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PET TALK with ANTHONY BOWYER


Eggs-actly


The brief seasonal appearance of chocolate Easter eggs and their rapid disappearance from supermarket shelves put me in mind of Freda, our own family tortoise. If anyone tells me that tortoises don’t have feelings then I refer them to the case of Freda!


Every year Freda emerged from hibernation as the daffodils flowered (sometimes it was the crocus – an obvious bulb confusion) and after a warm bath or two she assumed the usual mantle of bosompal to anyone who cared to venture into our garden. She would run the entire length of the lawn to greet our dog, cats or rabbit, and would often attempt to park herself on the feet of anyone that stopped to admire the borders.


Freda was an extrovert.


One year, however, she became a recluse, hiding behind the Rosemary bush and refus- ing to partake of any of her usual favourite foods. An x-ray of her abdomen soon re- vealed the cause – seven perfectly spherical eggs, each as large as a ten pence piece.


Freda wasn’t able to lay the eggs which had become stuck inside her and this would result in her death if we couldn’t get them out. Fortunately injections of a drug resulted in all seven being laid, and Freda rapidly returned to her normal happy self.


Unlike the supermarkets she did not restock her shelves with eggs the following year!


Anthony Bowyer and Tracy Backhouse


Corinium Veterinary Clinic, Cirencester


01285 652008 Anthony and Tracy


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