When you love some animals and not others and chit, chat news

Okay, it's been a bit since the last blog. There is a good reason for that, really! I just don't have anything exciting to add to what has already been published on all the other wonderful blogs out here in blogger land.

We've actually be just relaxing and taking some recoup time. We did end up taking Mo back to the vet and getting the abscess lanced, so it would drain better. Which it has been doing, along with a daily flushing of a mixture of 3Tbsp. non iodized salt to a gallon of warm water with enough Providone Iodine added to look like a weak tea. This is then drawn up into a 60cc syringe and then pushed out into the wound as quickly as possible to give it the best flushing effect. It's been working and the swelling has gone down quite a bit.

When bringing Mo home from the vet we noticed a tree down along the bottom fence line and one ready to come down, thanks to a beaver. Yesterday, thankfully Cortney noticed, yet another tree down and this time it was laying on the fence. We quickly moved the cows to the back pasture, so there weren't any chances of them getting out where the fence was pushed down by the fallen tree. Thankfully the tree was small enough it just stretched the wires, not breaking any, although it did pull one post in a good amount. This weekend Mike will have to push the post back into place, brace it and tamp it in good again, then re -tighten the loosened wires. Today I'll be going to the local town fur trader to see if they can help us by getting a trapper interested in coming down and looking at our problem. Besides the beaver we also have a fox, who is now stalking poultry.
These are a few of the neighbors free range chickens, in our yard foraging, we don't mind. Guess what the fox has been seen in the middle of the day stealing one or two of their chickens, pretty sly or so this fox thinks. It seems that all the wildlife is becoming very well acclimated to being in residential areas. We have seen deer( of course by the droves), raccoon, skunk, beaver, fox, grizzly cub, black bear cub( neighbors got a picture), a young bull moose, hawks, Bald and Golden Eagles, owls and Red Headed Buzzards, ducks( many varieties), Canada geese, Swans, Pelicans, Whooping cranes, Blue Heron, Sand Hill Cranes and multitudes of various breeds of birds, to many to mention. I've also heard tell, that just a few miles as the crow flies, to the East of our place there have been wolves sighted. We do also have coyotes, although we've not seen them, we hear them and in winter they get bold and come in closer and closer. We not only hear them but many of the feral cats begin to disappear as well. Speaking of cats......
here is Callie recouping from the wee... few hours she braved the cold to hunt mice, now she's in her toasty, warm,cozy spot behind the wood stove.
Casino enjoying his new comfy, cushy new bed. Tuffy sleeps in his crate, it's his choice, and Mike took pity and bought him a dog pillow to place inside the crate for a softer bed than just an old blanket. Well.... you wouldn't think animals would get hurt feeling but Casino did. He pouted around for several days and even went in and tried to steal Tuffy's bed. Mike of course ordered a dog pillow for Casino, even though he already has a fake lambskin bed now! When Mike brought the new dog pillow in the house it was so...... funny he was whining, smiling and wiggling all over he just knew it was for him. Now he's a happy pillow dog! You ought to hear him moan when he finally gets laid down, it's like he's saying," Ahhhh, this is the life!" Mike says all the time and I agree, " There isn't an animals on this place that isn't spoiled plum rotten." The truth of the matter is that the animals and there needs come well before our own and isn't that the way it should be?

May your day be blessed.