Today I was talking to my friend at school and she told me yet another one of her animals has died. This hasn't been the first time she has told me of one of her animals dying. I know it happens to all of us...Just this year two of my peafowl were killed by raccoons, but this is a different situation...
My friend loves animals, but my parents and I are not sure if she is taking good care of her animals. She isn't a close friend anymore, but when we were closer and I visited her house she had a pomeranian and a cat. The pomeranian ran away so she got a cute little female jack rustle puppy she named Tinkerbell. I loved that dog but I was worried about it. One day at her house she picked up Tinkerbell and threw her into the pool!! The poor dog did nothing to deserve it. I looked at my friend in shock and told her that you don't just throw dogs into the pool for no reason. I think she told me something like "Well Tinkerbell is okay". My friend's backyard is of a good size and is fenced but instead of letting Tinkerbell run around in the big backyard I think most of the time she was kept in a little square pen with barely any room for her doghouse and food bowls. The little pen was all dug up and Tinkerbell ran all around the pen like crazy. I asked her if the dog needed a bigger pen but she said they let her out every now and then. Not too long afterward at school I found out that Tinkerbell had died...She wasn't that old...My friend told me something happened to her, maybe it was worms. I don't think she knew that you are supposed to give dogs medicine to prevent that. Then she got into chickens...She raised them up from little chicks and I think around when they got full sized and she let them out they were all killed by hawks. Then she got mini goats. She had two males, one died very soon after she got them, I forgot why it died then she got a female for the lone male and was hoping on breeding them. Today she informed me that the male died because he couldn't pee. I guess he was acting funny so she took him to the vet and they said he was full of pee and he had a blockage. My friend said sand was the blockage and the vet tried to fix the blockage but the goat's bladder burst and they couldn't save him. I asked her if they told her how to prevent that from happening again. She said that if he was fixed that wouldn't be a problem and that there are some special foods they can eat to prevent that but that those foods don't really work and the vet said that it was a common thing for goats to have that problem but that normally they don't die from it. I am not a goat keeper or expert so I don't know about that stuff. My friend told me she really loves goats and she cried telling me that her goat had died. She really liked that one.
Also, this friend wants peafowl from me. I am not selling peafowl yet but may this breeding season and I am just a little worried. I love peafowl soo much and I couldn't bear to sell some birds to someone who can't keep them alive for long. The only pet she has that has been alive for a long time is her pet cat Tom. He has been around forever but cats are good at taking care of themselves...
What do you all think? Is my friend just very unlucky when it comes to pets or do you think there is something behind all of these deaths? She said to me today that her backyard is like a pet cemetery and she started naming all the pets she had buried back there: 2 dogs, several chickens, goats...
I just don't know if you could have that much bad luck...Maybe she just isn't reading up on the animals and things like that? I don't know but it must be hard for her to have animals dying all the time...
My friend loves animals, but my parents and I are not sure if she is taking good care of her animals. She isn't a close friend anymore, but when we were closer and I visited her house she had a pomeranian and a cat. The pomeranian ran away so she got a cute little female jack rustle puppy she named Tinkerbell. I loved that dog but I was worried about it. One day at her house she picked up Tinkerbell and threw her into the pool!! The poor dog did nothing to deserve it. I looked at my friend in shock and told her that you don't just throw dogs into the pool for no reason. I think she told me something like "Well Tinkerbell is okay". My friend's backyard is of a good size and is fenced but instead of letting Tinkerbell run around in the big backyard I think most of the time she was kept in a little square pen with barely any room for her doghouse and food bowls. The little pen was all dug up and Tinkerbell ran all around the pen like crazy. I asked her if the dog needed a bigger pen but she said they let her out every now and then. Not too long afterward at school I found out that Tinkerbell had died...She wasn't that old...My friend told me something happened to her, maybe it was worms. I don't think she knew that you are supposed to give dogs medicine to prevent that. Then she got into chickens...She raised them up from little chicks and I think around when they got full sized and she let them out they were all killed by hawks. Then she got mini goats. She had two males, one died very soon after she got them, I forgot why it died then she got a female for the lone male and was hoping on breeding them. Today she informed me that the male died because he couldn't pee. I guess he was acting funny so she took him to the vet and they said he was full of pee and he had a blockage. My friend said sand was the blockage and the vet tried to fix the blockage but the goat's bladder burst and they couldn't save him. I asked her if they told her how to prevent that from happening again. She said that if he was fixed that wouldn't be a problem and that there are some special foods they can eat to prevent that but that those foods don't really work and the vet said that it was a common thing for goats to have that problem but that normally they don't die from it. I am not a goat keeper or expert so I don't know about that stuff. My friend told me she really loves goats and she cried telling me that her goat had died. She really liked that one.
Also, this friend wants peafowl from me. I am not selling peafowl yet but may this breeding season and I am just a little worried. I love peafowl soo much and I couldn't bear to sell some birds to someone who can't keep them alive for long. The only pet she has that has been alive for a long time is her pet cat Tom. He has been around forever but cats are good at taking care of themselves...
What do you all think? Is my friend just very unlucky when it comes to pets or do you think there is something behind all of these deaths? She said to me today that her backyard is like a pet cemetery and she started naming all the pets she had buried back there: 2 dogs, several chickens, goats...
I just don't know if you could have that much bad luck...Maybe she just isn't reading up on the animals and things like that? I don't know but it must be hard for her to have animals dying all the time...
