farthing
31-10-2008, 05:54 PM
Got home from work, feeling rubbish as I've had a chest infection all week and had a lie down as I was knackered.
Started to nod off, when to phone rang, and it was a lady who took one of our foster dogs, she's a mental health nurse. One of their patients had gone into hospital on Tuesday and his social worker was supposed to organise care for the dog and cat, dog was no problem as he had his vaccinations, and he is now in kennels until the owner gets out. Did we know of anybody who would take in a cat with no vaccinations. Social worker is off sick today so the nurses were suddenly left to sort things out. After phoning a local rescue who might know of somebody and getting no response, it was now getting to the point where the nurses/cares were panicking about the weekend, so the cat is here, in our 'spare' bedroom. We said we can keep her until Thursday, Kizzy, a rabbit, is booked in to be spayed on Friday and I want her in the house, where she is warm and we can easily keep an eye on her. I just hope nothing else happens, honestly, you just never know what to expect do you. I'm knackered again and poor Mike is of out to do the mucking out so we can get the animals in early before the fireworks start!
It got me thinking though, are there no facilities for these situations because they must occur fairly regularly, does anybody know?
Started to nod off, when to phone rang, and it was a lady who took one of our foster dogs, she's a mental health nurse. One of their patients had gone into hospital on Tuesday and his social worker was supposed to organise care for the dog and cat, dog was no problem as he had his vaccinations, and he is now in kennels until the owner gets out. Did we know of anybody who would take in a cat with no vaccinations. Social worker is off sick today so the nurses were suddenly left to sort things out. After phoning a local rescue who might know of somebody and getting no response, it was now getting to the point where the nurses/cares were panicking about the weekend, so the cat is here, in our 'spare' bedroom. We said we can keep her until Thursday, Kizzy, a rabbit, is booked in to be spayed on Friday and I want her in the house, where she is warm and we can easily keep an eye on her. I just hope nothing else happens, honestly, you just never know what to expect do you. I'm knackered again and poor Mike is of out to do the mucking out so we can get the animals in early before the fireworks start!
It got me thinking though, are there no facilities for these situations because they must occur fairly regularly, does anybody know?