Full Metal Wheelbarrow

Salem has been to the vet who declared his foot "very smelly" and gave him two injections and a box of pillses intended to make it not smelly any more. I haven't opened them yet, so I don't know if they're Little Pink Pills or not.

I start giving him the pills this evening, and hopefully he'll co-operate :)

Sixty quid for that little lot. It's a good job we love him, isn't it? :)

It looks as if tomorrow will have to encompass a trip to the vet for Salem - he seems to have hurt his right back paw.  He's reluctant to put weight on it and it feels warm and a bit swollen. We've soaked it in warm salty water today (not something he was keen on, but no injuries resulted) which I hope will make it less painful for him, but I suspect it's time to break out the antibionics again, poor lad.

Took Spot (Senior Cat of the Household) to the vet today for his jabs and to have a general checkover since he seems to have lost weight and his coat's a bit scraggly lately.

The vet says a couple of his teeth need to come out because they're broken off and he may have arthritic joints as well, poor old chap. So the teeth are coming out this afternoon and I have to go and collect him between 5 and 6.

Apparently the only way to tell if he has arthritis is to give him painkillers and see if he improves, so that's what's going to happen there, and the vet wants me to change his food as well.

It's going to cost about £150 (ouch) but hopefully it'll do him good and make him feel much more his old self.