EDUCATIONAL INCUBATION & HATCHING CHAT THREAD, w/ Sally Sunshine Shipped Eggs

[BantyChooks]

I ended up lining the rim with duct tape, coz everything's better that way....

 

[OneMountainAcres]

@kajira I'm so very sorry for your loss We just went through this last month with our dog Dreamy. It's such a terrible and heartbreaking tragedy when you lose a beloved pet.

 

[Pensmaster]

Look at all the friendly waves.....gosh!  Thanks and hi right back!  A body'd think someone was maybe kicking around getting some hatching eggs or something, huh?

I had thought about getting some. Eggs that is. However the folks I've been watching has withdrawn all their eggs from eBay. Couple weird reviews have them spooked I think. Too bad.

 

[kajira]

@kajira I'm so very sorry for your loss

We just went through this last month with our dog Dreamy. It's such a terrible and heartbreaking tragedy when you lose a beloved pet.

I jus twish the vet's didn't try to drain you of 1000bucks to just say goodbye to your pet at the end, I don't know if your's did that, but the first thing our vet did, was bring up chemo - when I said I wouldn't put him through that, that's when they tried to rule out "Everything but cancer" instead of ruling out cancer first.

 

[Pensmaster]

@kajira I'm so very sorry for your loss We just went through this last month with our dog Dreamy. It's such a terrible and heartbreaking tragedy when you lose a beloved pet.

X's a million for sure.

 

[kajira]

X's a million for sure.

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he's the cat on top. the fat cat on the bottom is still alive.

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[Fire Ant Farm]

Quote: I block trolls.

Quote: I have LOTS of bats in my yard. They eat lots of bugs. I don't have a little house for them to anything - they have their own... somewhere... out there...

Black flies in Nunavut

So, how is it again that you justify how much more wonderful your bug ridden frozen wasteland is than Texas?!?

SQUEEEEEEEE!

I just had my first egg hatch. The little chipmunk fuzzy butt started with a pip and pulled a Cartman.......Said "s.... you fellows I'm goin home" only instead of going home it just erupted out of the shell and is happily screaming it's little lungs out. It set for a good 15 minutes with half of the shell on it's back so I've named it Tortuga, the turtle, Tori for short.

I have a lot more pips waiting in the wings. This is so exciting! Safe to say I'm hooked!

Quote: Yep - that's what happens to me as well. As soon as I'm all done, THEN they go broody...

There are gators down there. And snakes. *Shiver*

Hey, I found this on one of my hikes:

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Hello, Darlin'

Swallower workin' gooder yet?

I just missed you yesterday, was in a bit of pain, did too much I guess, I thought I would love to jump out of my own skin for some reason, was horrible. I guess I relied on pain meds too much eh>?

Sooo kiddos in home schooling starts tomorrow and my house is horrible, I so dont want her teacher to see this chaos. Why do things happen at the same time and ughhhhh I am so frustrated but I cant do nothing about it.

I need to afford a housekeeper for a bit

Quote: I wish I could do that. It's illegal to buy/sell duckweed in Texas, so I can't find a source. I guess it's reasonable, but still...

sorry for the pause. Birds had to come in and brooders had to be switched around. appointments went ok. hand went cold again. everything was good until I got to the pharmacy. Apparently I looked "drug seeking" because I don't fill my pain pills often enough and filled it on a Sunday

The were very rude and embarrassing. An apology that "I felt that way" but then justified the clerks behavior because "Well you know how it is" ???? Yup-obviously I must still look like I'm "From The "D" and not far north enough

I sneezed think imma go die now

Oh no...

Quote: Wow. (Maybe someone has some duck weed I can harvest on the down low...)

(Only in the corner cause my hand was in the brooder.).

- Ant Farm

 

[OneMountainAcres]

I jus twish the vet's didn't try to drain you of 1000bucks to just say goodbye to your pet at the end, I don't know if your's did that, but the first thing our vet did, was bring up chemo - when I said I wouldn't put him through that, that's when they tried to rule out "Everything but cancer" instead of ruling out cancer first.

I know, it's terrible how they take advantage. Dreamy passed away at home overnight so we didn't have to deal with the that. I'm pretty certain that she was diabetic and had cancer. She was scheduled for surgery to remove a burst tumor a few days after she passed. They were going to do a full blood panel and everything then before putting her under. She never made it to that point though.

 

[Fire Ant Farm]

@Sally Sunshine @BantyChooks @DwayneNLiz @MotorcycleChick


TLDR : Cat had cancer, didn't come home from the vet....

Long, dramatic version below.


I know pets may not always be up there for everyone as a best friend, and not all animals are made equal.

When my horse died a couple weeks ago, it was "sad" but I didn't even cry. I liked her, but I didn't "loveeeee" her like some animals make you feel.
Today, after a week of debating, I scheduled a vet appointment for my cat, that i've had almost the entire time I've been married.

my "cancer" warning bells were going off. His only symptom was losing weight. I'd noticed it a couple weeks ago, but after verifying he was getting his share of the cat food, I decided I needed to take him in just to see if my spider sense was right, or wrong.

We had a very eventful day. He decided to commit cat suicide, he busted out of a dog crate, that was tied down in the back of my car, and jumped out of my truck at 80 miles an hour and faceplanted on the cement. After a near- panic attack, and stopping to get him and putting him in the cab with me, I raced him to the vet, and brought him inside. Only to find out, his suicide attempt not only FAILED, but he barely was injured. A bloody nose, a couple scrapes and bruises, and a black eye. Maybe a mild concussion.

All things consider, he got freaking lucky beyond belief, for trying to kill himself by jumping out of the back of the truck. He's been in cars/trucks/crates before, and has NEVER attempted to get out of one prior to this.

We get there, and a bunch of running around by the vet, on all these expensive tests, and how it could be all these things, and me telling them "disprove he has cancer, I want proof its not cancer." After running all his labs, and then coming back normal, and them finding enlarged lymph nodes, both by his thyroid, AND his belly, I told them, verify that it's not cancer.

More run around, and me telling them I have no intention of taking him home unless they can prove what I think is cancer ISNT cancer... they finally cave and aspirate the lymph nodes. (think 600+ dollars later of testing, 300+ which could have been saved, had they just aspirated the lymph nodes like I wanted to begin with....)

He has large cell cancer. Given his little suicide attempt, and he went from 15lbs to 9lbs in a month, and talking with kids, husband, etc, we decided to say our goodbyes. Buying him weeks, or a couple more months with prednisone, didn't seem the best way to go for him....

So I said goodbye today, to the one cat who only liked me. That I loved, that I knew when I put him in that truck today, I was saying goodbye too. I don't know how to explain how I know "cancer" when I sense it, but I've yet to be wrong when I called "cancer" in an animal... Which is why I told the vet she was upsetting me by not ruling it out as the #1 thing before wasting my time with thyroid tests and other labs. (hundreds of dollars, actually.)

Kids didn't want to see him suffer, or decline and lose more weight, and we didn't know if he had any issues from the fall that would cause him to seizure at home a day or two later, and I couldn't just walk into a room and find him dead. I loved him too much to deal with the trauma it would have put on me, to do that. At least this way, I know he didn't suffer. I know they made sure he didn't feel any pain, and he was able to live a good life with no horrible last 2-3 months of extending his suffering just to not say goodbye to him.
The logical part of me goes "all that money they wasted, could have saved another cat, who was young and needed a home."

The other part of me goes, you needed an answer and you did the right thing to confirm what you already knew so you could come to terms with saying goodbye.

and then, had he NOT decided to attempt caticide, I might have brought him home and forced him to suffer for days, weeks, or months because he "was healthy enough" to give it a shot... but his little faceplant on the cement took that choice away from me logically. I couldn't justify it, because I didn't think he'd be strong enough to deal with everything else on top of that.


I just.... he was a good cat, and 10 isn't old enough

Quote: Hugs for all of you tonight, and tomorrow, and the next day, and the next...

- Ant Farm

 

[Fire Ant Farm]

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Blooie!!!!! Good to see you!

I've got MHPs coming out of my ears (lots of chicks this year) - I've gotten very proficient at building them. I will post photos of the build of my MEGA version on the MHP thread, with two of the standard sized heating pads (I've already tortured the folks here enough, I think).

- Ant Farm