A papillon dog breeder in Bury St Edmunds needed some replacement slats for her vertical blinds in her conservatory. When I visited her house the papillons started making a terrible noise so she left me in the conservatory and went into the house to calm the dogs. After I had finished she ordered the new vertical blind slats and we agreed a date to fit the blinds.
The dogs started to bark again so I asked to see them. She led me to the the kitchen where the sight of so many small dogs reminded me of the film Gremlins.
Archive for the ‘Pets’ Category
Gremlins
Friday, September 4th, 2009Kittens
Tuesday, June 16th, 2009Visited a cat breeder in a village east of Bury St Edmunds to show her the roller blind colours in our catalogue for her conservatory. She wanted to change her vertical blinds for roller blinds because the cats enjoyed playing with the vertical blind weights and chains and had ruined them.
She kindly brought two newborn kittens from their mother to show me. They were inquisitive and very cute but I wasn’t allowed to touch them in case their mother rejected them.
We have an on line roller blind catalogue on our website www.baileysblinds.com (we dont sell cats but we know someone who does).
Sniffer Dogs
Friday, March 13th, 2009Baileys Blinds supply and install blinds in Haverhill in Suffolk.
One of Baileys Blinds customers in Haverhill look after two search dogs. One of them detects drugs while the other is trained to detect mobile phones.
Mobile phones are prized assets in jails and the prison authorities are keen to detect and confiscate as many as possible. The sniffer dogs can smell the lithium batteries inside the mobile phones and can easily find the phones. It goes without saying that the prisoners do not like the search dogs.
I have been back to Haverhill to fit vertical blinds and roller blinds in the dogs house several more times. They are happy in their work.
Snake(not Plissken)
Thursday, March 12th, 2009Some years ago I was asked to supply and install a vertical blind for a lady in Thetford near to the Pine Close shops.
As I was fitting the vertical blind I noticed a fish tank which I assumed contained a hamster or some other kind of pet rodent. When I had finished fitting the blind I asked her what lived in the tank. It was her pet snake! She then got the snake from the depths of the tank to show me. He was a lovely tan brown colour and probably about two feet long.
He looked a bit groggy and seemed unimpressed with being shown off by his mum. She went on to explain that the snake ate mice (already dead) which were frozen and had to defrost naturally. You never know what lies hidden behind the vertical blinds in Thetford.
We supply and install vertical blinds in Thetford. You can see blinds in our Brandon showroom or at www.baileysblinds.com
Rattus
Wednesday, February 18th, 2009Have just fitted some vertical blinds for a lady in Bury St Edmunds who keeps pet rats. When I arrived some of the rats peeked out of their beds inquisitively. I was allowed to have a hold and a stroke of some of them. They were very well behaved and did not mind being handled.
In the same week I also saw some chinchillas in another house in Bury St Edmunds. They are much bigger then rats but not as inquisitive or tame. Makes a change from cats and dogs!