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The lake (or lack of) is an interesting, near lunar, site with the bare trunks of long submerged trees still standing in the bottom of the valley. There is also the remains of a number of buildings within a small hamlet that was also flooded although this was in another part of the lake and we didn\u2019t get to see it on our trip<\/p>\n
Rather than take the bus we drove ourselves so we could leave and head to Rennes for a rather important collection \u2013 Garratt.<\/p>\n
The first time we had seen the litter they were exactly 2 weeks old so not many of them had their eyes open. We selected Garratt principally on the basis of, even at 2 weeks, he was noticeably larger than his siblings but that he also had much more colour and pattern on him. When we picked him up he was still larger than his brothers and sisters and had kept his colour. Having been offered dinner we didn\u2019t leave for home until 10.30. Garratt was understandably anxious leaving home for the first and last time but travelled well \u2013 at least on the motorway! Within 5 minutes of turning onto the country roads we saw all of the contents of Garratt\u2019s stomach as he was very car sick.<\/p>\n
The advantage of arriving home at 1 am was that Garratt was exhausted and didn\u2019t complain when we put him in his new bed as he went straight to sleep.<\/p>\n
That night, and last night, he has been such a well behaved pup without crying overnight and without wetting his cage during the night. In fact he has been so well behaved we are a little nervous for when he starts misbehaving! We are at the end of day 3 and have set up a routine for his day which seems to be working and based around his 4 meals, lots of play time and even more sleep. It has also extended our own day by a few hours which may come in handy over the next 3 weeks when we catch up in Granary as we haven\u2019t achieved much in the last 48 hours!<\/p>\n When we thought that we couldn\u2019t get any busier we were \u2018gifted\u2019 a kitten. Perfect! We had seen the cat before when we discovered 2 tiny kittens in a box of shredded paper in our woodshed. Both were pure black exactly as our neighbour\u2019s cat which Dave had seen trying to sneak into the wood shed frequently so we made the assumption they were her litter. Having spoken with him, they were. The mother had had 4 kittens in the house and, for whatever reason, left 2 others in our wood shed.<\/p>\n Our neighbour took the 2 kittens back to their siblings for the mother to raise although at the time Dave and I thought that he was planning a more final solution for them. Thankfully, that wasn\u2019t his intention, less thankfully he couldn\u2019t find a home for all of them and so asked us to take one.\u00a0\u00a0 While both Dave and I would both consider ourselves \u2018dog\u2019 people in life\u2019s dog \/ cat divide, we had always hoped that a feral cat may adopt us and become our mouse control but this seemed like the perfect solution as we will settle her into one of the outbuildings and let her act as our pest control.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n