Expensive Roast Dinner

Who would ever have thought that a marinated beef rolled roast dinner could cost $1400.00?

I certainly didn't, but it did.

But no, it wasn't really the roast that cost so much; more it is the price we have had to pay for our own laziness.

See we had a yummy roast dinner and feeling all full and content none of us felt like doing the dishes, so we didn't.

The biggest problem of all is that someone didn't clean the scraps off their plate. Qetesh found them delicious - including the string that had been left on the plate.

A few days later she deposited some of it (orally) on the carpeted stairs (why is it that in a house of almost entirely hardwood floors she always manages to be ill on the carpet or rug? - one of life's little mysteries I guess) . Four days later I realised something was very wrong - she wasn't eating.

Long story short, there was still some roast string inside of her and it caused some fairly serious damage. She is now without some of her intestine but one week after her week in the hospital she has become playful again and is back to her old self - except for the shaved bits on her neck and leg and a *very* bare belly.

Back to the vet this week coming to have her stitches removed and see if she is allowed to start eating hard foods again.

Moral of the story - if you're not going to do the dishes at least scrape the plates clean!