Blog Post No 5. Keeping myself fit and healthy.

 I am back!

I took a short break from blogging.  

Keeping my foster staff busy and with my birthday celebrations lasting a few days I really didn't have the time to fit everything into my daily schedule.

Here are a few photos from my birthday.

I received lots of presents, my favourite was a new baby hedgehog to add to my large stuffed toy collection.  

I have a whole family of hedgehogs now. I know which one is the Mummy hedgehog because she has pink toes. 

I munched on lots of extra treats and I was also allowed a slightly larger portion of dinner that day. 😋😋

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Anyway as this post is meant to be all about how I keep myself fit and healthy I had better get on with telling you.

Firstly, appearance is of paramount importance. Having a daily brush makes me feel good and I do like receiving the attention. 

I regularly go to the groomers. That's a fun place to go to. 

I am always their only client.... well who would want a Spa day with strangers? 

I like my privacy.

The lovely ladies that,  try to drown me,   bath me are absolutely brilliant. 

I get into their bath and I am soaped all over and  gently massaged. 

It really is a lovely experience even though I may look like a drowned rat...

Until the hairdryer comes out, which floofs me up and then I metamorphosise into a sheep!

Then I receive a lovely brush

I just sit there and let them pamper me.

Fluffy me.

Clipping begins

Then it's time for my nails to be done.

All done.

Handsome me

I am always as good as gold. 

I do think the grooming ladies have a soft spot for me. 😍

The next part of keeping myself nice and trim is being careful with my food. 

I admit I could eat for England but with guidance from my staff I know I eat healthily and the correct amount of good quality food each day. 

I recently had my annual health check at my Vets.

That's another great place to go and meet people who adore me.

I always make sure I am first through their front door.

 Stepping tentatively onto the dreaded scales  I was very happy when my nice vet lady said my weight was perfect even after the extra birthday treats and large portion of birthday dinner I had munched the previous week.

I was declared to be a lovely shape and as fit as a fiddle. 

The nice vet even asked my staff to confirm my age as I was acting more like an 11 month old than an 11 year old!

That proves that taking good care of yourself really works. 

There will always be a spring in my paws.

Even when taking the greatest care of myself,  I can succumb to having periods when I am a little under the weather.

Unfortunately this happened to me last year when a horrid bacteria called Pseudomonas infected my right ear.

After weeks and weeks of trying to get the horrid bacteria  to go away with several courses of different antibiotics, ear drops 4 times a day and multiple visits to my vets I realised there was only one option left for me.

I couldn't live in discomfort indefinitely and keep taking all the pills, so last November  an appointment was made for me to have day surgery and have my right ear canal removed.

My operation was successful and it meant the infection was completely removed and I was free from having a permanent ear ache.

I am fully healed now and looking at me you would never know I ever had the operation.

As I no longer have my right ear canal I am totally deaf in my right ear. 

My left ear works well....

When I want it to.......😈

I can sometimes experience problems locating a sound and apparently do a wonderful impression of a baby owl turning its head round and round trying to locate where a sound is coming from.  

Please note when the word  DINNER is mentioned I have perfect hearing. 

Well that's it from me for today.

I'll be back.

Barney.