Category Archives: Pets

Our New Doe-lings

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It took us forever to find Boer meat goat for 4-H.  no one told us back in January that we needed to go ahead and reserve our kid before it was born or that they sold like wild fire to the other  4-h kids!

However, after going through all the Ohio listings on craigslist and googling Boer goats in Ohio and calling hundreds of people all to be told they were out of kids, I was ready to give up and then I saw someone had called while I had my phone lines all tied up.  Not only did she have two does but they also had not only a good blood line but an owner who really cared about them and their welfare.  The latter is the most important part.

If you are ever looking for good healthy well loved goats, get in contact with Cathy at Vine Hill Farm .

Woof! He is Better!

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I feel like I live at the veterinarian! Pig and I have been going about every three days now for a bandage change in hopes of saving his leg and guess what?  I think we did it!

I think he is out of the woods as far as losing his leg goes and he may not even need his toe bone amputated!  The vet said there is granulation tissue on half the toe bone!

Here is the weird thing though, I have been smelling this awful smell in my house for about the last week and it seemed to me it was coming from the bathroom.  I have been cleaning the heck out of that bathroom.

So today I am at the vets and I threw on the pants I wore yesterday and left my PJ top on because I was so sleepy (worked til 5am) .  So we are sitting in the treatment room and I smell the death funk.  I knew it had to be me so I am sniffing my shirt, shoes, socks, hands, hair……Nothing.

I sniff the dog’s fur, bury my face in and breath and he smells great.  But I still smell the death funk and then he hit me in the face with his bandaged paw, looking for some love and it about bowled me over!  The putrid stink has been his paw!  OMG and it is NORMAL!

So anyway the news is all good!

He is certainly NOT very photogenic a small black ball!

PIG

Pig in his Blue Bandage

Snip that Middle Finger

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Pig in Green

Pig in Green

I took Pig back tot he vet for a bandage change and the vet said it would appear that “granular” healing is taking place which is good since we are trying to save his leg,but since blood was unable to get6 to his “toes” due to swelling and infection, he has been losing toes at bandage change times(I am not in the room for this).

I go back to the veterinarian Friday for a bandage change(we go every three days) and also with him having not eaten after midnight because his middle toe bone is sticking out and if the healing is not also covering that bone on Friday they are going to snip off the bone and he has to be under anesthesia.

So Friday is a big day in what has become a very long healing process and one that will take a long time even after this according to the vet but Piggalis is worth it.

My Poor Little Black Pig

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My dog got a little cut on the pad of his foot last Monday.  This is what it looked like last Tuesday when we took him to the vet and looks the same today.

It really is a dog

The medicine does not seem to be helping:(

I know you cannot tell it but this is a dog.

I Swear it is

This is his hurt paw :( It is swollen about three times it’s normal size and is shaved.

OUCH

:( a close up.

My Poor Pig Dog