Since mentally I only have enough bandwidth for required work, I thought I might entertain you with photos. This is Chester. He is a 2-year-old alpaca that I met a while back when Tom went to buy a used riding lawn mower (since our pastures are out of control this year with all the rain). While the men-folk did their thing, I made friends with Chester by hand-feeding him grass that he could not reach from his paddock. There were several older ones as well, but they were not as friendly, much bigger, and kind of freaked me out because …
As I’ve mentioned, Lilly’s recall at home has suffered of late, especially if she thinks she has to come inside. The problem got worse over the summer, but we seem to have turned a
corner. …
We began our celebrations of Tom’s birthday Friday with a hike. We did not know at the time that it would be the highlight of a weekend that ultimately got consumed by other things, including germs. So, consider this a “Mute Monday” …
Whew! Long day, so just a quick note about Lilly’s recovery from meningoencephalomyelitis (inflammation of the brain and lining of the brain and spinal cord) after having an adverse rabies vaccine reaction. Today, Lilly had her first recheck appointment with the team at Rocky Mountain Veterinary Neurology (housed inside the Veterinary Referral Center of Colorado).
This is Oreo — the border collie puppy who went missing for 8 days in our canyon recently. She is currently being fostered by one of our neighbors and is up for adoption from Charlie’s Place Shelter in Dumont, Colorado.
I unpublished and updated this post about the VPA ballot measure in Colorado after reading additional input from the veterinary world and seeing DVMs on Twitter, in particular, calling BS on the ballot measure’s purported goals. So, here we go again. Jump down to the section called Other Reasons to Oppose It to catch up, if you read the earlier version!
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What is a "Yellowstone Down"? I couldn't find it googling. I remember coming home years ago and my Old English Sheepdog had the end of a knee-hi nylon sticking out her butt. Vet said give her a stick of butter and put her outside. Yep that worked. He said "DON'T PULL as it could be caught in the colon. Your tennis ball felt experience reminded me of that. Taking dogs to obedience classes always used to involve choke chains that were supposed to be removed when not training/walking them. Thanks for all your good info all the time!
Basically, that totally bogus Yellowstone Down just means that you keep physically laying your dog down into a down-stay, and if they get up, you don’t say anything, you just physically lie them down again and again as along as it takes before they stop getting up. Lilly, being her amazing self, only got up a couple of times, then stayed put. The concept is based in the debunked dominance theory of wolf behavior in Yellowstone, which has no bearing on dogs at all because those original groups of wolves way back when were NOT natural family units but wolves who didn’t know each other thrown together where there was extra conflict, etc.