The puppies are all doing fine, although sixteen is quite a handful, and Sandy seems to think she has every right to visit Toffee's puppies, but if Toffee comes anywhere near hers, she growls and poor Toff sinks down submissively.

Sandy's puppies have their eyes open now, and are starting to wobble around the basket. Some of them can sort of stand and they're all scrabbling around and climbing out of the basket - then they start up a chorus of appalled squeaking when they can't find their mother...

I took Sandy's outside earlier and tried to take some photos of them, but since we got back at five the light was already beginning to go, so I had to use a slowish shutter speed...normally 80-200 isn't that slow, but at the rate they were moving... *sigh*

Oh, and this morning, at school, I was just waiting with my classmates outside of the music room, when I saw this primary school girl looking at something on the (really small) patch of grass just outside it. I went over, and there was a bird! A little fledgling! I picked it up and it was pretty tame, all things considered. It flapped its wings a bit, but it couldn't fly properly. Then a teacher who I didn't know (seen her wandering around, but didn't know her name, I mean) asked me what I had, and I explained that it was a fledgling, couldn't fly, etc.

I know, I know, normally you leave the bird. But, come on! This school has over 600 pupils and in about an hour they were all going to swarm past there to lunch. Not to mention the minimum-three cats and countless kites.

The teacher was surprisingly nice (most people who see me with an animal tell me to "put it back") and offered to get a box and look after the bird until I had finished lessons that day. So I agreed, and came back at lunch time to check on it. It had eaten some bread and looked fine. I had thought it was probably a pigeon, and looked it up, and I was right. Well, kind of, anyway; a dove, and if I'm correct, a mourning dove.

I guess I'll be keeping it until it can fly properly. It's so cute! It sat on my shoulder earlier. I'll post some photos tomorrow or Saturday if possible :3 oh, no, not tomorrow - although we finish early normally, we have to go to the dentist and then there's a "balle des collegiens" at school which we're going to. So Saturday, then.