Tuesday, September 01, 2009

ON THE SICK LIST

Most people only have one or two animals with whom they interact. We have several hundred (even without counting all the baby gourami in the pub). The upside to this is that we have more births than most people, but the downside is that we have more illness and death. We have a couple of animals on the sicklist at the moment:

One of the Asian bitterlings has `pop eye disease`. This is treatable, and most fish eventually recover. We have treated the tank with fish tonic, and are awaiting further developments.

Rufus the Chinese crested mynah is also quite poorly. He has been a bit off colour for a few days, but now needs to go to the vet. I will keep you informed....

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