Call the Midwife reigns supreme
to register it with their lost animal service as it may fit the description of a missing pet.
Register a found cat on Trade Me. It’s free and we have seen one cat returned recently as a result.
It would be a terrible thing if someone’s cat was classed as a stray and was rehomed or worse, so it is very important to do everything possible to find the owner.
A simple solution is to microchip your cat (as well as your dog). I just don’t understand why all cats aren’t done – simple, cheap (one-off cost for a lifetime) and so effective.
If you want to care for a stray cat: Get us to check it out. There are several important reasons for this:
Stray cats are more prone to some diseases, including cat flu, fleas, and viral diseases such as FIV (the cat equivalent of HIV).
The cat may have already been neutered. Again, recently a well-meaning person adopted what they thought to be a stray cat and asked a vet to spey her, only to find that she had already been done.
But most importantly, microchipping your own cat is such a small price for getting your cat home again if they do go missing. We have reunited two stray cats with their owners recently. Microchipping takes five minutes, including the paper work, and is more important for cats as they don’t wear registration tags.
Anderson’s Veterinary Hospitals in Palmerston North, phone 357 9993 for Pitama Rd or 356 9993 for Hokowhitu, open till 7pm Monday to Friday and open Saturday and Sunday.
Imagine someone approaching an Auckland production company with an idea for a TV series about nuns and nurses in working class Wellington 60 years ago.
They’d be shown the door, tripping over a Westside extra as they left.
Fortunately, the idea captured the attention of a BBC executive who fitted it in between soaps, scandal, slaughter and sex.
Call the Midwife (TV One, Wednesdays) is now into its fifth series, with strong story lines that reflect medical science in the early 1960s and the awakening lifestyle revolution for young people.
Nurse Trixie Franklin joins a Keep Fit class where she increases her bra size and reduces her waist measurement. It was more than a storm in a C cup for her as it gives her a passion that helps overcome her drinking problem.
Trixie graduates so quickly that she becomes an instructor before you can bend over twice. She’s equally plastic and pretentious as she browbeats the Queen’s English but also contrite and caring when she discovers a member of her class, Olive, has a prolapse of her ‘‘down belows’’.
Trixie refers Olive to Dr Turner who assures her that surgeons are very capable of medical repairs on the national health.
However, the new series focuses more on a father’s rejection of a thalidomide daughter and the mother’s love for the child. ‘‘You’re mine and I’m not bailing out on you,’’ she tells baby Susan.
The episode was profoundly moving and, while several of the original cast members have left, Trixie, Patsy and the Brides of Christ remain to tell an important story in, what is now, an iconic decade.
It’s a decade of nurses on bikes, chocolate eclairs, Easter bonnet parades, fagging around the bedside and giving up luxuries for lent. However, Trixie and her Keep Fit team give up lent for luxuries.
From Darkness (Soho Sundays) is a complex but rewarding series. After years away from the Greater Manchester Police, Clare Church is drawn back from a remote Scottish island when the bones of three prostitutes are discovered.
She was part of a team that never solved the case 13 years earlier and now she’s back to identify the killer. Then a copycat murder takes place and Clare finds herself being drawn to DCI Hind, who she played bouncy castles with all those years earlier.
There are too many subplots – including the ones the girls were found in – to explain but all are inter-connected and add to the tension of this grim but absorbing series. I hope the flashbacks at the start of tomorrow’s episode give sufficient understanding to new viewers.
I’m sure TV One’s Sunday would be first to maximise the concerns of people if a dangerous criminal or child molester was relocated to their community, but Janet Mcintyre was less than balanced when telling the story of Ashley Peacock, a difficult and violent mental health patient.
While the extent of his isolation at Porirua Mental Hospital should be examined, the ‘‘special solution’’ for him of living in a rural area with a couple of animals and round-the-clock policing seemed unacceptable.
Instead I enjoyed the interview with Matt Damon (TV One, Sunday) who said, if Donald Trump became president, he hoped some property in Australia could be saved for him and his family. I’d prefer him to fly in to Auckland and forget to turn right.
In Hatch, Match and Dispatch (TV One, Wednesday) Norrie, who describes himself or herself as ‘‘sex, non-specific’’, wanted to marry Sam in a New South Wales registry office. But the law, in this fascinating new series, can only marry one of each. Norrie was refused.
The best solution for him or her is to continue their medical transition and become an earthworm, which has both male and female sexual organs. He then he can marry himself.