Breeding season is winding down as the stud farms stop collecting and the heat rises. Fingers crossed for a baby for Bella when we check in a few weeks.
I go out and hang with the chickens three times a day, every single day. Well, every single day except when Zac has an away game and even on those days it is twice. I go and feed them their first meal when the sun comes up which is currently about 6:15-6:30ish. I then go out at noon and give them their grubbly’s and collect eggs and finally at the end of the my work day I give them their evening meal and collect a few more eggs. They do have alfalfa and grass hay available to them at all times now that the garden is gone and they are happy chickens.
The grubbly feeding is their favorite time by far. As soon as they see me come out the back door of the clinic they all start running to the corner of the fence in the garden and then follow me along the fence and then fight to get through the one hole and rush through the coop to the larger area when I feed and they jump on my bucket and swarm all around me squawking and rushing around to try and get as many grubs as they can.
I have a coffee cup in the grubbly bucket and even though I now have three times the number of chickens, they still only get one coffee cup. I have it so that one bucket lasts a month and it is on autoship so they don’t get any more than one cup or I run out and they don’t get their noon time snack and I feel bad for them and I don’t like to feel bad for chickens.
When I get done throwing out the grubblys I then go and clean their water dishes and fill them with fresh water. Chickens are dirty creatures and they like to stand in their water and it is usually disgusting and dirty with rocks in it, mostly due to the frankenchickens, and I dump and rinse and refill at least once a day if not twice. It never fails that as soon as I go over to the water bowls there is half a dozen chickens that leave their grubbly hunt and come over to the water bowls and stand around the water bowls waiting for something good to go their way.
They peck at the water that I dump out and they gath
Can you imagine being born someplace where no one cared about you, no one wanted you, no one even knew you existed? Can you imagine struggling to get any little bit of milk from your starving mom and having to scavenge for leftover rottenness that was left behind by bigger stronger animals? The life of a stray, feral, unwanted dog on the reservation is a life of hell and life that few outside of the reservation rescue animal groups have any concept about.
This young dog was brought in by GART after being found being attacked by a group of dogs. The initial people on site were going to kill the dog when the rescue came and took it and brought it to us.
She is young, less than a year, she is currently blind and I am not sure that we will be able to reverse it and I have no idea how or why as she is a stray dog that came to us off of the reservation. She has tick fever that is being treated and she is shy but so badly wants to be loved! She needs someone to love her! She needs a home as do the two other male dogs that we have that came to us as strays from the reservation.
If you have been looking for a dog that is special in a different way then the breed that it is, come check out our reservation dogs that need love and need a home. As an owner of two of them I can tell you that nothing will love you more than a res dog!!
When life sits on you, never give up!
There have been many times in my life where I wanted to quit veterinary medicine. To give up because it is hard and exhausting and people expect so much. To give up because I failed and it felt like too much to overcome. To give up because someone had so much hate in their heart that they wanted to destroy me when things turned out different than expected. To quit because I just didn’t feel like I could do it one more day.
But I have not because I refuse to become another statistic! And in that I have grown stronger and better and more able to hold up when it gets hard. More able to struggle from under the crushing load.
No matter how overwhelming life feels, there is always a way to keep going! Don’t let life crush you. Fight for becoming free! Grow stronger! It is worth it. Never give up!
Thank you to my amazing staff for the thoughtful Valentines office decorations. Without all of you amazing people there is no way I could do all that I need to do. Thank you for putting up with me and picking me up when I fall and standing beside me when I am struggling and going on this journey with me. I am the most blessed of all people!
It is National Dog Day! Share your dogs with us!
Update tour! It’s getting closer!
Updated video for all of you who haven’t been in for awhile.