Padberg Bed and Breakfast
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Escape artists!
... to the new sights and sounds.
Last Saturday Rosie decided it was time for them to move in. She took them over after lunch as she was off for the afternoon. All was going well and we thought we’d found a great solution for these two dogs. They wandered round the house and garden checking everything out and then settled down to relax. Less than an hour later Rosie came out of her room to find they had gone... The gate, which is very heavy and difficult for me ...
Dogs & puppies!
... So back we went to ask someone else. When you reach the hill out of town take a left, you can’t miss it, we were told again. Well, we did... As these are communal lands there is no such thing as left, right or straight, once you leave the main gravel road. The tracks crisscross each other and we didn’t want to get lost in the bush. Finally a lady started us out in the correct direction and, after many stops to ask people where we were, we finally made it. Easy when ...
Interns and escapees
... to have a go at them as they are one of the most valuable creatures in Namibia! Fortunately everything went smoothly and the cat quickly reversed into our box and we secured it onto the bakkie. He'd been fed and watered and seemed worn out. Probably from trying to escape the cage. We got back pretty late so the cheetah was left in his box until the following day. Thank god someone had saved us some food for dinner, especially as I'd missed out on lunch!
Thursday was spent doing ...
In no particular order
... amuse me when I’m walking around and someone shouts 'Hey Cheetah!’ from across the street, with a big smile and a wave J.
Gaby, our now ex-vet, left last week to follow her dream of working with hippos, her most favourite of all the animals. Fortunately I got to spend a day with her out in the field in her final days. Beauty was finally being re-homed and we also had to do a tongue biopsy on the mongrel dog we missed last month. But things never go as ...
Cheetah Conservation Fund - The Final Days
... to be extremely handsome and thus I often end up making a fool of myself in front of him), was helping me in the kraal by holding a sheep that I was trying to treat. I was using a large syringe to perform a high pressure flush with sterile liquid to clean out an abscess on said sheep, but the plunger of the syringe was sticking. I gave it a good whack on my knee and the plunger suddenly unstuck (which was the point), but unfortunately the point was pointed right ...
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