The Jennings 3

Firstly, thanks to everyone for your thoughts on the dog debate. I think the sensible money seems to be on a miniature Schnauzer or a Lakeland (sorry Kay, Molly Brown doesn’t get a look in) though cousin Garry has just thrown a late curve ball with a Jack Russell – a good shout and now joint no.1 on the list. Until we get a fence sorted around the house I don’t think that we can go any further but when we do I’ll let you know whom our new addition is.

In the short term though we decided to get a couple of hamsters for Buster to play with (torment?). Trouble is NZ doesn’t allow hamsters to be imported so the choice was narrowed down to a mouse (1 yr life span) or a guinea pig (7 yrs) – the more disposable mouse obviously won. So, we now have two female mice, confusingly known as Mr Tickles and Albi. So far they seem good fun, easy to handle and play with and pretty much self sufficient other than a weekly clean out. We are in the middle of setting up an assault course al-la Copley and his hamster (think back to the 90’s craze for squirrel assault courses and you will get the idea). So far we have a ping-pong ball and an old toilet roll so some extra work is needed. I’ll keep you posted.

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