The last Ark told of the death of Indie. At the time, we thought this as due to his condition, the culmination of a lifetime struggle against coryza, together with the trauma of his op. Since then, we have had two other cats go down with the same symptoms, refusing to eat and an increasing lassitude. On Tuesday, we took Storm and Hero to the vet at Brioux, as the local surgery at Chef had no appointments free. We suspected an infectious epidemic, but the vets checked for poisoning, and found both cats had a substance in their blood. She suspected rat poison and administered an antidote, together with rehydration. The cats were kept in until this morning, when the vet agreed we could collect them as they were much better and showing interest in food again. This afternoon, we installed them in the lounge, tempting them with various treats and I a pleased to report they are showing progress. We checked for poisons in all the out-buildings without success. The vet suggested the victims may have eaten a poisoned rat and I did in fact find a huge rat in the cour, dead with a wound in it's throat.
We'll keep you posted on their progress.
To change the subject, our toilet stopped flushing a couple of days ago, and we asked Ian,our neighbour to check it for us. He bought a new syphon for us but had severe problems fitting it. Our loo is a bit of an antique imported from Britain and the replacement wouldn't fit. Ian advised replacing the whole WC so we're going to Niort tomorrow to buy a unit. In the meantime, its being flushed by buckets of water! My DIY wood suround will have to go, unfortunately.
It's been a problematical few days for the Ark and its crew, but thing can only get better,I hope...bye for now
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