It has been – for once – a quiet week here at the clinic. With lots of assistant volunteers and only one vet to keep them all busy, we have started quite a few new projects such as building and fundraising. With six newbies arriving on the weekend, we have a few big days of training and teaching coming up so it’s a good week to be less busy.

We also had a lot of interest, and got our name out and about really well with two cruise ships docking in Raro on the same day this week! Gregg and Marg had fun chatting to all the keen tourists who loved Rarotonga and were really impressed by our work.

Our generously donated solar panels were put in this week also; the $10,000 donation by Mary Smith to make it possible, with the rest of the value kindly being absorbed by Solar Bob, the panels act to both help the environment and hugely reduce our monthly electricity bill, ensuring more of our resources can go directly to the animals.
We are all crossing fingers and toes for our lovely wee black kittens Bagheera and Baloo, who don’t seem to be thriving this week which is tragic since they are so adorable and, when they first came in, were literally the stockiest, healthiest two week old kittens we’d ever seen. Unfortunately, no amount of care or milk replacer is as good as their mum, so we all have to watch anxiously as they grow.

In other news, since karaoke has become a weekly outing the last few months, Gregg tried out for The ‘H’ Factor (The ‘X’ Factor at a local pub called Heidis) and his audition was amazing. Despite all the non-working team cheering him on, he unfortunately didn’t make it through, he made EHF super proud.

Looks like more karaoke practice is in store!