Granny's gone and done it again

[Granny Hatchet]

Wow Becky, thats terrible. Im glad you at least found some answers. What a shame. I never heard of it either. Thank you for the warning.

 

[h2oratt]

Its much easier for pigs. Just a wood plank going across the corner of a stall would do. It acts like a barrier for dodging too. The adult pigs are fat and can't jump over. Cheap and easy. Cap, what are you planning to do for a creep feeder?

Who you calling fat?

 

[CapricornFarm]

And you are going to part with the boys? Cap if we were closer I'd have me some pet wethers right about now!

Yes, i expect to sell all 8 kids.

 

[microchick]

Sorry that happened. But at least she had a good life with you while she lived.

She sure did, Cap thank you. These were the dogs that we rescued from an Amish puppy mill. They were destined for a .22 bullet and a one way trip to the nearest ditch if we hadn't taken them. So she had two great years she wouldn't have had otherwise.

I found an ornament on line that broke my heart. It was a red heeler angel curled up asleep with it's angel wings wrapped around it. There was also a card with that picture that read. Your wings were ready but our hearts were not.

My husband saw it and said. Please don't buy that. Neither of us need any more pain from losing her.

 

[microchick]

Yes, i expect to sell all 8 kids.

So you aren't going to keep the does either? Man you are stronger than I am, girl.

 

[microchick]

Dinner is history. I'm sitting here waiting for the Kitchen Fairies to come out and clean up for me and so far they are no shows so I guess I'd better go out and put dishes to soak.

TTFN.

 

[CapricornFarm]

So you aren't going to keep the does either? Man you are stronger than I am, girl.

I am only allowed 6 goats, so waiting for really super well marked ones to keep two more.

 

[h2oratt]

She developed a rare parasitical infection called Pythiosis. It's an amoebic type parasite that can live in still water. All 5 of them had access to a 40 foot pond that was behind our barn. They all loved to play and splash in it so we didn't think anything of it and had never heard of pythiosis before.

She started vomiting, refusing all food and all she drank came back up. Vet thought she had gastritis and gave me meds. Next day she was worse and starting to dehydrate. Vet blew us off, gave us more nausea meds which she promptly threw back up. By Sunday she was worse yet and started passing bloody diarrhea. We paniced at that but the Vet's father, also a vet just said, well we could take her to Columbia and the Vet college there but they couldn't help her. We wound up rushing her to another vet nearby who said, she wouldn't survive the trip to Columbia and worked to stabilize her so Monday morning we could get her to Columbia and the Vet college hospital there.

They suspected she had swallowed something that was blocking her intestine but one test lead to another and the last thing they did was an MRI and that is when they found that there were colonies of this parasite in her that had blocked her bowel, invaded her stomach. She had peritonitis and there were these tumors all over her digestive tract that are caused by the parasite. No cure. No treatment. Most dogs are immune to them but for some reason our sweet Sidney wasn't. We had no choice but to have her put to sleep as by this point she was suffering.

Even if the local vet had taken things more seriously, she would have still died but as it was we lost a loving young cattle dog who suffered far longer than she should have and he lost clients with 11 animals.

I spread the word now not to let your dogs play in or drink out of water puddles or standing water. There are thing in them that you can't see that can potentially kill your dog.

Yes but how many people can afford to pay for an MRI on their dog.

 

[BigBlueHen53]

12:06 here. I usually go to bed at 2 pm.

Oh duh, I had you in CA, lol. You mean 2 am?

 

[CapricornFarm]

Oh duh, I had you in CA, lol. You mean 2 am?

Yeah, brain fart. In VA.