The countdown begins...

If you've been reading the blog up until now (if you haven't the archive section is on the left :-)) then you'll know that our poor animals have been subjected to a holiday camp while our house is being renovated.

It wasn't an easy decision to let someone else look after them for us but we had to be practical and think of their welfare as well. Hopefully that time will be coming to an end sometime in the not so distant future so that we can introduce the cats to their new home and re-introduce the dogs to their huge toilet (toilet training is still an issue).

Given that the poor babies have been away from home and us for so much of the year, we've decided to employ the services of an Animal Aunt for the 3 weeks that we are in South Africa in December.

It's a fairly expensive decision but one that we both feel will benefit the animals (giving them more time to get used to their home) and us as I really struggle with the concept of them being put back into kennels.

Our dedicated 'Aunty' called to introduce herself today and she is truly lovely. I felt a lot more confident in our decision after speaking to her and it's a real load off my mind that my babies will be looked after in the manner that they are accustomed to.

The bonus is that there will be someone in the house the whole time that we are away which means that we don't have to worry about security either. The RO is a little worried about whether she'll be able to handle the high tech tv system, but I'm confident that he will be able to leave her very detailed instructions.

Only 61 days to go, aren't we lucky :-)

VP