Casper found

Unfortunately it wasn't good news. Casper was found dead Thursday night. He'd been missing nearly a week and, despite many posters and phone calls being made there was no sign. On Sunday Paul had searched the attic but he wasn't there, on Thursday he looked again and he was there and dead. We have no idea what happened but suspect he was bitten by something. It was horrible. Tallulah ran around screaming and crying and Nakita just kept talking about him and crying. Paul (bless him, he hates dead animals more than live ones !) buried him and on Friday the girls and I went to the garden centre and bought an hibiscus to plant on the top. It's not really the right position for it, but, fingers crossed, it will survive. I did prime Paul that I would be wanting another cat, it's the only way I can deal with the death of a cat, so today we went to the Animal Protection Society fete and looked at all their cats in the shelter.

I am completely shocked at the attitude most people have towards cats here. In the whole of WA there are only 2 shelters that take in cats and a few other foster carers - so many healthy cats must be put to sleep here it's heart breaking. Tomorrow I am off to the other cat shelter and will contact some carers. Whilst it's not always easy to introduce a new cat to an existing one, we have the added disadvantage of having to introduce it to a beagle who thinks it is a cat (allbeit a large, heavy one !!) and tries to jump out on them to play ! Tallulah saw a cat today that she liked, but which wasn't suitable, and got quite upset when I said no so I think I'll do this search on my own.

Whilst I was still looking for Casper, Mutley kept going to a palm tree out the back and staring up at the top. I couldn't work out what was going on so got a step ladder to look. I hadn't even made it to the top when two birds flew out and one flew straight, smack, into the glass pool fence. It was then a race as to who would get to it first - Mutley or me - I won !!!! I picked the tiny silvereye up, it was breathing heavily, eyes closed and feathers everywhere so I just held it in my cupped hands and gradually it opened its eyes and sorted its feathers out so I put on the wall and Nakita took care of it (whilst being bitten to death by the mossies) until it managed to fly away. The same thing happened last year with the study window......... I hope it wasn't the exact same bird !!

The girls have shocked me this week, no, they are still arguing, but they spent most of the week playing with lego !!! Even Tallulahs 12 year old friend spent Friday evening building houses !! It was fantastic watching them and I'm glad I kept it all. Let's hope they are still playing with it next year too ! Mind you, I quite fancied having a go myself !

Today, after the APS fete, we visited Serpentine Dam and Serpentine Falls. The dam was lovely - gorgeous scenery and a lovely walk (although there were lots of steep steps) and there looked a fantastic restaurant at the top - we peeked in but didn't buy anything but the food looked lovely. It did look pretty full but the stats in the restaurant stated it was only 37% full.

The Falls were fantastic too, it cost $10 per car and there were lots of free bbqs, wild roos and streams. The girls wanted to go into the water and stay all day but we, as usual, weren't prepared. So we plan to go back and spend a day there...this time with towels and sausages !!

10:01 - Sun 4 May 2008 - comments {2}