Newsy Stuff
Not sure how much of this I really wanted to say out loud - you know how that jinxes a person...
I had my thyroid lump scanned and then scanned/biopsied and waited for results and NOT CANCER. yay!
I had Enid's huge flat lump on her rib/diaphragm area xrayed and due to position and blah blah blah, what I heard was NOT CANCER. yay!
Yoda's ataxia was getting alarming and my vet has been on a rapid learning curve with meds and epilepsy and we are now trying to wean Yoda off Potassium Bromide. He is on a liquid form with a .25ml reduction every 2 weeks with a starting point of 2ml. So looking forward to having Yoda back in the land of people soon - yay!
We sold 2 rams and 1 ewe (lambs) at the Woodburn Stock Auction last week for a nice price, kept 1 ram for us to eat, and kept the breeding ram. So now we just have to butcher tomorrow, Reggie is in with his girls again and no more multi-barn separation and feeding antics and attempts by rams to crawl thru fences that even Jill can't get thru just to get to the girls (in season). This is another yay!
Took the dogs out for a run in the pasture yesterday afternoon - Enid's paw seems good after almost a month of limping and regrowing most of one pad that she sliced off somewhere. The sheep were not locked up but the last time I did this, the dogs didn't have any interaction so I thought cool, let's try it again. Well, Jill appears to understand balance and Enid appears to be a driver (Yoda is still an idiot for a couple months more) - goodness knows what she has a "touch of" in her ancestry. Jill managed to lift the wild ewes who are not dog-broke with their wilder ram, drive them with Enid up to the barn, Jill cut them off at the turn around the machine shed, held her point with her head focused and excited and bum in the air and front legs spread, the sheep turned and then Jill and Enid drove them to their barn and when I finally caught up with them all, the sheep were inside and Jill was standing outside the door looking at me with a big shit-eating grin.
Of course, I had no control and gave no direction since I was too far away and Jill isn't trained anyway - 1 lesson and 1 clinic. Not sure if I have a right to be proud of her but I am nonetheless. YAY! YAY! YAY!
This is a mild version of how Jill looked (thank you Heather) except more down in front and much happier and intense. She also wasn't nearly that close. I saw her come around and turn and stop in front, and those sheep just stopped in their tracks as they were racing around the shed.
Another yay! - I called Jill to me from in front of the barn doors and she came fast and direct - (we have recall issues, especially if there is fun to be had and what is more fun than herding sheep?)
What a good week it has been for me... (Yes Jill also did the full height teeter several times yesterday at the FG barn in spite of refusing to look at it, let along touch it, on Tuesday night in Sherwood).
I had my thyroid lump scanned and then scanned/biopsied and waited for results and NOT CANCER. yay!
I had Enid's huge flat lump on her rib/diaphragm area xrayed and due to position and blah blah blah, what I heard was NOT CANCER. yay!
Yoda's ataxia was getting alarming and my vet has been on a rapid learning curve with meds and epilepsy and we are now trying to wean Yoda off Potassium Bromide. He is on a liquid form with a .25ml reduction every 2 weeks with a starting point of 2ml. So looking forward to having Yoda back in the land of people soon - yay!
We sold 2 rams and 1 ewe (lambs) at the Woodburn Stock Auction last week for a nice price, kept 1 ram for us to eat, and kept the breeding ram. So now we just have to butcher tomorrow, Reggie is in with his girls again and no more multi-barn separation and feeding antics and attempts by rams to crawl thru fences that even Jill can't get thru just to get to the girls (in season). This is another yay!
Took the dogs out for a run in the pasture yesterday afternoon - Enid's paw seems good after almost a month of limping and regrowing most of one pad that she sliced off somewhere. The sheep were not locked up but the last time I did this, the dogs didn't have any interaction so I thought cool, let's try it again. Well, Jill appears to understand balance and Enid appears to be a driver (Yoda is still an idiot for a couple months more) - goodness knows what she has a "touch of" in her ancestry. Jill managed to lift the wild ewes who are not dog-broke with their wilder ram, drive them with Enid up to the barn, Jill cut them off at the turn around the machine shed, held her point with her head focused and excited and bum in the air and front legs spread, the sheep turned and then Jill and Enid drove them to their barn and when I finally caught up with them all, the sheep were inside and Jill was standing outside the door looking at me with a big shit-eating grin.
Of course, I had no control and gave no direction since I was too far away and Jill isn't trained anyway - 1 lesson and 1 clinic. Not sure if I have a right to be proud of her but I am nonetheless. YAY! YAY! YAY!
This is a mild version of how Jill looked (thank you Heather) except more down in front and much happier and intense. She also wasn't nearly that close. I saw her come around and turn and stop in front, and those sheep just stopped in their tracks as they were racing around the shed.
Another yay! - I called Jill to me from in front of the barn doors and she came fast and direct - (we have recall issues, especially if there is fun to be had and what is more fun than herding sheep?)
What a good week it has been for me... (Yes Jill also did the full height teeter several times yesterday at the FG barn in spite of refusing to look at it, let along touch it, on Tuesday night in Sherwood).