If any of you have been wondering where all of my blogs on this page have gone to, please know that I am also wondering the same thing. What happened was a while back, I wrote a blog, but when I posted it, all of my blogs disappeared from this page.

As a result, I have decided to very rarely come to visit this page and if any of you want to know what's up with me, in terms of my latest news, you can do so at one of my other 3 pages:

http://www.multiply.com/paranormalprincess

http://LadyEilonwy.coven-space.com

http://www.myspace.com/sciatichen

You guys probably are tired of hearing about my guinea pig Alucard by now which is why I was going to stop blogging about him, but unfortunately, Alucard's condition has gone from bad to worse.

Earlier today, when I was holding him, he yawned and I happened to notice what looked like a sore inside of him mouth. When I was petting him today, I found an open sore on his stomach.

Just a few minutes ago, when I was walking past his cage, I noticed him lying on his side, breathing heavily for 15 seconds, then he got up and got some water to drink and seemed fine again.

What kinda sucks is that right now, nothing can be done physically (or apparently magickally) to heal/save little Alucard at this point. My husband cast a healing spell on Alucard before his heavy breathing episode. Not only that, but I have been giving him Holy Water as well and while the Holy Water does help to heal him, none of what we're doing is enough.

When I held him today he just looked up at me and cried and when my husband petted him he purred.

I'm hoping that whatever this is, Alucard recovers fully from it, becasue I worry about that little guinea pig. Quite frankly, I'm not ready to lose him yet - he's still young, which is why my husband and I are doing everything that we can in order to save him.

Today, Alucard seems to be a little lethargic, but his fur is no longer rough to the touch, although it is still kinda dull. I have decided to keep an eye on him (as the nearest exotic pet vet clinic is over 2 miles away AND since my husband's and my car does not work at all, my husband would have the "fun" experience of transporting little Alucard on his motorcycle/moped hybrid bike (scooter, if you want to be technical about it) and if he gets worse and absolutely needs to go to the vet, then he's going to have to go on a trip wth my husband - a trip that I don't think that Alucard is going to like too much.

Right now, Alucard is eating as I write this blog and he is being himself (except for the factt for the fact that he has yet to run around his cage and fling litter everywhere).

The Holy Water has made him considerably better - before, he had rough fur and patches of diahreea in his cage. While I still have yet to check his cage today, from what I can smell, it seems as if he's had no diahreea at all during the night, which might mean that the Holy Water is doing its job.

just wanted to drop in here and tell everyone that I have some good news and bad news to share with all of you.

First of all, the good news is that my husband Jeff just published a book on rune magick - when it is up on Amazon.com, I will be advertising it on my page. The other good news is that I am in the process of writing a book, but I don't know when it will be ready for publication - I'll keep all of you updated on that.

Second of all, the bad news is that everything seems to be happening to us at once right now. First of all, Jeff's and my car doesn't work (it doesn't even start), my dog still isn't back with Jeff and I again (and I won't be getting her home before Christmas, which really sucks), and to top it all off, Alucard seems to be ill. His cage was reeking for about a week and I spot-clean it (that is, every time I find a wet spot, I clean it up), and this was happening every time I cleaned it. After Jeff got Alucard new litter, I took him - cage and all - outside onto my front porch, put him in the fish tank (where he goes when he gets his cage cleaned, put the lid on it with a book to hold it down, and proceeded to clean his regular cage.

At first, it wasn't bad at all - just bedding soaked with the usual guinea pig pee and poo - but, when I got all of the old litter out, that's when I saw guinea pig diahreea on the plastic surface beneath his bedding. It turned out that he was sick, but was hiding it by burying it beneath his litter, then acting normal (and since Alucard was NOT neutered, I thought he was just marking his cage thinking that it was just an attempt on his part to find a female guinea pig), so I was surprised. Since he had poop on his paws (his front paws were red on the pads of them), I gave him a bath.

When I petted Alucard once his fur was dry, instead of being smooth, it was rough. Also, instead of scrambling to get to his food bowl when I fed Alucard his dinner, he hid in his little pigloo.

He purred a little bit when I petted him and he's eating, so I'm not too worried about him - after all, he is also drinking.

With that being said, unfortunately for us, there are no reliable vets that treat exotics around here, so we're stuck with having to treat Alucard at home - and hopefully not accidentally kill him.

Well, Jeff and I are both legally ordained clergy - and, only legally ordained clergy can make potent Holy Water - so, I did something that most of you would consider saccreligious - when I changed Alucard's water today, I turned the fresh water that I put into his bottle into Holy Water, then gave it to him. Hopefully, since part of the incnatation to make Holy Water reads, "healing to the sick", it will cure him.

It is the most unorthodox treatment for a sick guinea pig, but since Holy Water is basically just regular water that has been psychically charged with powers of the Divine, it is actually safe to drink. When you take regular tap water and turn it into Holy Water, it tastes different.

Hopefully, giving Alucard Holy Water, will make him better, but to be on the safe side, I'm going to do every single prayer and spell that I can get my hands on to heal him as well. Hopefully though, just drinking the Holy Water will make him better.