Hello, we are Derek and Lindsay and we live in Suffolk, England. Over the years we have managed to fill our home with a variety of animal friends, including bunnies, cats, gerbils, guinea pigs and far too many rats.
Lindsay launched this website in 2001 and back then it was solely dedicated to our pets. In February of 2009 we re-launched the site in the format you see now. As well as continuing to feature ongoing updates about our pets, we have added a selection of short stories.
08 February 2010 by Lindsay
Our much loved little girl, Sugar passed away quietly yesterday. Over the past week she had become gradually weaker and weaker, but still enjoying lots of baby food, until her appetite dropped off completely and she was struggling to walk. I moved her from the cage she shares with her sisters ...
20 January 2010 by Lindsay
Daisy’s lump had gotten to a size where it was beginning to cause her problems. It was affecting the mobility of her arm, if she jumped down off something she couldn’t bring her left arm forward and would land on her face or the lump itself. The lump itself was also starting to ...
20 January 2010 by Lindsay
When we got up last Friday we already knew it was going to be a bad day as we had made the horrible decision to have our sweet little girl Daisy put to sleep. Her appointment was at 2.30 that afternoon, so we weren’t in the best of moods, but when we went into our dining room, where our boys ...
10 January 2010 by Lindsay
Our sweet, and sometimes bossy, girl Sugar is beginning to slow down quite a bit and is a little unsteady on her feet. We are assuming it is old age, as she wasn’t a young girl when she joined our family over a year ago. It is both a bit sad to know she is getting old, but at the same ...
10 January 2010 by Lindsay
After the death of his brother, Custard, our other cat, Treacle had started coming upstairs more and of course Fawn was waiting for him. Fawn really loved spending time with Custard and had missed him terribly when he died, so it’s been great for Fawn to find a new feline friend. Treacle ...
03 January 2010 by Lindsay
I have been a bit remiss in updating about Berry since he first joined our family. It’s hard to believe he has been with us over two years now and, I’m pleased to say, is still going strong. Things have changed a lot in our relationship with Berry since we first got him. He is still ...
02 January 2010 by Lindsay
This is a very hard update to make, while Daisy is fine and healthy she has a lump and unfortunately because of its location we’ve decided not to have it removed. We first noticed a pea-sized lump on Daisy’s neck not long after Pearl died. It was hard enough finding a lump on ...
31 December 2009 by Lindsay
Since he joined our family Conker has been doing really well settling in, getting used to Derek and I and just learning what fun it is to come out and have a run-around. He’s a really lovely boy, though he did develop one naughty habit of nipping Derek’s feet while he was out ...
26 December 2009 by Lindsay
The story ‘First Snow‘ was inspired by Fern and her first encounter with snow, although the snowfall Fern experienced at the time was only a very light dusting and nothing at all like the snowfall that Fifi encountered in the story. All that changed this past week when Fern really did ...
22 December 2009 by Lindsay
Peach was very much a little live wire, always running around and bouncing, despite all the health problems that have plagued her most of her short life. Sadly in the space of two days Peach’s condition deteriorated and she passed away. It was such a shock, one day she was bouncing ...
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