GOAT EMERGENCY!!! ~ Branch Sticking Out Doe's Chest Cavity!!
Jul 29, 2016 3:41:54 GMT
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Post by copperkid3 on Jul 29, 2016 3:41:54 GMT
Time for an update on Molly's progress. It's been just over a week and we're starting to see a pattern in her behavior...
i.e. she's beginning to get a feel for when the 'treatments' are going to be administered and is making herself scarce during
that period. I went out this morning, because I was going to be gone for a greater portion of the day and guess what? No Molly....
ANYWHERE ON THE PROPERTY!!!!!
I searched high, I searched low and walked the perimeter and was able to see every portion
of the fenced in area of the property and she was not to be found within it...seriously.
Gone, vanished, as into thin air. And yet I knew that she couldn't have gotten out....was almost
fearing that I'd find a bloated carcass floating in the pond or the stream on my later return.
*ETA: The ONLY place that I didn't think about until later,
was up under the front porch, where the orphan twins used to hang out.
So perhaps? I'll probably never know....
Once again, she missed taking her (3) pills in the morning. And I truly believe it was deliberate....
cause I was hollaring for her to come take her medicine and obviously she refused.
Although, there was at least one other goat that was missing at the same time, because I took a head count,
but haven't yet figured out which one it was. Everyone else was present and accounted for. So guess what,
when I got home this evening, the very first goat that I saw lounging inside the gate, like she hadn't a care in the world?
Yeah... right!
Of course grilling her as to her whereabouts would have done no good,
(goats never snitch on themselves or each other; some kind of goat code of conduct?)
so the next best thing to do would be to administer the very thing she hates.
PILL TIME!!! Down the hatch and don't you dare even THINK ABOUT spitting them out. Swallow them you stubborn old goat!!!
After that, it was a stroll in the park in fixing her boo-boo.... she never seems to mind being placed on her back....enough so that when I
started hearing the geese honking from within the compound just out of sight, I suddenly realized that I'd left the gate open and the rest of
the herd was taking advantage of my carelessness and trying to steal the birds' food. I jumped up from my triage area, leaving Molly on her back
and feet in the air and ran around the corner screaming some very disparaging remarks about goats and their ancestors, etc. Found the shovel and
began playing wack-a-goat on their behinds (similar as the sport of wack-a-mole, but bigger target) as they came running out the gate!!!
They never seem to tire of the game. Lord knows I do....but I keep making the same mistakes over and over again.
So I guess we know who the smarter species is.... Never mind...that was a rhetorical question.
After securing the gate...it occurred to me that I'd left Molly in a rather "interesting" position and I wondered if....well what do you know?
Sure enough....there she was in exactly the same position as I'd left her. So I hurried on back and told her what a good girl she was as
opposed to her kinfolk, although I did mutter under my breath, that she'd likely have joined the gang if she had been with them at the time
instead of being propped up on her back. After all, she's a goat too. And they simply LOVE getting into mischief if at all possible.
The wound is slowly healing, despite the fact that the bandaging isn't staying on the full 24 hours between changing....but surprisingly, there is little
dirt in or around the area. Cleaned it up again and squirted some more betadine in it and then the goop from the vet, covered with gauze pad, which is
then covered with a piece of shopping bag plastic and then several strips of adhesive tape over all of it. My roll of duct tape, had earlier, given up the ghost
and started separating between the adhesive and the silver tape part; rendering it useless, so I've gone back to the clear packing tape, which seems to hold
as well or better. A few more days and we'll be out of pills and the goop tube is half gone as well. Depending on how it looks then, we can make a decision on
whether to keep treating with further doses of betadine and continue the procedure of covering the wound, or just letting it heal the rest of the way on its' own.
Maybe some superglue to seal it further? Probably not a good idea....
i.e. she's beginning to get a feel for when the 'treatments' are going to be administered and is making herself scarce during
that period. I went out this morning, because I was going to be gone for a greater portion of the day and guess what? No Molly....
ANYWHERE ON THE PROPERTY!!!!!
I searched high, I searched low and walked the perimeter and was able to see every portion
of the fenced in area of the property and she was not to be found within it...seriously.
Gone, vanished, as into thin air. And yet I knew that she couldn't have gotten out....was almost
fearing that I'd find a bloated carcass floating in the pond or the stream on my later return.
*ETA: The ONLY place that I didn't think about until later,
was up under the front porch, where the orphan twins used to hang out.
So perhaps? I'll probably never know....
Once again, she missed taking her (3) pills in the morning. And I truly believe it was deliberate....
cause I was hollaring for her to come take her medicine and obviously she refused.
Although, there was at least one other goat that was missing at the same time, because I took a head count,
but haven't yet figured out which one it was. Everyone else was present and accounted for. So guess what,
when I got home this evening, the very first goat that I saw lounging inside the gate, like she hadn't a care in the world?
Yeah... right!
Of course grilling her as to her whereabouts would have done no good,
(goats never snitch on themselves or each other; some kind of goat code of conduct?)
so the next best thing to do would be to administer the very thing she hates.
PILL TIME!!! Down the hatch and don't you dare even THINK ABOUT spitting them out. Swallow them you stubborn old goat!!!
After that, it was a stroll in the park in fixing her boo-boo.... she never seems to mind being placed on her back....enough so that when I
started hearing the geese honking from within the compound just out of sight, I suddenly realized that I'd left the gate open and the rest of
the herd was taking advantage of my carelessness and trying to steal the birds' food. I jumped up from my triage area, leaving Molly on her back
and feet in the air and ran around the corner screaming some very disparaging remarks about goats and their ancestors, etc. Found the shovel and
began playing wack-a-goat on their behinds (similar as the sport of wack-a-mole, but bigger target) as they came running out the gate!!!
They never seem to tire of the game. Lord knows I do....but I keep making the same mistakes over and over again.
So I guess we know who the smarter species is.... Never mind...that was a rhetorical question.
After securing the gate...it occurred to me that I'd left Molly in a rather "interesting" position and I wondered if....well what do you know?
Sure enough....there she was in exactly the same position as I'd left her. So I hurried on back and told her what a good girl she was as
opposed to her kinfolk, although I did mutter under my breath, that she'd likely have joined the gang if she had been with them at the time
instead of being propped up on her back. After all, she's a goat too. And they simply LOVE getting into mischief if at all possible.
The wound is slowly healing, despite the fact that the bandaging isn't staying on the full 24 hours between changing....but surprisingly, there is little
dirt in or around the area. Cleaned it up again and squirted some more betadine in it and then the goop from the vet, covered with gauze pad, which is
then covered with a piece of shopping bag plastic and then several strips of adhesive tape over all of it. My roll of duct tape, had earlier, given up the ghost
and started separating between the adhesive and the silver tape part; rendering it useless, so I've gone back to the clear packing tape, which seems to hold
as well or better. A few more days and we'll be out of pills and the goop tube is half gone as well. Depending on how it looks then, we can make a decision on
whether to keep treating with further doses of betadine and continue the procedure of covering the wound, or just letting it heal the rest of the way on its' own.
Maybe some superglue to seal it further? Probably not a good idea....