Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[rural mouse]

This girl right here, this innocent looking angel.
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This girl is now infamous at the vets after her last visit 5 weeks ago.
She will not under any circumstance allow us to clip or dremel her toenails. We have tried it all, muzzle, at home sedation to the point of thinking we overdosed her and nope not having it. They do not wear down properly either. When the vet was out for the yearly shots and coggins on the horses he went ahead and gave her the yearly shots and rabies. We explained the toenail situation to him and he just tried to pick up a foot to look and nope not having it. He scheduled her right away to be brought in to be put under sedation the following Tuesday.
We show up and explain what she was being dropped off for. Told them we could not touch her toes no matter how hard we tried. The vet techs gave us a few skeptical looks like they did not believe us. We forgot to mention microchipping when we dropped her off. The receptionist told us they could go ahead and do it before they brought her out. Hah, she comes back 2 minutes later and says she was grouchy and if it was ok they would do it next time she was in for her nails. We also had to go in the back to get her as she was hateful.
2 days later the vet who actually has property above us that he is logging stopped to talk to me as I was walking her. He wanted to know how she was doing and was she sore. I casually mentioned the hateful remark and he started laughing and said they didn't tell you did they.
Miss CeeCee made a name for herself, and not in a good way. They sedated her, or so they thought. When the clipper touched the first nail she came out of it, and came out fighting. She took another full dose and they waited 30 more minutes to make sure she was fully knocked out before they attempted again. There was no way there were going to attempt to microchip without her under.
This morning Keeper is being neutered and CeeCee is back for another nail trim and microchipping. The minute we walk in the door one of the techs said here comes the grizzly bear disguised as a polar bear. Mom started to remind them she needed extra sedation and they were all like "we know, double the dose and make sure she is OUT before we touch her. Pray for us."
It's finally happened after having dogs and cats all my life. I finally have one of red flag labeled animals at the vets.

Tax.
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Sorry for laughing, but she's such a sweetheart, at least in picture. Wonder how she would handle needing porcupine quills or cactus spines removed?

 

[RebeccaBoyd]

Dang it Randy! I guess I should feel honored, but right now I am frustrated. The black rooster came back up to the yard. Bubba and Randy are out of sight so I sat on a milk crate and tried to bait him to me by tossing corn his way. He was finally getting close when Randy comes out of nowhere and runs him off and calls for Bubba for back up. Bubba was not far behind. Randy then proceeds to escort me to the back door when I gave up. I may not can touch him but Randy has claimed me as his I see. I have to work on the black rooster when he is at my house. I have tried luring him in close down at the barn but he just runs and never attempts to head in my direction. Randy and Bubba, right now they will have none of that.

 

[RebeccaBoyd]

Sorry for laughing, but she's such a sweetheart, at least in picture. Wonder how she would handle needing porcupine quills or cactus spines removed?

I never want to find out. CeeCee is a good girl. She is wary of strangers and has to meet people a few times before she likes them. We can do everything and anything to her except her nails. She loves to give her paws for a shake and leg scratch. Try to touch the nail and she jerks it away. She has been snake bit in the face once. That required 2 weeks of cleaning the wound, and medicine. Did not phase her and never once did she so much as growl even though it was painful. Her vet said it is the malamute in her that makes her that way with her nails and her wariness of strange people.

 

[SimpleJenn]

I never want to find out. CeeCee is a good girl. She is wary of strangers and has to meet people a few times before she likes them. We can do everything and anything to her except her nails. She loves to give her paws for a shake and leg scratch. Try to touch the nail and she jerks it away. She has been snake bit in the face once. That required 2 weeks of cleaning the wound, and medicine. Did not phase her and never once did she so much as growl even though it was painful. Her vet said it is the malamute in her that makes her that way with her nails and her wariness of strange people.

Makes sense. Spitz breeds are very wary by default. Fenix will warm up eventually and hasn't attacked anyone yet but he sure does scare them!

 

[SimpleJenn]

Fluffy butt Friday

Broody Samara

Shep and her weird butt

Ash

Morinth will you cooperate?

A lovely side picture at least..

Liara found the special treat! Some "chick mix" I grew for them!

 

[Themellowyellows]

Happy fluff butt fridayy!

Spot the fluff bottom!

 

[RoyalChick]

This girl right here, this innocent looking angel.
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This girl is now infamous at the vets after her last visit 5 weeks ago.
She will not under any circumstance allow us to clip or dremel her toenails. We have tried it all, muzzle, at home sedation to the point of thinking we overdosed her and nope not having it. They do not wear down properly either. When the vet was out for the yearly shots and coggins on the horses he went ahead and gave her the yearly shots and rabies. We explained the toenail situation to him and he just tried to pick up a foot to look and nope not having it. He scheduled her right away to be brought in to be put under sedation the following Tuesday.
We show up and explain what she was being dropped off for. Told them we could not touch her toes no matter how hard we tried. The vet techs gave us a few skeptical looks like they did not believe us. We forgot to mention microchipping when we dropped her off. The receptionist told us they could go ahead and do it before they brought her out. Hah, she comes back 2 minutes later and says she was grouchy and if it was ok they would do it next time she was in for her nails. We also had to go in the back to get her as she was hateful.
2 days later the vet who actually has property above us that he is logging stopped to talk to me as I was walking her. He wanted to know how she was doing and was she sore. I casually mentioned the hateful remark and he started laughing and said they didn't tell you did they.
Miss CeeCee made a name for herself, and not in a good way. They sedated her, or so they thought. When the clipper touched the first nail she came out of it, and came out fighting. She took another full dose and they waited 30 more minutes to make sure she was fully knocked out before they attempted again. There was no way there were going to attempt to microchip without her under.
This morning Keeper is being neutered and CeeCee is back for another nail trim and microchipping. The minute we walk in the door one of the techs said here comes the grizzly bear disguised as a polar bear. Mom started to remind them she needed extra sedation and they were all like "we know, double the dose and make sure she is OUT before we touch her. Pray for us."
It's finally happened after having dogs and cats all my life. I finally have one of red flag labeled animals at the vets.

Tax.
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My smallest pint sized cat is like that. One vet won’t even see her. She says they don’t have good chemistry!!

 

[RoyalChick]

Dang it Randy! I guess I should feel honored, but right now I am frustrated. The black rooster came back up to the yard. Bubba and Randy are out of sight so I sat on a milk crate and tried to bait him to me by tossing corn his way. He was finally getting close when Randy comes out of nowhere and runs him off and calls for Bubba for back up. Bubba was not far behind. Randy then proceeds to escort me to the back door when I gave up. I may not can touch him but Randy has claimed me as his I see. I have to work on the black rooster when he is at my house. I have tried luring him in close down at the barn but he just runs and never attempts to head in my direction. Randy and Bubba, right now they will have none of that.

Sounds like Randy and Bubba are a team now.

 

[BY Bob]

No Thirsty Thursday but it has been a while since you've all seen Mozzarella. Here are photos. Let's take a break from Grandma for a bit. Sorry Grandma. We still love you. Just give Moxie her time to shine.
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What a beauty!

 

[BY Bob]

Thank you both for those informative posts. I didn't have the global picture and it does seem very different from what happens here where 85 to 90% of fires have a human cause.
(Although I just saw in the news that Chico's fire in CA is criminal ).
I realise what rough terrain can mean. My brother is a volunteer firefighter / rescue in one of the mountain valleys across us and he says sometimes it can take up to a day for the foresters to clear them an access to the fire zone, and that's with surfaces that are so much smaller than on the north american continent. It's one of the main reason we mow and clean up dead wood on our steep land and we help my parents with theirs too.

Farmers here had a tradition we call ecoburning, burning the mountain grazing land for the sheeps to clear some of the bad weeds, and now the foresters also do controlled burning in the forest, for the reasons you mention. Ecoburning for farmers is completely illegal now but some of the old-timers still do it and regularly someone loses control of the fire because the weather conditions and the wind have become much more difficult.

When I posted this pic on my thread, @BDutch informed us that the deutsch have a dedicated name for that : cheesy-toe taste .

Out of subject fluffy butt tax :

I'm so glad Piou-piou has got some of her fluff back after a year being almost naked from plucking her feathers!
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Mélisse
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Léa
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