Megan le Fey
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Hi,Thank you Pickles, I deserve a smack on the wrist for not looking it up myself. My only excuse – I am just generally a bit distracted lately. Emmaus sounds good as a last resort and perhaps they will take a cooker which I also must get rid of, and then there are all those things which are useless to take back to UK., ie telephones, a load of electricial plugs, sockets, extensions, telephone plugs etc. The only thing about the books and Emmaus – is anyone going to want to buy books from there in English? Chancer, perhaps we can make a plan about posting some to you – I would rather they went to someone who wanted them or else to one of those charity bookstalls, pref. for animals like the book sales that Phoenix do. Unfortunately, Phoenix are too far from me. We are going to South Wales but our stuff is going into storage for 6 months so when we go, I have to pack Frank & me plus a Great Dane and a German Shepherd and suitcases and just too much other stuff to have room to take them with us.I know just what you mean Judith. I also was a librarian for a while 'tho it was a reference library at the British High Commission in Nairobi. You get a kind of respect for books, any books, and it is sad to just chuck them away. Unfortunately, I suspect that the “man with a van” is going to have less room in it than he claims and so I am having to whittle down all the stuff I have to be sure that I don't have to chuck away stuff that I really want on moving day.
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What's an Emmaus please Pickles?
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I am now starting to pack up ready to leave in less than 4 weeks. I am a hoarder, especially of books - don't know why but I have always regarded even the most mundane volume as something to be treasured but of course, especially in this age of technology, they are not at all precious. Anyway, I just found yet another little hoard and decided that enough is absolutely enough and they will be off to the dechetterie but thought I would give them a week or so stay of execution just in case anyone on here both lives near enough to me to collect and is interested in them. I am afraid that they are old (30 odd years or so) but in no way old enough to be valuable. I put pics of some on photobucket and here is the link. http://s60.photobucket.com/albums/h15/miggimeggi/Books%20to%20give%20away/ There are also a bunch of cookery books, same sort of age. I have already packed them but could probably find them if anyone was interested.
If anyone is interested and lives around Chateauroux or La Chatre (Dept 36), I am about half-way between the two, please PM me.
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Have finally given up trying to cope alone with Frank's Alzheimer's in France and hope to return to UK beginning to mid-October. I have a fair bit of furniture and stuff and wondered if anyone is moving here around about that time and if their movers would like to do a deal on a back-load. I live between Chateauroux and La Chatre (Centre). I have been quoted 2500 pounds for a move from here to Wales which seems rather a lot - to be truthful, I could probably dump the lot and save money. Unfortunately, there will be some stuff left that I would want to keep and, with one German Shepherd, one Great Dane and two of us, even my lovely and willing ancient Volvo station-wagon just couldn't cope.Any ideas folks?
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You're amazing Merlin!
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"quote the wee p - I know exactly how you felt, were stuck in a traffic jam on the bypass and when we got to the emergency service vehicles we could see a golden retriever sitting on the left lane, it was alive, back end was away, obvious it had been clipped, i keep thinking about it, sat there and the gendarme just standing waving on the traffic, horrible things accidents! - unquote"Yes, utterly horrible. I was in a "pay per seat" taxi in Singapore going up Orchard Road. There was a GSD type dog in the middle of the road, also alive and struggling to get up on useless back legs. The driver wouldn't stop nor did anyone else and I just watched through the back window as we sped away. That was more than 40 years ago yet I can still see every detail as if it had been yesterday.
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Yeah, whenever it gets better, it is always after our pensions have already arrived.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3PsI48Klj0http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G46kV73rzt4&NR=1Sorry, using Google Chrome and can't make links live. You will have to copy & paste.
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Ohhhh, WOW. What stunning dogs!!!
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Apologies to all the snakes in France, and to Gardian for making her nervous in her garden. Yesterday, after close to two weeks, my vet decided that Connie was not snake-bitten but that she has, after all, ruptured a cruciate ligament. The next move it seems is a specialist surgeon in Limoges but that's not for the Wildlife Forum. I'd put a smilie here somewhere but Google Chrome won't let me have any.
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I rent a house here from a French landlady. I rented it unseen through one of the many immobilier websites, told the agent that I had two Great Danes. She said that there was no problem and so far, after two and a bit years there hasn't been. I see that the dogs behave theirselves and if they cause any damage (which up 'til now, they haven't), I must pay - and rightly so.
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Yes, I went and had a look at the Total France forum and saw this post. The thing is, I am not sure but believe that anti-venom is species specific and I didn't see the snake, although I believe that there are only two probabilities. It was also a couple of days before the vet began to look for an alternative to either a dislocation or a ruptured cruciate. I had wondered about anti-venom when he told me it was snake-bite (he was very positive about it) but I am afraid that I felt that if it was either necess. or likely to be effective he would have said so.She does seem to be on the mend. She still will not put the foot down but the swelling whilst still bad, does seem to be subsiding. I was mistaken when I said that he had taken her off the anti-inflammatory, actually he had changed it for a different one. The best news is that she has started to eat again. If the police saw her now, they would arrest me for cruelty. She is all bones after almost a week without food but now she wants to make up for it all in one go and I am having to ration her and am giving her 4 small meals a day in order not to overload her.I see that a mod on Total France deleted the link. Bit petty don't you think or am I being over-critical?
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She is much less depressed than she was and drinking huge amounts of water. Unfortunately, she is insisting that, as food goes, cubes are out and raw chicken breast is in. Since yesterday, she is just starting her second packet of 6. We have an RDV with the vet tomorrow evening so perhaps he will come up with something new. I had thought of a 2nd opinion when he said "snake-bite" but thought that he probably gets quite a few and would know one when he saw it. Unless I can feel that it is not to her detriment to go with the treatment she is on, I guess I will look at a second opinion. I just hate the implication that I don't trust this vet. http://i60.photobucket.com/albums/h15/miggimeggi/Great%20Danes%20at%20St%20Aout/Connie/IMGP0091.jpg
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Chris, early this morning I sort of force-fed her some roast chicken mixed to a paste with the pan juices and a little cream. She went out to "spend a penny" and got back on her sofa herself - until now I have had to lift her on. Just now she ate slices of raw chicken breast by herself so, fingers crossed, she is on the mend. During the night she was red hot, eyes glazed and breathing so fast that I thought she was going to fit. I covered her body and the leg with towels soaked in iced water and kept changing them for about an hour after which she settled down to a natural sleep and was cool-ish again. I am hoping that the worst is over but the leg is still worse than useless, just hanging with the toes turned backwards and still massively swollen.When I first took her to the vet we thought the problem was an injury and it was only a couple of days later, after the X-rays showed nothing physically wrong that he said that it was snake-bite. I asked him why we could see no punctures and he told me that sometimes you cannot see it. She hasn't been given any treatment other than the anti inflammatory and antibiotics.I hope the vet hasn't got it wrong and it is something like a ruptured cruciate ligament. He X-rayed it twice - surely he couldn't get something like that wrong?
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Very sorry to hear this Anne. How is Connie?
[/quote]I just got back from the vet an hour ago and he gave me more antibiotics and told me to stop the anti-inflammatories. I have another RDV for Tuesday. Her leg is still hugely swollen but whilst still tender, seems not to be as painful as yesterday.I am most worried about her not eating. She still hasn't eaten anything (except half a packet of mousse de canard) since Wednesday morning although she is now drinking by herself. I bought her a can of that liquid food from the pharmacy - more than ten euros a can and by her weight she should have about six to nine cans a day. She seems to like it but I still have to give it by syringe but I hope it will stimulate her appetite. The vet is still determinately not optimistic and says that it will be a long time before she is recovered. I am determined that she will. -
Sorry, duplicate.
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I haven't seen the fat grey ones here yet but when I lived in South Africa there were several different types of ticks, including the fat grey leathery ones which are not so fat when they are still hungry. Full ones are about the size of a ladies little finger nail and fat, grey/blue and leathery describes them perfectly. I am pretty sure there is a larval stage but whether your particular brown one is its own species or the larval stage of another, I couldn't guess.
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I also posted this on Pets. Wednesday morning Connie(big girl - Great Dane) came in carrying one hind leg and howling in pain. I got her to the vet, hoping for a dislocation and fearing a ruptured cruciate ligament. The vet thought that the cruciate was most likely and sent me away with anti-inflamm. meds. He said that it was too swollen and too painful to be able to manipulate etc. to properly diagnose and to return Friday pm. Instead of subsiding, the swelling got far worse and, from her behaviour, the pain also. She wouldn't eat or drink anything and I was syringing water into her but she is still a little dehydrated. When we got back to the vet today he was concerned for infection and for a possible broken leg or whatever so he did X-rays and everything came out normal. Anyway, to get to the point, he decided that she has been snake-bitten. When I expressed my relief that it wasn't anything very bad (not to mention expensive) he suggested that it could actually be very bad and that it is not a foregone conclusion that she will recover OK. After half a lifetime in Africa, anything less than a mamba, a puff adder or a gaboon viper has always seemed to be small potatoes. Are there seriously poisonous snakes here? Connie weighs 60kg so should be able to cope with a mildly poisonous bite, however, her leg is very, very swollen and still very painful and she hasn't eaten since Wednesday although she did take a drink by herself a few minutes ago.
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Wednesday morning Connie(big girl - Great Dane) came in carrying one hind leg and howling in pain. I got her to the vet, hoping for a dislocation and fearing a ruptured cruciate ligament. The vet thought that the cruciate was most likely and sent me away with anti-inflamm. meds. He said that it was too swollen and too painful to be able to manipulate etc. to properly diagnose and to return Friday pm. Instead of subsiding, the swelling got far worse and, from her behaviour, the pain also. She wouldn't eat or drink anything and I was syringing water into her but she is still a little dehydrated. When we got back to the vet today he was concerned for infection and for a possible broken leg or whatever so he did X-rays and everything came out normal. Anyway, to get to the point, he decided that she has been snake-bitten. When I expressed my relief that it wasn't anything very bad (not to mention expensive) he suggested that it could actually be very bad and that it is not a foregone conclusion that she will recover OK. After half a lifetime in Africa, anything less than a mamba, a puff adder or a gaboon viper has always seemed to be small potatoes. Are there seriously poisonous snakes here? Connie weighs 60kg so should be able to cope with a mildly poisonous bite, however, her leg is very, very swollen and still very painful.I shall post this on Wildlife as well in case there is any info. to be had from the experts there.
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A lady 'phoned me a little earlier to ask if I had lost a dog and said she had found one on the autoroute. I told her that my two were both safe and here beside me and before I could ask her anything else (my French is bad, slow and hesitant) she thanked me and hung up. I can't stop thinking about it. For her to have had my number she or someone must know me or my dogs so I wonder if the dog is a Dane or GSD which brings it closer to home so to speak. I keep thinking of the fear of a dog lost on a busy road, was it abandoned or just lost. How I wish I just didn't care about the animals, life would be so much easier.
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QUOTE ROWANRef the passport, I am sure that means a UK passport; she wouldn't have mentioned a passport at all otherwise, as by far the majority of her adopters are from the UK.Rowan UNQUOTECould I suggest that you make sure that the passport does include the blood test. When we took Val we had understood that his passport was valid for UK but it did not include the blood test required for UK and was only valid for the rest of Europe and USA (from whence he was imported in the first place). I am sure that Rowan is right but better to be certain. One of my nightmares is to arrive at a channel port all ready to go and to be told, "you can't take the dog/s".
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I got my very first Dane like this, more than 30 years ago and the parallels are amazing. The Afrikaans owner was looking for a "trophy dog" to up his status amongst his boeties so he got a black Dane and called him Judas. He was also 9 months old when he was advertised for sale, also too big and too boisterous for cute little wifie and kiddie so he was shut in a shed, fed twice a day and ignored. When he was let out of the shed he was paranoid, excited, frenzied, leaping everywhere. We didn't want him but couldn't leave him so we paid the man what he asked, changed his name to Rupert and took him home. We never ever regretted it. He became the most adorable and gentle pet once he was loved and given attention and allowed to be a puppy and then to grow up into a real part of the family and to know that he belonged.There must be someone out there who can give this puppy just the few weeks he needs to settle a little. He will surely reward them the way Rupert rewarded us with love, fun and loyalty.
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Quote Lisa...........glad the day went well, I didn't come to the open day as I 've offered a home for micheal when the time comes ,this allowed merlin to offer a home to molly . hope you manage to save a few more, we adopted a dog at the spa 7 years ago, he had spent 4 years there , he was already considered an oldie at the grand old age of 7!! we love him to bits. UnquoteOh, Lisa, I am so happy to hear about Michael. You may remember, I have his "home sister", Connie and have been worried about Michael but didn't want to ask Jo in case the news was bad, she has been having such a hard time lately and I was afraid I would upset her. I hope everything goes well and I look forward to reading that he has arrived and is settling in.
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How can someone just "lose" two beauties like these? How I wish I had room for another two. There must be someone out there..................
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