Ok thanks popeye333. If Jack does come down here to Christchurch it would be good to know the name, address, eMail, telephone number of his veterinarian in Auckland or wherever he has been before to get some sort of treatment record for whomever will be his vet down here.
It's not the least charm of a theory that it is refutable. The hundred-times-refuted theory of "free will" owes its persistence to this charm alone; some one is always appearing who feels himself strong enough to refute it - Friedrich Nietzsche