Horse Updates and other news.

It was a good day!  It was a busy day.  It was a snowy day. It was a good day to have 4-wheel drive.  I woke up this morning and looked out the sliding glass doors to see big flakes of snow coming down and piling up quite quickly.  Munchie had her vet appointment at 9:30 so I was hoping the roads would be clear but the time I had to leave at 9:15.  Not to be, but with careful driving and my big tank of a car we made it just fine.

Munchie was NOT happy.  How can a cat fly all the way to Maine from Florida and not make a peep but yowl all the way to the vet's office every time we go?  I tried singing to her, I tried sticking my fingers in the carrier, you name it but nothing worked.  When we got there and checked in she quieted right down and enjoyed watching the cage of finches that hung above her on the wall.

We had a long wait but I enjoyed the Great Dane named Grace and the Airdale named Chester who were on either side of me in the waiting area and were very friendly sorts.  Grace had pulled out a toe nail and was in for a check up and Chester was having blood work for some reason.  Munchie ignored both of them, pretending she didn't even see them.

She got her three shots and we headed back home.  She was a good girl and didn't even budge when she got her shots.  She weighs a little over 9 lbs.  Noodles is doing great and finished his meds today! Yippee!

Next I had to head up to the stable to meet with the horse vet and the farrier.  Nick's stitches were taken out and the vet said everything looked really good but he has to have one more week of stall rest before I can start hand walking him.  No more bandages, thankyouverymuch!  Skipper had a check up and his feet trimmed some more and was walking very nicely without any pain it would seem.  Stu (vet) cut his bute back to 1/2 gram once a day for five days and we will see how he is then.  Kevin (farrier) put the pinchers on his feet and there was no sign of discomfort........go figure!  Possibly the rotation in his feet was from an old case of laminitis.  We will know better in another week or so but at this point it looks GOOD!

The other issue is still a mystery.  Stu has his opinion and I hope he is right.  Maybe this is an isolated incident where his feet hurt when he moved just right, slipped, fell, panicked which produced the thrashing, got to his feet and settled down.  I don't know. His heart rate was good when they checked him when we got to the vet's office the day of the incident and was good today.  He was bright eyed and alert.  We will wait for the blood work to come back this week and then there is more blood work that can be done to check a few more things.  Both ponies are too fat so are having chopped carrots instead of their handful of grain twice a day.

Next Kipper and Nick got their feet trimmed.  Nick's back leg didn't seem to bother him at all when Kevin worked on him.  He was being very careful with him so as to not injure anything.  Kipper tried to bite him on the behiney while Kevin was trimming his feet.  We call him Jaws as he does like to nibble!  So that's where everything stands for now...........to be continued for sure.

No one got the song right!  If you Google 'where oh where has my little dog gone'  it comes up as:  oh where oh where has my little dog gone, oh where oh where can he be?  With his ears cut short and his tail cut long, oh where oh where can he be?  A couple of you were very close but no one hit it right on the head.  Guess I will have to look things over again and see who came the closest..............to be continued..........

Okay, I have another contest for you.  Who can pick me out of this school photo?  First one to correctly pick me out will recieve a table topper from me.  It will be either Christmas, horsey or something else like spring or dogs/cats, whatever you want.  Good luck !