Damaged

Hey everyone! I've had a pretty exciting past few days. However, I have not survived completely unscathed. Last Thursday, Megan's personal dog Risa began limping all of the sudden. Distraught, Megan rushed her to a specialist and I had to perform blood work on her in half the normal amount of time. Boots, a cat here with FIV, also started to crash. He is severely anemic and getting a ton of meds now, but he's stable. Dash, the baby goat we have also was running a temperature and bleating pitifully all day. I ran the blood work and gave the goat milk of magnesia and forced him to walk around all day to help his digestion. It worked! He's now doing really well. I also became the new primary caretaker of Romo, our trailer dog.

Saturday was intense with a muscovy duck coming in with a broken humerus (part of the wing). She had the most adorable duckling with her, which we placed in the incubator to wait while his mom had surgery. Megan placed a bone pin in her wing! She recovered well and taking fine care of her little one. We also sedated a macaque to x-ray him to see if his bone pin (placed in December) is ready to take out. It's not, unfortunately, and so he'll have the pin in for another 1-3 months. Then we did a routine rabbit spay that ended up being anything but routine. Her uterus was filled with masses and we also removed a mass on her leg. We have no idea how extensive her cancer is. I hope she lives in comfort the last days of her life.

Today and tomorrow are my days off. Tomorrow I'm headed to the San Antonio Rodeo for the barrel racing competition. Heck yes!! I hope you are all doing well and e-mail me on updates of your lives. Love and miss you all lots.

Porcupine Attack

It's been a crazy few days. On Thursday night / Friday morning it SNOWED!!!! Here, in TEXAS!!!! I was so excited, I woke up at 3am to go frolic in the falling snow. Just before work at 8am I made a snow angel and a snow man that was about 3 inches high. It was the smallest dusting I've ever seen, but it was real snow! However, because it is Texas, I believe I'm the only one who was stoked about this event. Everyone had a snow day which meant ALL of the stores were closed, and the roads were barricaded. Aren't Texans funny?

Anyway, because of the snow, we were the only place with a veterinarian that day. One of our neighbors came in and his dog had been missing for 2 weeks. His face was covered in porcupine quills! Megan suspects he had those quills in for at least a week. It took us 4 hours to remove over 200 quills and recover him from surgery. Pictures are up! Sorry it's such a short post. Miss and love everyone lots. E-mail me with updates on your lives!