Okay need your advice peeps!
Regarding Scarlett. The way they want to work it is for us to bring our two down to meet her and if they get on after about 45 mins or so we can take her home with us. Given the rescue is at least 2 ½ hour’s drive each way and possibly more we’d be limited in when we could get down to do this and, more pertinently, how soon we could take her back if things don’t work out. We both have some time off from the 14th of this month which is the earliest we’ve got free because Ian’s on call this weekend.
Sprocket and Widget are booked in for their VHD vacs on the 14th so I wouldn’t want to stress them by taking them down on the Saturday. Sunday to Wednesday we’re both free, but then I’m away from Thursday until the Sunday. So, ideally Sunday or Monday could work, but basically if things went pear shaped after the first couple of days I’m not confident that Ian would know what to do if they started fighting when I’m away and we only have Gasket and Tappet’s old hutch and no spare run if things went wrong- obviously not ideal.
The only other time we have free is the bank holiday weekend, but the following weekend, Ian’s on call again so we’d probably have difficulty again getting her back to Essex if things went wrong. Also that’s assuming any of those dates would be of any use to the fosterer.
There’s also the litter that Sky-O posted about which are much closer to us, but it ounds like they won't be ready for a few more weeks. I had already enquired about this little essex bun before Sky-O posted about these new ones, and would feel really bad if we had to turn her down, but I really want to be sure I’m doing the right thing for everyone concerned.
Another complication is that from the 2nd October I’m in South Africa for three weeks, (Ian will be looking after then buns) so unless we can get one settled in fairly soon, given how many weekends we’ve got between now and then I’m wondering if it would be better to wait until I get back and then take it from there.
What do you think I should do? :?