Well my Dylan passed away during the night. He had been ill for a while and drugs were having no effect, his brother was taken the same way when he was 9 months so at least Dylan lived to 18 mths. Truffles is looking older by the day but besides from looking older he seems fine healthwise. I am quite lucky that I am adopting 2 of Beckys boys as origonally I was getting 3 from Furryfriends but when everything happened with max I had to pull out. Now although Max is still having problems we are alot more settled than we were, he is no longer living in the bottom of the FN and we have got into a routine now, so we are alot more organised for 2 new arrivals. Anyway I got onto the subject of the babies as now that Dylan has passed that means Rodie only has Truffles as a friend so when Truffles passes Rodie would be left alone with the 2 bullys, so it is good that we are now more settled for getting more. I am thinking about keeping those 2 bullys alone as with Truffles getting older he is less able to stick up for Rodie like he used to and this morning Rodie is sporting a small gash on his eye, one on his man bits and one on his shoulder, they are small, only a few milimetres but still it's not nice for hi. i am going to keep an eye on them all and possibly split the 2 bullys as they get along great with each other.

Max is still not better, his abscesses have not burst and they do not look likely too, the antibiotics have done nothing, I am meant to take him back 2 weeks last tuesday but i will bring that forward a week and will take him on Tuesday. The antibiotics are not doing him much good as he has started pooing a clear sticky liquid, like super glue consistency, i called the vets and they say it is from an inflamed gut caused by the antibiotics. So I wil not be happy if I get sent away again to carry on with the antibiotics as he has been on them 3 weeks and it has done bugger all, so whats the point in continuing with just that?? 

My place of work is moving buildings tomorrow. It is only an extra 4 miles away but it is 4 miles in the wrong direction. It used to be central Brighton and was in the main hub for all transport. Now it will take 2 buses to get there so I will have to drive, but it is a residential area with ALOT of resticted parking so finding somewhere to park will be a huge hassel, there are no public carparks nearby either. They have parking underneath but only a set amount which is for carsharers only, however as everyone in my area works shifts we cannot carshare.
I already have to leave at 7.30 to get to work for 9 due to traffic (normlly takes 10 mins outside rush hour!!) But now I will need to leave at around 7, and it will take me alot longer to get home so in all I will lose around an extra 1hr 30 of my day on top of the 2hrs 30 I already spend travelling each day, I wouldn't mind if the money was great or I enjoyed my job. But the money is good but not great and although I sort f enjoy my job I do not like it and do not think it's worth the extra journey. I did manage to change my hours so I will be doing longer hours on a saturday (9-4 instead of 9-2) and doing half hour lunches during the week so I will be working in effect 4 and a half days finishing at 2.30 on a friday. So I miss the traffic on the Saturday, and miss the traffic home on a Friday and have a day off during the week.

Well after discovering that he hates my girls with a passion, I have been having a think about Murdoch. At Aimlessdesires he hated boys but was ok with girls, I thought since he hates my girls I might try with with a laid back boy (bad idea I hear you thinking) So I choose Truffles to be the victim of choice, he was my first rat from this group and has endured 5 adult buck to buck intros and was ok in all of them, being the only one to choose to lay down and sleep with the newbie on 4 of those first intros.
I get a carrier ready have my tea towels to hand and plonk them in. There was sniffing, bog brushing, some sort of 'shaking that ass' type of dance from Murdoch, boxing and a couple of fights. Mostly Truffles was just staring at him thinking 'what the hell are you doing, when you are quite finished I would like to lay down and sleep'
Result ended in a cut leg on Truffles which was only small and as I was watching with a close beady eye at all times and still didn't see it happen I can only assume it must have caught a claw or tooth in a small scuffle. The end result was that he reacted to Truffles MUCH better than the girls, he was alot less aggressive and despite the cut leg they were in there for 10-15 mins and didn't kill each other. At the start of intros he had a sniff and did some fluffed up bum shoving but then sat and had a wash twice, was nosing around the carrier and trying to see what was outside the carrier which he never did with the girls.
I think I will try him with Truffles again for 5 mins this time, then 10 mins and so on.