Thanks for the well wishes everyone, GP at a loss regarding antibiotics so waiting for the lab to report back and luckily I have the urologist on Monday. It just means a crappy weekend to get through, I spent last night shivering and shaking. The timing of this sucks as second DS, fiancé and 2 DGC are coming to stay next Wednesday for a holiday. I love my dc's so much, they choose to take their annual holiday visiting me rather than having a proper holiday makes me feel so loved. The 2 DGC's that have been living here for the last six months came home yesterday from visiting family in mums home country, I went to see them at their house 
It was lovely to see them but horrible coming home to an empty house with just dss here as usual rooted in front of TV and barely speaking to me.
DH was out for dinner with work so I ended up skipping dinner and going to bed at 7:00pm so I might be accidentally doing a 24hr fast as I'm still not up and last ate at 12:30 yesterday.
Grah I really believe that you are either a big dog or a small dog person, I've always been a big dog kinda gal but there is no way I can make a commitment to exercise a big dog adequately. So it has to be a small dog, it can't be any kind of terrier as it will have an instinct to kill the bunnies.
My Chi is going to be a dog, it will get socialised from day one, won't be allowed on the furniture, will do,obedience classes and when it's a year old will begin therapy training. We are hoping that it will learn to recognise when I have an infection and when my SATs are low. I also want to use it for hospital visiting, I have a friend in the village who has a one year old chi that has just started training so we intend doing hospital visits together.
Apart from me the other big reason to get it is Smokey, he gets mega stressed when left alone either in the house or garden, it's proved impossible to bond him with another rabbit and the cat being here has shown us the potential for him to bond to another species. Chi's date back to Aztec times and were bred as companion dogs, they had high status and didn't need to hunt, they later were bred as a tasty snack (Smokey is also a meat breed).
I hate with a passion yappy, snappy dogs and handbag accessories so it absolutely won't become one of those. I want a proper dog, small in size and big in personality. I've done a lot of research and I've met many Chi's that behave like dogs and roll in fox poo, get muddy, have impeccable manners etc.
My dog will have an outdoor kennel and run of the garden with Smokey during the bulk of the day, it will sleep in a crate and eat with Smokey not the humans.
I still wish I could have an Irish Water Spaniel (dream dog) or a Doberman but there is no way I could deal with a six stone dog covered in mud, fox poo etc. A Chi can be everything I need in a small package.
The wait for a fully trained therapy dog is about five years so I think we are going the sensible route. Watch this space