If ever a month could drive me to get rid of all the animals and never have them again, this is the month. Don’t worry, it hasn’t, and I’m not really challenging fate or nature or anyone else to try and make me.
It started with Coral losing her baby and having a C-section. She will get her stitches out soon.
Coral Blackboer
About two days later, the vet came back to check out Coral’s mother Pistol. She had a soft lump on her side, which turned out to be a hernia. You can see the lump on her side.
She is confined to the Love Shack so nobody can pick on her any more (hernia is likely due to a horn to her gut) and hopefully the hernia doesn’t get worse. Once her babies arrive, we will fix the hernia.
Pistol Osboer
Until then, I’ll listen to her hollering to be let out. 😦
Helen’s little girl that she rejected is growing and big and full of energy, and I’m giving her Pepto Bismol and probiotics, and she’s still not pooping solid. She had another bath today. I do think she’s better, but this is really getting old after two weeks.
Cindy Lou Van de Yell
The cat has not been himself lately. He saw the vet when he started drooling. They checked him over and couldn’t really find anything, but he got antibiotics in case there was an infection they couldn’t yet see. He really didn’t improve, so he went back about ten days later and they drew blood. It was perfect! A week or so later, his lower jaw swelled and the drooling was horrible. He was in intense pain.
Snickers
He went back, and they did an x-ray and could see the ulcer in his mouth. He’s on antibiotics, and he is improving, but there is still a possibility that the infection was a secondary issue and he has cancer.
Only time will tell. At least for now, he’s not in severe pain.
Millie got run down and seemed to have an infection in her lung. Being run down raising a big kid and being sick caused her to pick up worms. She was horribly ill, but she’s on the mend. She still has a long way to go. I’ve been giving her all kinds of drugs and probiotics and cutting grass. To make things worse, while she has been shut in, her kid was killed by predators.
Millie Ann Saanen
Annie surprised me with having her kids nine days early, which caused her to lose one when she couldn’t give birth. If I hadn’t found her when I did, I don’t think she would have made it. She was completely exhausted and in a lot of pain from being in hard labor for who knows how many hours. Now she has mastitis, probably from having that swollen udder on the ground while she was trying to give birth for so long.
Annie Belle O’Boera
She’s on antibiotics and pain killers and probiotics, but she’s still miserable. Her little boy is doing amazing! Of course, he is now another bottle kid. I’d show you how well he’s filling out, but he was napping under the bench. Just think, he’s not due for another six days.
Hershey Osboer
Today’s heat makes it even harder for her and all the pregnant ones, and even the not pregnant ones are panting.
Linking to SOOC Sunday and Your Sunday Best.
Teresa
Eden Hills 