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Chai on My Laptop

Category: Life of a Vet | Date: Jun 26 2007 | By: admin

I have spilt a cup full of chai (milk tea) on my laptop whilst charging and electrocuted it as a result.  The laptop is completely dead and I am in a process of trying to recover my lost documents, photos, emails, etc. from the hard disk.  Until I get a new laptop, my blog entry is now only possible when I come up to
Nairobi… 

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House in Mara

Category: Life of a Vet | Date: Jun 26 2007 | By: admin

For the last one month, I have been repairing an old house in Maasai land.  Initially, the wall, floor and ceiling were completely eaten up by termites and needed complete repair.  Termites are gone, but the entire house was infested by flea, bed-bugs and lice!  I sprayed the entire house after house repair, but some population is definitely alive in this house since I am constantly getting some kind of insect bites…  The water system depends on rain water harvesting, but there is no water left in the tank now.  Most importantly I am in a process of building a fence around the house to keep my dogs away from livestock nearby.  I hear in July, lots of elephants will move from the reserve to forest next to my house.  I heard that chilli pepper works 100% as elephant deterrent so I am planning to elephant proof my fence using chilli.

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Delay in Operation

Category: Dogs | Date: Jun 19 2007 | By: admin

We are currently experiencing a slight delay in the commencement of the vaccination campaign. I am visiting Nairobi to attend a meeting with officials from the Veterinary Department. Once again, thank you everyone who have donated for this campaign and I apologize for the unexpected delay.

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