Oh heavens , I can laugh now but ............. ! Nelly was really unsettled , seemed to want food but wouldn't eat . I had some rice left from our tea , so offered her some and she gobbled it all up . She seemed to settle a little after this , but then at some unearthly hour , she asked to go out, I went with her with a torch , normally she would be distracted by a torch but she seemed to be in trouble passing something which eventually ejected from her bottom . I scooped it up in some kitchen roll ( the things we do eh ?) and nearly died when I saw what looked like her bowel lining . I actually screamed , whilst she decided that 4a.m was a good time for hedgehog patrol , tears rolling down my face I got her in and sat deliberating about calling the emergency Vet , when the penny dropped . The night before , I had made a casserole and saved all the meat trimmings for Nelly , she usually has minced beef , so I thought this would be a treat , cut into little chunks . I had saved the bloody clotted mess for the Vet to see , and on a more close inspection , it was not part of her innards , just meat , lots of undigested meat . Thank heavens I didn't get a call out , what a total prat I would have felt !
Normal service has been resumed , walk executed , breakfast of scrambled egg eaten , Phew ! xxx
