Well the trip to the Vets was not as expensive as I had anticipated, though their boosters and Kennel cough vaccines still took me over the £100 barrier. On top of that I had to pay out for some frontline flea drops for them as I had run out.
When the nice doggy doctor checked them over he had the audacity to tell me Baron is a little overweight. Now I don't understand why this should be and told the vet so. One thing I can't stand is overweight pets as it is unnecessary. they both get their quota of food which Baron invariable leaves and Laddie tends to eat his own share plus Barons. They get one chewstick each a day for their teeth and that is it. No other treats allowed and yet the greyhound who eats everything in sight remains slender and the Whippet who tends to leave food rather then eat it is putting on weight. Hmm I know how he feels
The Vet also informed me that Laddie may need at least 4 teeth out as they are so rotten. In my last post I told you that Grey's do tend to have bad teeth due to their diet when they are racers. Well it has now taken its toll and we are looking at a bill of at least £400 to have them removed and that is if it is straightforward add a few hundred pounds to that figure if it is not
that will have to wait until after our holidays now as we can't afford it just yet. I did contact the pet insurance people and guess what you have pet insurance because you naively assume that it will help towards the cost of any operations etc, but no, apparently not. Dental work is not covered unless the dog has been in an 'accident'. You cannot claim for dental work you have been advised to have because it is purely cosmetic.
Cosmetic? It is a necessity. The roots are exposed and if he gets an infection in them it could end up in his bloodstream and he could die from it, but no I can't claim because it is cosmetic. Bloody insurance companies
Sometimes you wonder why you bother. I know why because you can bet your life that if I didn't have the insurance something drastic would happen which would cost thousands of pounds to put right and not the hundreds for a few teeth!! They have you every which way.
In other news, as it is cooler today I started on the mountain of ironing. Instead of having one mountain of unironed clothing I now have several mountains of ironed clothes.
One mountain is labelled up with clothes we need to pack
One mountain is full of clothes we might take with us
Another one is clothes we are definitely not taking and will be put away
My list of things to do, is growing. There is only 13 days till we go and I am beginning to panic just a little. I keep thinking of things we have to do, things I have to pay for and things that still need to be done. I love my lists but sometimes it can be a burden. How do people manage just to chuck a few clothes into a suitcase and go? I know that is what my hubby would do if I left him to it. Perhaps that is what I should do. Then again perhaps not he is likely to forget we need underwear, or forget to pack the passports. In the meantime i shall keep looking at my lists and try and be a little more organised. It doesn't help when I have to colour co ordinate my youngests clothes that he will be taking. Perhaps I am OCD afterall lol
Right enough of this rambling, lets go and finish this ironing!
