I have had a bit of a scare as my big fella Vinnie was a bit under the weather whilst I had my day off on Friday.

Saturday he seemed lazy and there was something that I just could not put my finger on about him and the way he was acting. Sunday we went out for the day and when we got home, I knew something was not right as he was just not his usual grumpy self and just could not bare to be parted from me!

All was revealed on Monday at a visit to the vets as he had dug about 30 holes round the garden on Sunday and all of them were empty.

Turns out that my big fella had a serious urinary infection and if I had of left him, he may well have died.

The vet thinks that we caught it early so the big fella is on a restricted diet, a tablet every morning and lots of water for the next fortnight. He will then be tested again and hopefully he will be all clear.

He is not happy as he really is not keen on the special food that he has to eat, but the vet did say that I could put one or two tablespoons of cod in with it to encourage him to eat.

I am pleased to report that he is improving greatly and played for a short time last night, and he actually went out on the prowl for a couple of hours early this morning.

So, please enjoy these 2 photo’s that I took of him with my new toy! The first was taken after he had been to the vets on Monday for all his tests and the second was him catching some rays before I went to work this morning.