, and nothing works, mr Rat being way to clever to be caught in any trap!
Then Louise came to pick me up, and I clean forgot about the pellets that I had coated so nicely with margerine, and which mr Rat had decided he would not touch. I went into the kitchen to make us a coffee, and saw only Muffu's backside sticking out from behind the coalpan where I had put the poison, her tail wiggling madly, as though in seventh heaven! And it hit me between the eyes! The bally Poison! I pulled the dog out, and found the plate quite empty, and Muffu licking her lips in delight! felt the old ticker give a few nasty jolts, then pumping away like mad, and self felt very dizzy, but shouted at Louise that her dog had just devoured every bally rat poison pellet I had put out!
After some quite interesting steps around the room, and some wailing, Louise pulled herself together, and phoned her vet, but this vet was 140 km away, and she was hosting a going away lunch for all her friends, as she is moving closer to Cape Town. She had come to fetch me, as my car was being spray painted, because one stupid thieve had tried to get into it, and damaged the door badly!
The vet told her to make a ball from washing powder and a little water, and stick that down Muffu's throat, and that should make her vomit everything out.
We did that, and within minutes Muffu started wretching, and then out came everything in her tummy, and I almost cried from relieve when I saw the green pellets! It had just started to dissolve in her tummy, so the vet sent up some vitamin K to combat any bleeding!
I have picked two monster pumpkins this morning, and can't decide whether to boil them and freeze it after, or whether to attempt drying them. I have at the moment a fewslices out in the sun, and it seems that the Haarlem women talked sense when they discussed the drying of veggies!
I just love the donkeys who make a turn at my gate every day to graze. They are quite gentle, and do not, like the cows and horses, try and push open the gate to get to my garden!