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FiFi LaFeles said :
We'll soon be sort-of getting another furry!

A couple who live nearby that we got to know through dog walking, well she died about 10 days ago. Really sad, she was only 52; it was pancreatic cancer. Anyway her husband works full time and was fretting about what would happen with their dog while he was out all day so I said he could come and stay here with us during the daytime.

It'll be a bit manic having 5 dogs again but I couldn't bear the thought of the poor bloke having to rehome his dog when he's just lost his wife, what a kick in the guts that would have been. He'd tried to find a dog walking/sitter service but there just aren't any locally

So in the next couple of days we'll be having him here for short periods to get him used to being with our unruly tribe before 'going live' .... thankfully he's not a large dog and at 8 yrs old I'm hoping he's lost his taste for chair legs etc. You are a GOOD person Miss LaFeles

23-Jan-2020 11:46:41

FiFi LaFeles said :
Anyway, far more exciting was my trip earlier to the local town to stock up on birthday cards (ten of them coming up in February - wut??)

Wandered into a Charity Shop next to the card shop and picked up a very nice red leather handbag for £3, a lovely Cambric shirt for £1 and a pair of M&S needlecord trousers in pristine condition for £2.50 (purple).

Happy Bunny I love charity shops. I resent paying full price for clothes. I can buy several new outfits for the price of one new one, and we have got seven charity shops in the small town where we live, so great for a blitz on them every now and again. You do get some pretty good label items too. My clothes get wrecked so quickly with doing the sheep and ponies so this is an ideal solution.

23-Jan-2020 15:21:28

FiFi LaFeles said :
Sheep and Ponies too! You lucky, lucky thiiiiiiing !!! Am totally jealous.

If this is too long- mods please remove .This is the story of Guiness one of our rescued sheep, it was an article published in an obscure sheep fancier magazine, similar to the ones on HIGNFY. (Guinness has gone now unfortunately) It was 13 years ago when someone gave me a lamb who was paralysed at the back through spinal abscess, and who the vets said would never walk again.
On the day that we took him to be put to sleep, as his hind legs were so completely lifeless, the vet nipped his back leg and he reacted, although they said it was a reaction to pain, not a sign that the use of his legs would return, but it was enough for us to say that we would not give up just yet, and keep trying.
Many visits to the vet, lots of different drugs, one a chemotherapy drug that could actually get into the spinal column to get rid of the infection, and very little improvement over the days, but there always was an infinitesimal change every week.
A supplement of bramble leaves every day seemed to bring down his temperature and combat the infection, and I would take him out every day with a towel underneath his belly to lift him up at the back so that he could have an hour or so eating grass and leaves of the cherry tree which he particularly liked.
Although we rent grazing for our rescued ponies, I kept the lamb (Guinness) in my porch on a bed of hay so that I could administer to him more easily, and as we live in a town you can imagine what odd looks I got from passers by when they saw me out with him on the patch of grass close by to us.
I also almost caused various traffic accidents when taking him to the vet in the back of a Mondeo as he grew bigger and they could see his head with horns looking out of the window.

23-Jan-2020 17:37:28 - Last edited on 23-Jan-2020 18:01:23 by Jenesiis

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