Just stopping by to let you know I am not a rude person and I do come on every so often. I usually check the forum early in the morning and than, with summer here, the day really starts. I have a garden that is almost an acre so that keeps me going, Joker takes up quite a bit of time still needs lots of feedings. Also with summer here the barns need to be completely mucked out YUCK! Fences repaired and just general maintenance that couldn't get done in the winter. I think I am getting too old for this stuff. I love the summer but it sure is the busy time of the year.
A typical day...yesterday
My sad tale (pun intended) of the start of a crappy day. Our ram outside has had major, to put it nicely, elimination problems for three days. I put him in another pen thinking it may be the new pasture grass. Spoke to the Vet yesterday and he wants a sample. Well wouldn't you know I went out to the pen this morning, no ploppy mess but enough for a sample, plus to be on the safe side I figured I would get fresh. Did you ever try to wipe a Ram's butt with the handle end of a rake...I will not go into detail. (Ram is fine, no parasites, Vet figures it is the new pasture grass so he will stay in the sick pen for a few more days.
In the interim Whatever our little whatever dog decides NOT to eliminate, so my DH figured he would take her to the Vet this morning with the Ram's specimen. Well Whatever finally eliminates but it don't look good. So there goes DH with two bags of poop and the Whatever dog to the VET. (It turns out Whatever at the age of 1.5 years is loosing his front baby teeth.)
Also not to be left out, Joker, my shadow, eliminates every time he sneezes. I swear I just have to pump his tail and out it comes. I wonder if God minds that I am praying to Him for dingle berries for Joker. Other than that Joker is doing great. He follows me everywhere, in the house he wears a diaper just to be on the safe side. I am trying though to ignore him as much as I can because soon he will be with the critters, not real soon. He is eating hay and oats, I fixed a box with open sides for his hay and today he decided that that is better to sleep in instead of on towels. Praises, praises no more washing clothes every other day just keep stocking the newspapers. I put him outside in a cage without a bottom so he could get some fresh air and sun and eat some grass, well he cried and he cried so I finally put Cherokee in the cage with him and he settled right down. That Cherokee is a wonder, such a mild mannered good natured dog I have never seen before.
So guys that is my crappy day story. You sure do rely on checking elimination matters to see ifn you got a sick critter or not.
Footnote....Vet's fee for two specimens, dog checkup all of $10.00...country Vets you have got to love them, plus he does make house calls.
Now aren't you glad I don't post all the time.....................
Nay, good post. Reality bites. I'm up to my eyeballs in doo-doo fumes this month, with a litter of 6 week old pups in the spare bedroom. I was getting gassed to death [my dears, 8 pups make 8 poo-poos, 3x a day and pee continuously..]. I aimed a fan into the room from the door, and opened the door on the other side. The fan has a shutter that keeps the breeze to the left, the pups' pen is to the right in the room. Before, when I opened the door, the air coming in would push in, and contain all the fumes in the bedroom and living room. Now, the fan gets all the bad air going the right direction, OUT...
LMAO as I read your post. DH said yesterday that the computer room smelled a little funny, "Honey, we have a lamb in a cage who isn't potty trained", DUH!!!!!
That really is a "poopy" day. lol!!! And i thought my poopy days were bad....Somedays at work it seems like every dog gets nervous and decides to poop on my table....lol
