Let the blog see the rabbit...

I took Morphy for a walk this afternoon in Churchill Gardens. Part way down the path, he stopped dead and refused to move. I had no idea why.

When he did eventually start walking again, he was limping very badly, so I stopped and looked at his paw to find that it was bleeding.

I got him home, carrying him a lot of the way then had a look at his injury and found there was a small shard of glass stuck in one of the pads of his front right paw. I had a quick go at removing it with tweezers, but I had no way of getting a grip on it without making the wound bigger, so we called the vet's.

Luckily, they had space at the evening surgery and asked us to bring him straight in. Very quickly, one of the veterinary nurses had a look at him and a couple of minutes later, the vet asked us to bring him through to their operating table, where they had much better light.

Then, the nurse, my mum and I held Morphy down while the vet dug the piece of glass out with a hypodermic needle.

I was quite surprised how quiet Morphy was throughout the whole incident. He whimpered a bit as the vet got the glass out, but other than that didn't make a sound. Normally, he yelps loudly about any pain at all.