The Goblin Diaries (previously Quitting Smoking)

If I ever have to give him oral antibiotics I can already tell you, that will be an instant betrayal lol.
 
Bann has been an absolute star over being medicated. If I get the metacam drawn and the lid off the drops tube, I can get him, give him eyedrops, fight over the syringe, and be done in a few minutes. I don't know if it's because of the metacam chaser (but that probably helps) but this morning I managed to drop just one drop direct to his eyeball...and then spent some amount of time second guessing whether I'd actually done it, lol.

I don't think he can see properly out of it, unfortunately. I might be wrong, he might just be more wary of Hands because he's being medicated but I'm not sure that's all it is. 🤞 though
 
Fingers crossed he will regain his sight when the eye heals.
If the drops are anything like the Viscotears I use I can't see very well for a while after using them, they put a film over the eye.
 
The eye's clearer but he's still producing a lot of the cleaning fluid throughout the day. It's not hanging about and gumming up like it was, but it's still over producing. The isathal leaves a bit of a film too.

And he's still shoving his entire head under the hay because there's apparently tasty stuff under there 🤨 it's clearly not bothering him that much 🤷‍♂️
 
The goblins are used to a pepper breakfast. I apparently had a bit too much to drink last night (woe is me) and they got some lettuce first. Cam doesn't like lettuce breakfast, I'm assuming because pepper breakfast is more substantial, so I got yelled at precisely an hour after the lettuce feed. I actually wondered if it was Bann having injured himself again til I poked my head through the doorway and Cam was bouncing.

So I get their peppers.
Bann goes to take his, freaks out, backs off.
Cam gets his and backs into the bed he's already in.
Bann rethinks, gets his pepper, and runs into the other doorway of that same bed.
Cue scuffles.
Bann exits the bed via the same doorway as before, minus his pepper.

On the bright (hah) side, I might be feeling rough, but Bann's been very bright all morning.
 
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You can't really tell, but Cam managed to get himself covered in hay dust. And it might sound awful that I'm laughing at this but I got Bann into the carrier with some "I'm being murdered" screams for my trouble and I closed over the carrier door to hear a normal wheek behind me. I turned round and Cam had moved himself into the middle of the cage and was chatting to me like "haha you're not gonna pick me up, right?" and then I got a momentary pause before I saw the lightbulb go off above his head, ong with an "oh ¿>&!" before he dived for cover. It was slightly less fun having to almost turn the bed inside out to get him out of it, though.
 
Wriggly piggies ….that looks really good Lorcan …..two very lucky piggies ❤️❤️
 
It's only tunnels so far. Once the beds have dried I'll have those in too. I'm just trying to work out how I'll arrange the living room now there's an extra, massive tent on the floor lol.
 
Cam may have worked out what me going into the kitchen and the fridge door sounds mean, or maybe it was because I came downstairs, or...maybe he was just hungry. Any and all ate possibilities.

Bann hasn't twigged to any of these things. Sigh. I still love you, lad.

I was going to be doing jigsaws downstairs and vaping in the kitchen - the kitchen doors take some fighting but they do close, I'm not willing vape in the same open room they're in - because it's sweltering upstairs too but the coffee table isn't suitable. It's too low compared to the sofa and the armchair. The table would work but I need it for the jigsaws because I can't trust some of my visitors not to do something stupid and send them flying off the coffee table. Jigsaws upstairs it is, with regular cooling off trips! Oh and some Banana Boat aloe vera gel that gets stored on the fridge. It's great for cooling off.

Also I forgot to get a can when I went downstairs. I need a mini fridge upstairs lol.
 
Well, Cam likes to get absolutely frantic when I come down the stairs and he's allegedly hungry. My worries about the cold (it didn't drop below 18.7° in the end, which was great) aside, I wish I could keep them downstairs full time. I've always found it more beneficial to them to be around the people in the house and not just me, and them being in my bedroom means they get nothing by way of visitors. Plus it's easier to apologise for Cam's screaming when the adjacent wall is a kitchen and not a baby's bedroom, lol.
 
It's great that the temperature stayed up. Maybe once the boiler is sorted they will be able to be downstairs permanently. I love mine being downstairs.
 
I kept Comet and Blitzen in my living room unless it got too warm, and my bedroom was on the other side of the building and easier to keep cool. They did surprise people because we'd be trying to have a serious conversation and they'd be trying to hump each other, falling off, chasing each other, all with the sort of happy shrieks that sound worrying if you've not seen that sort of behaviour lol. They're not getting handled all the time but they're getting used to more people and different people, which is useful if something happens to me.

I really don't know how my support staff are going to feel about half my living room going missing lol but the goblins are better than they are anyway :whistle:
 
Update - crisis somewhat averted. I buy lots of pepper since the goblins can't have regular lettuce and it turns out at least one pack was in stock. It'll not last long but it'll do in a pinch.

I did buy one salad bag they subbed for something else, which contains lettuce I don't recognise the name of...but it isn't called iceberg and it doesn't look like iceberg. I'm sure they won't mind there's no butterhead :whistle:
 
Dear Goblins,
Your Slave thinks you won't mind if there's no butterhead! That's an absolutely appalling attitude, especially after all the effort you put in to training him and the fact that it's the bestest, yummiest thing EVER that nothing can replace (except for lollo rosso, romaine and little gem...)
Our stupid slaves left us for a whole week. We got more veggies and forage than usual and all our different herbs at the same time but that's not the point.
You need to give him dirty looks and not come for hand feeding. Tessy from GPFANS would be proud as Dignified Sir George even gave some nips after telling off the slaves.
Yours in unity,
The Beastie Boys,
Dignified Sir George and Mischievous Master Boris
 
Dear The Beastie Boys,

The Human knows we love butterhead, but he's had to stop buying a whole...head? of butterhead because it upsets our tummies. We sometimes get a salad bag that has butterhead in it instead but he says Tesco wouldn't deliver it this week. It turns out what we got is crispita and apollo which apparently tastes delicious and he's very grateful we don't mind the switch. He hopes Tesco don't make a habit of it, though.

Yours (still slightly confused),
The Goblins
 
I nark about Bsnn being all looks and no brains but at least he isn't doing what Cam is - biting at food, either getting the zip in the same mouthful or missing the food for the zip entirely, and ending up with the zip clamped between his jaws trying to pull his food towards him. I've told him if he tears the zip he's paying for the tent repair but he's a goblin, he doesn't care 🤷‍♂️

Also Bann's addicted to dandelion leaves. And cucumber. And pepper, and lettuce, and parsley, and, well, food. But specifically dandelion leaves. My support worker yesterday asked if I hadn't put too much hay into the cage at once and Bann was the only one eating it, and I said to give him an hour. He did me proud :)) 45 minutes to scoff the lot.

Also there's a really half-arsed storm going round. Great loud rumbles somewhat nearby, coming and going, and that's it. No lighting, no real rain, no real storm clouds even. I feel cheated.
 
"The Perils of Living With a Goblin" - a short description of life with a delinquent.

Cam has soft poops again. Too soft. His appetite is unwavering and everything else is as it should be so I'm not worried. They can cope with a bit of pepper for breakfast and hay for the rest of the day, it won't kill them. Snort. Like that's what Cam cares about!

Bann hasn't noticed anything yet, which will surprise absolutely nobody. Cam, however, Cam knows and he is incredibly unimpressed by the change in diet. He screams the first chance he has any idea I'm nearby. He screams harder when I'm downstairs. He stands next to the zip panel when he knows I'm passing by - it's the only zip panel I use for feeding him.

If not for the fact I've seen the poops, you couldn't tell anything's even the matter. :flag:

(the fact that Bann's not worked anything out is hilarious though, even taking into account that he's Bann lmao)
 
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It's on me, honestly, I overdid it with the salad and salad will always set him off, and he loves salad so he's hardly going to refuse to eat it. I gave him some dried dandelion earlier and first he almost leapt through the unzipped panel because "food!" and then, when he realised it was only dandelion and I was trying to zip the panel back up, he reacted much as you'd expect him to, trying to shove his nose back outside again.

I don't know who's worse at this point, me or him 🤨
 
The diet is going well.

I took a mini baby pepper and sliced it in half. On trying to unzip the flap they kept falling over trying to burst through it, then once it was over they both fell forward so their entire upper half was outside the tent which collapsed the tent part they were standing on, and then both headbutted my hands trying to snaffle their pepper.

They're worryingly coordinated when they're hangry.
 
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