Finally, we're on our way. We've been in Anchorage since Sunday night. On Thursday, we're heading North & East to the Copper River for dipnetting for salmon. Then on Saturday, we enter Canada and head South. If all goes well, we'll be in Tucson by June 27th. The vet trip went well but crazy. Last week I wrote about Ike's eye, but it did not get better. The vet put him on antibiotic eye-drops because his eye is inflammed. Sometimes it's open and sometimes it's still kept closed. Ike's taken to nipping at us because he hates be held still for eye-drops. His ex-roommate, Birch, has lost two toes and his leg is swollen. The vet was concerned about an infection, so Birch is on oral antibiotics (I forgot what type). He hates the stuff and we are having difficulties administering it to Birch. Both Ike and Birch bit the vet, but all the other gerbils and the rats were very well behaved. Raven refused to come out of his cage and we had disassemble his cage in the vet's office. She (the vet) was laughing most of the time. She had gerbils back in college. Hopefully if the servers up tomorrow, I'll send you the website address to my travel information and pictures of the trip. I have set no mail on this list so respond personally if you wish to respond. Thanks! Deb Adams ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com
