He was feeling poorly until this afternoon. We went out to Tufts this am to pick up some heart pills because I was out and now he will be on 3 a day instead of 2. I'm hoping that picks him up a bit. While at Tufts a guy came over to talk to us and he barely whined at him, but a few hrs later we were picking up a sheep and someone he knew was there and he was non stop talking to her. We napped this afternoon and he just tried to beg my whole dinner and he is throwing toys at me again. So I should be able to sleep tonight and not stay up and worry about him.
Going outside now to work cows. The little cows are great to build my confidence and Kips. The new pup will get to work these as soon as he gets here. fun
Edge got stepped on and rolled and he ran a cow into a fence and it broke the fence post. Geez he's a bulldozer.
Kip did well. But if a cow looks at him even 30 ft away he wants to turn tail and run. Of course he does that for all stock except maybe ducks so I can't blame the cows.
The sheep and goats got into my garden and ate most of the weeds, the peppers, the beans but left the tomatoes and the zuke.
Thursday, June 30, 2016
Dually
Dually is having a bad night. So of course I am wondering if it's the last night. He has been having a great last couple of weeks. He was alert and active throughout the clinic and the trial and today my sister and her dog came to visit and he was happy to see them and followed Sadie around the yard. We drove out to Tufts to pick up some meds but of course they put them up incorrectly so I am supposed to go back out first thing this am. On the way home he did not want to lie down but he rested his head on the dash and stood up almost falling down several times. When I got in bed he did not want to come upstairs. He finally came up after I insisted but he stood around and sorta looked at me out of the corner of his eye. He came on the bed when I asked but did not feel like giving kisses and soon jumped off. He is awake this am but he has not gotten up yet. It's early for anybody I guess.
Is he going to rally? I dont' know. But I don't have arrangements if he does not. Annie has changed practices and she is no longer close by. She will come and do it if I can get in touch with her but I don't have her home number and she is not always on facebook to message. There is a mobile vet that I can call but I have never used her and there is my large animal vet who is close by and I think he would do it for me. He's ok with large animals but not sure about dogs.
NO suffering allowed. He's been too good a friend and very very special to me. He has taken me to places I never imagined I would go and allowed me to make friends who are all very dear to me. Dually has opened doors that would forever have been closed.
Is he going to rally? I dont' know. But I don't have arrangements if he does not. Annie has changed practices and she is no longer close by. She will come and do it if I can get in touch with her but I don't have her home number and she is not always on facebook to message. There is a mobile vet that I can call but I have never used her and there is my large animal vet who is close by and I think he would do it for me. He's ok with large animals but not sure about dogs.
NO suffering allowed. He's been too good a friend and very very special to me. He has taken me to places I never imagined I would go and allowed me to make friends who are all very dear to me. Dually has opened doors that would forever have been closed.
Monday, June 6, 2016
Barn Hunt
I spent all day at a barnhunt yesterday. Dually had 2 senior runs and Edge had 2 Master run. In Dually's first run he found 2 rats and started to paw at a tube. I was waiting to see more commitment and the judge told me I had to call it or call him off. I was thrown off guard and I called it and it was just a tube. Ok Hmmm on to the next run. 4 rats and we are looking hard. He finds the first 3 and we are searching for the last one and he finally finds it and I call it with 1/10 of a second to spare. 16 dogs in that class and only 3 q'd and none in the first class. I wonder if there was something wrong with the hay.
Edge found 3 rats in his class and I kept looking and we timed out. My Bad. The 2nd class he found 3 rats and I know he had covered the whole area so I said Clear and we were right! Got a leg. Edge is very accurate. I found this weekend that I need to stay back and not point or ask anything. If I ask if it's a rat then they both assume I know what I am talking about and pounce out it. So I am leaving it totally up to them and that worked a lot better. I did not stay for awards and got home at 9 pm anyway.
Not sure when the next trial will be
Edge found 3 rats in his class and I kept looking and we timed out. My Bad. The 2nd class he found 3 rats and I know he had covered the whole area so I said Clear and we were right! Got a leg. Edge is very accurate. I found this weekend that I need to stay back and not point or ask anything. If I ask if it's a rat then they both assume I know what I am talking about and pounce out it. So I am leaving it totally up to them and that worked a lot better. I did not stay for awards and got home at 9 pm anyway.
Not sure when the next trial will be
Tuesday, May 31, 2016
OMG
I got my lawn tractor back to day for a whopping $375. It runs great and it should for that price. they were supposed to call me before they did major work on it because I might have junked it. Too late now. So I started to mow my chest high grass. I got the front yard done and the back yard and I started to do the path back to the arena. It was very thick and very high. I almost got it done but as I was turning the tractor around on the narrow path, it fell off and rolled backwards into the dropoff. Of course I can't get it out without a chain which I can't seem to locate. The tractor started today and I can use it to pull out the lawn tractor if I can borrow a chain.
I took a nap this afternoon because I was up so much last night worrying about something dumb like the tractor.
Good news.. Que is pregnant with 3 puppies. I'll take a black one please LOL>
I took a nap this afternoon because I was up so much last night worrying about something dumb like the tractor.
Good news.. Que is pregnant with 3 puppies. I'll take a black one please LOL>
3:30 and wide awake Yay
Ok yes I do have something on my mind. It's my tractor which I could not get started today. I NEED my tractor to work. I have 4 yds of mulch to spread and I can't get cows if I can't move the hay. Anyway Nat and Joe came running up for me and Joe got it started but he thinks it probably wont' start again today. He's going to research it but who knows how long that will take. He thinks it might be a glow plug problem and that makes sense to me because the glow plug light used to stay on for about 3 secs and now it's 1 sec.. So that concern transferred into a bad dream where I could not get my truck to start. Fortunately it's just a dream.
The past few days Dually has been eating really well. No begging on my part. And he is feeling much better since he threw that toy? up. Who knows how long that had been in his gut. He is eating total raw now and I hope I can transition the other 2 economically to the same food. They sure do like it.
Also the past few days I have been battling with the carpenter bees that have been eating away at my house for a few yrs. I had taken the head in the sand approach but I finally decided after they started a new set of holes over the bathroom window that enough was enough. I ordered some on line poison for them from a company called "DO IT YOURSELF PEST CONTROL". It's very potent stuff. I sprayed it over the wood first and then they gave me a puffer to puff a poison powder in the holes. I hope it works. The little buggers are really bold flying down to hover and stare at me when I am out looking at their handywork. die bee die. They are also eating my shed out back and when I sprayed out there I disturbed a bunch of bats and I'm sure the poison did not do them any good.
This is the first year I have more grass than my livestock can eat. Of course this is the first year I have only had 11 head. I leave them out on the arena all day and in by the barn at night. They have not been on any of the other little pastures and some of the grass is waist high as it it in my front yrd because my lawn tractor is NOT BACK YET.
Today I was going to have a student come and help me with stuff, but I think it's going to be too hot and I will postpone her till maybe Thurs. She can't some until the heat of the afternoon and I am not going to kill myself spreading and hoeing mulch.
The past few days Dually has been eating really well. No begging on my part. And he is feeling much better since he threw that toy? up. Who knows how long that had been in his gut. He is eating total raw now and I hope I can transition the other 2 economically to the same food. They sure do like it.
Also the past few days I have been battling with the carpenter bees that have been eating away at my house for a few yrs. I had taken the head in the sand approach but I finally decided after they started a new set of holes over the bathroom window that enough was enough. I ordered some on line poison for them from a company called "DO IT YOURSELF PEST CONTROL". It's very potent stuff. I sprayed it over the wood first and then they gave me a puffer to puff a poison powder in the holes. I hope it works. The little buggers are really bold flying down to hover and stare at me when I am out looking at their handywork. die bee die. They are also eating my shed out back and when I sprayed out there I disturbed a bunch of bats and I'm sure the poison did not do them any good.
This is the first year I have more grass than my livestock can eat. Of course this is the first year I have only had 11 head. I leave them out on the arena all day and in by the barn at night. They have not been on any of the other little pastures and some of the grass is waist high as it it in my front yrd because my lawn tractor is NOT BACK YET.
Today I was going to have a student come and help me with stuff, but I think it's going to be too hot and I will postpone her till maybe Thurs. She can't some until the heat of the afternoon and I am not going to kill myself spreading and hoeing mulch.
Friday, May 27, 2016
Dually
I spoon fed him yesterday morning and he did swallow unlike the day before. He ate chicken necks by himself last night. We'll what happens this morning . He does not like to eat in the am much anyway. But much and nothing are 2 different things.
I spent the morning yesterday out in the garden with Dually. I cleaned it up and planted all my tomatoes, peppers,beans and zucchini. Only a matter of time before the weeds take it over. Dually spent the morning watching the sheep. When I took a break, I went out with him and sat in a chair and had him walk up on them and push them away from the center pen. He was very keen to do that.. Because I have been keeping him so close to me and taking him everywhere, everytime I leave the house without him he screams and runs around like a madman. I went in the bathroom yesterday and he thought he lost me. back and forth from the front door to the back door at a full run until I could get his attention.
Today I may start on the 4 yrds of mulch I had delivered. The tractor will help.
I spent the morning yesterday out in the garden with Dually. I cleaned it up and planted all my tomatoes, peppers,beans and zucchini. Only a matter of time before the weeds take it over. Dually spent the morning watching the sheep. When I took a break, I went out with him and sat in a chair and had him walk up on them and push them away from the center pen. He was very keen to do that.. Because I have been keeping him so close to me and taking him everywhere, everytime I leave the house without him he screams and runs around like a madman. I went in the bathroom yesterday and he thought he lost me. back and forth from the front door to the back door at a full run until I could get his attention.
Today I may start on the 4 yrds of mulch I had delivered. The tractor will help.
Wednesday, May 25, 2016
Dually
Dually has been feeling pretty good and I thought I had his eating down to a science, but today he maybe overdid it or something and he at a couple piece of pork this am (not much for him) but tonight he would not eat anything. I tried to hand feed him and he would not swallow it, but just kept spitting it out. I' ve been taking him in the car with me to visit my sister and he gets out and goes in the house and plays with her dogs toys and then we come home. Tonight he went out and did some running and that could have been what has set him off tonight. He so wants to run. I have to manage that better. I hope I get a second chance.
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