Well, the icky tummy drama is continuing, the third visit to the vets resulted in yet another antibiotic injection and a request for a 'poo' sample which Neo dutifully produced yesterday and I left for them this morning, fingers crossed we should have the results by the end of the week.

Even though his 'stools' are not normal Neo is in fact perfectly ok, on the outside at least. He never appears to be in pain, has a good appetite although the bland diet of chicken, pasta and rice is not really too appealing, and when awake causes complete havoc! the sounds of 'No, get off, down, don't eat that, leave the cat alone etc are constant in our house now!

The mouthing and chewing are improving, as in hes doing less of it, hes starting to understand that he has his own chew toys and the sofa and table legs are not included, he is very partial to the shoes though and thats going to take a bit more work I think. The mouthing is getting more controllable as he quits a lot quicker and on the occasions he nips a bit hard as long as you yell loud enough he stops and looks guilty.

We've been out in the garden this morning as its a lovely sunny day and not too cold, I got a Grey Rose that needed moving so got started on that with some help from Neo, he thought it was great fun and even provided some digging power for a few mins before getting bored and wondering off to cause mischief elsewhere. He has a couple of favourite garden toys which include a plastic flower pot and a piece of fleece nicely covered in mud!

It got to the stage where I needed him out of the way so off to the kitchen he had to go. We've got two pet gates, one from the kitchen to the utility room where the cat has his food and one from the kitchen to the rest of the house, both gates have a cat flap. Hubby reported the other day that Neo has finally worked out how the cat flap operates, only from the kitchen to the rest of the house, for some reason hes not attempted the one to the utility room, probably too scared of the punishment the cat might deal out if he ventures near his food! I left him in the kitchen this morning while I popped down to the vets, completely forgot about the cat flap and on my return was met at the front door!!
This time though I got the better of him and locked the cat flaps!

Training is coming on well, he sits on cue almost every time hes asked so we're now learning 'down' which is taking a bit more time but hes getting there, he sits and waits for each portion of his food, a majority of the time without being asked and doesn't approach the bowl until told to, we can also do anything with him while hes eating and he doesn't bat an eyelid. We've started with lead training today, just a few mins at a time, hes not overly keen on it but can be persuaded with a supply of cooked chicken. Hes due for his second jab at the end of the week, (depending on lab results!) so thought I'd better start getting him used to the lead before the big day when he can go out of the front door on his own four feet!!