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[pettec63]

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yep they are good dogs around kids, raised my two kids with them too!! retained testicles is a common trait in boxers, not good to breed so glad you did the right thing!! Lots of people don't !!

 

[pettec63]

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Ya know I just had the vet out got everyone their vaccines, she didn't say anything but, my sister came out yesterday ( she works with bovine vet, her boss is my vets husband) and she asked me if I had heard of the outbreak?? I said no?? she didn't say it was in this state just said it's coming up from UT??? Ok, this is bad!!

 

[pettec63]

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At the clinic I am working at, there are multiple phone calls daily wanting information. At this point there really is no information other than don't take your horse around other horses. If you go to a rodeo, training clinic, show, etc....even without your horse, you can still carry it on your person, ie, shoes or clothes. Everyone is just being told to be careful.

Also, there are so many rumors floating around and un-truths. People are beginning to get hysterical...had a person swearing at me on the phone. I put them on hold. Another told me she heard there was a vaccination....grounds over here are being shut down too.

I am sorry for your local barn owner too. this just causes so many problems. Feel bad for her.

ok?? doesnt the 5 way cover equine herpes virus?? or is this a different strain??

also, now you know why I hated covering the front when I was a Tech and why I became a tech, people suck!!!!

 

[Breshcandra]

Thats why I picked the Boxer. My husband told me I could get a dog if it was short hair. picked the boxer because they are great family dogs. Maverick is 5 mos older then my daughter.

 

[pettec63]

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At the clinic I am working at, there are multiple phone calls daily wanting information. At this point there really is no information other than don't take your horse around other horses. If you go to a rodeo, training clinic, show, etc....even without your horse, you can still carry it on your person, ie, shoes or clothes. Everyone is just being told to be careful.

Also, there are so many rumors floating around and un-truths. People are beginning to get hysterical...had a person swearing at me on the phone. I put them on hold. Another told me she heard there was a vaccination....grounds over here are being shut down too.

I am sorry for your local barn owner too. this just causes so many problems. Feel bad for her.

ok?? doesnt the 5 way cover equine herpes virus?? or is this a different strain??

also, now you know why I hated covering the front when I was a Tech and why I became a tech, people suck!!!!

I am so sorry Teresa you have to deal with that, people just don't use their heads!! It's easier to freak out and blame someone else than pull their heads out and lay low!!!

 

[pettec63]

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CUTE!!!!!

 

[pettec63]

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Ya know I just had the vet out got everyone their vaccines, she didn't say anything but, my sister came out yesterday ( she works with bovine vet, her boss is my vets husband) and she asked me if I had heard of the outbreak?? I said no?? she didn't say it was in this state just said it's coming up from UT??? Ok, this is bad!!

well for me I'm not sweating it too much I don't take my horse out so and although I was planning to do some trail riding this year, I'll just lay low till it blows over!!

 

[Breshcandra]

she got introduced to dogs with a big kiss as soon as she came in the door. I have pictures of them sleeping on the same couch.

 

[cheryl98117]

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At the clinic I am working at, there are multiple phone calls daily wanting information. At this point there really is no information other than don't take your horse around other horses. If you go to a rodeo, training clinic, show, etc....even without your horse, you can still carry it on your person, ie, shoes or clothes. Everyone is just being told to be careful.

Also, there are so many rumors floating around and un-truths. People are beginning to get hysterical...had a person swearing at me on the phone. I put them on hold. Another told me she heard there was a vaccination....grounds over here are being shut down too.

I am sorry for your local barn owner too. this just causes so many problems. Feel bad for her.

Oh so do I. She's a great gal, and I have quite a bit of respect for her. Im hopeing that it will blow pass and she can get back to business and life as normal. There is one confirmed case of EHV in Bremerton. Im not panicking, I havnt taken my horses anywhere but on the local trails so far this year, oh and the beach once. lol I am perfectly happy poking around my moms field. I prefer to ride without an audience!

I dont exactlty look pretty up in the saddle, a little to much extra padding here and there. lol

I think the biggest personal bummer about this situation for me is that the benefit rodeo that I was going to volunteer for is probably going to be shut down for the season. I thought there was no vaccine, that this is a mutated strain, so the vaccine that we have available will not be affective against this particular strain. I try to not pay to much attention to the rumors flying around, I get weekly updates from my Vet, he's awsome at keeping his clients updated on whats going on around here. So I tend to take the rumors with a grain of salt, and if I feel there might be something to them, I just email or call the office.

I think right now the best thing for everyone to do is biosecurity. Seperate water buckets for each horse, same with brushes, tack, paddocks, ect. Thats what Im doing, plus obviously not taking them to public show grounds, or really anywhere where large numbers of equines are. My three, soon to be four, are pretty closed off from outside sources, all except my cousins horse who comes over on some weekends. But we are even stopping that, just to be cautious. Im not overly worried about the new gelding who will be coming home in a couple weeks, as I am his caretaker at his private barn. So I know where he goes, and how he is treated.

It really came as quite a shock to everyone around here. Alot of people were just plainly blindsided by this, and to find out yesterday that we have a confirmed case here in Kitsap county. Well precautions are definately being taken. And I am glad that they are.

Sorry that your having to deal with freaked out clients, and there really is no reason for someone to curse at you over this. Its not like you opened a vial of this crud. So again sorry that your getting brow beat over the phone. Thats not cool.

 

[Stumpfarmer]

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My old dog for once let me sleep until my alarm went off; I'm at the "I forgot to put my toast down, oops" stage of the morning.

Luckily I get to sit in the car off and on today, so maybe I won't be quite so tired tomorrow: I was washing bedding yesterday (our expensive and highly recommended mattress cover feels like Hardy Backer about four days after it's washed: a new one is on this weekend's list), emptied the construction zone for painting, and spent a couple of hours working on the big damask rose. That was after walking an extra half-mile Tuesday to see if there was anything worth photographing up on the hill (not so much) after walking an incremental mile and a half on concrete: the hip I messed up in November is barking at me again.

So: I-5 to Longview, Lewis and Clark Bridge to Oregon 30 to Scappoose and Joy Creek Nursery (possibly lunch in there somewhere), Cornelius Pass to the Sunset Highway to 217 (Possibly Powell's in Beaverton; less all-encompassing than Powell's downtown, but the parking's easier and it takes less time) 217 to 1-5 at Lake Oswego, South on I-5 to the Buttesville exit, which is the shortest way to Heirloom Roses, then wander south to I-5 and on to the Iris fields for photography, turn around straight up 5 to 205 to the exit for Fabric Depot and I hope some nice cornflower blue w/white stripe linen or cotton to make a summer skirt, dinner somewhere and thence home. Leaving here at 10:30.

Note this: if you can time your trip to avoid morning rush hour and are going to points south of Portland, it is almost always faster to go via Oregon 30/Cornelius Pass; it's also faster going into Portland west of the Willamette. Portland may have many advantages but its traffic is as bad as Seattle's, and there's still major freeway construction in Vancouver.

What we really need, though, is a nice friendy teleportation device with good freight handling capacity. I especially could have used that when my daughter was at UM Missoula.