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[FrChuckW]

Cindy,

How is Amy doing? Hope she is still improving. My Maeve has learned how to pull socks through the holes in one of my laundry hampers. At least they are the clean ones!

She also has developed a taste for telephone cords. She has chewed through 2 of them so far!

And she is also herding the MinPins. If they get off the bed, which she can't get on yet, if they won't play with her she bothers them to the point where they get back on the bed just to avoid her.

 

[ametauss]

Shelley -- I had the same problem with nails.... I ended up convincing DH that screws were sent from God for those of use unable to hammer straight....

We put our coop together (acutally two of them) using screws... I even put up gutters with screws.... LOVE the screw gun.... I'll never leave home without it...

Sorry to hear about your Dad... I thing sometimes they don't realize that you're an adult and feel entitled to being taken care of.... Just remember that once he's gone he's gone and try to cherish what you have now even if it is difficult.

I Still don't have baby goats!! I let Ella out when I got home last night for a few hours and cleaned the stall since it was quite smelly... I hate rain and wet barns.... I think it makes the barn smell worse than it should.... I left the stall open this morning and she seemed a bit happy to see her loved ones... Maybe today she'll decide to have her babies....

 

[ametauss]

Here's a good laugh for everyone this morning....

In a previous post I mentioned that we took in a rat terrier that someone dropped off on our road....

We have two house dogs: a pit bull (big baby boy) and an Australian Shep/lab mix (girl)....

The other night DS let the two in from outside before Penny (rat terrier) had finished her dinner....


Penny took on the two of them and Athena (Aus. Shep) thought.. hhhuummm you want to play and laid on the floor to accommodate her and Penny grabed her neck... Well that led to quite a scuffle and DH ended up picking Penny up since she wouldn't give up...

It was sooooo funny to see this little 10lb dog take on a 50lb dog... no one was hurt but it taught us to not take Penny for granted....

 

[shelleyd2008]

What a nasty, rainy day!!
I've almost got the guinea pigs' new cage finished, all it needs is the coroplast in the top section, a ladder to go from bottom to top, and a top to cover it all so nothing can get them (since they'll be outside still), and it will be finished. But the bottom is almost completely covered, except for a 14"x14" section left open where their ladder will go.

When I went to take Cris out to the bus this morning, there was water standing in the yard. The guinea pigs have been 'inside' a wire dog crate all summer long, out in the grass. Their shelter has been a plastic 'castle', and plastic on the top of their cage. With the standing water on the ground, I figured it was time to move them to someplace dry. Even if they have something over top of them, it's so wet that they can't be dry! They weren't quite sure about it, but I'm sure they'll get used to the idea. Cris was worried about how they'll eat, since they've had free-access to grass all summer. I suppose we can still put them in their dog crate when it's not threatening to wash everything away, there will at least be some grass out there. I'll have to eventually get some hay for them, but at least they'll be dry

 

[cthrash1]

Hi Chuck,
Amy still isn't doing well at all, she is just slowly fading away... She is starving and we can't figure out why... No blockage and nothing stuck in throat that we can tell. She even turns down meats and potatos/gravy... Everything she usually loves and can't resist. Gave her a little of the dogfood brand we used to feed her and she tried to bury it with the carpet and walked away. Seems like since she had problems with the kidney failure, everything else started falling apart. It takes all she's got to jump up on the sofa and then when she gets settled in she starts breathing hard about 4-5 breaths(not panting) like she is having a hard time breathing... She does this several times a day and even during the night. She has lost lots of weight and you can feel her hips, ribs and backbone. Hubby thinks I should just put her under so she doesn't suffer but it isn't my call as she belongs to Cortni. But it is so sad watching her starve... She has no will to get up in the morning to go out, I have to encourage her, then she'll go. This dog should be living another 6-7 yrs, she's only 9.

Your baby will start to settle down... try to find a job for her and do some agility training with her to wear her out. Old socks with a knot tied in them, or those hard rubber toys, or even a piece of an old leather belt or strip of leather. What we did with our Lab we had was, every time he would start chewing on what he shouldn't we'd take it away pop him with it with a NO at the same time then hand him one of his chew toys. Took a while but it worked eventually.

 

[Mojo Chick'n]

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I'm sorry to hear about Amy doing badly

I know how poor Cortni must feel.

 

[Mojo Chick'n]

Shelley - if I used nails on my coops (or on anything) hubby would divorce me

Screws - always use screws. Get a drill bit that screws them in and a good drill. I reccomend a corded one, not a cordless - cordless lose power too darn easily. If you have hard wood then a lot of times a cheap cordless won't even twist the screw through it.

No action at all on your chicken eggs, btw

not sure if I'm too early or what, but I'll leave them a bit longer - they dont' stink.

meri

 

[cthrash1]

Mojo Chick'n :

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I'm sorry to hear about Amy doing badly

I know how poor Cortni must feel.

I just got done talking to her as a matter of fact and I think she is ready to let Amy go if need be.​

 

[Mojo Chick'n]

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I'm sorry to hear about Amy doing badly

I know how poor Cortni must feel.

I just got done talking to her as a matter of fact and I think she is ready to let Amy go if need be.

I was ready to let Squeakers go - but it still sucked. I had her as long as I had my youngest child - she wasn't just a cat.

I'm doing better - I cleaned house like mad yesterday and it sort of "cleaned me out" too. I bought new bathroom rugs today for the bathroom - didn't even want to wash the old ones that she had accidents on

Have lots of her favorite comfort foods on hand (Cortni, I mean) and just give her lots of hugs.

 

[Mojo Chick'n]

So, I'm coming home from the store this morning, and I pass my neighbor's field, and standing between two of his Ginormous cows is the healthiest biggest coyote I've ever seen.

Wish I had had my gun

This thing looked like someone's pet dog it was so healthy looking. Up in Michigan the coyotes are smaller and skinnier.

He was pretty - but I'd still cheerfully shoot him if I caught him on my land with a gun anywhere within reach

we have a huge pack of them around here (20 or so at least).

I bought a new Christmas Tree - my old one was getting rather sorry looking.

Hubby and I were talking and calculating last night, and we figure the new fence is probably gonna cost us about 3000 dollars. We're doing woven wire and we're also re-doing the stretch down the driveway (it is covered on the grant because it is perimeter fencing, and is an upgrade from what we have).

We also discussed putting in another barn up by the milk barn - so we can put calves and cows in that, instead of right up near the house in the other barn. Hubby was talking about putting goats in that barn (yikes!)

The barn up there would also be on it's own meter (since the milk barn has a seperate meter than the house, we can tap into that) and we can plumb a line from the main water line coming in and put in a pump up there right inside the barn. The barn would be all on us, but the water line and tanks are covered in the grant, also (well, half is covered).

so, we have a lot of work to get done here (will it ever end? I'm Retired, dangitall!!)

meri