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Our small farm consists of mostly rescued animals which are many different species and backgrounds, both good and bad, handicapped and "normal".

Some showed up and never left. Welcome to our farm!

30/05/2025

This guy was SUPER unhappy about being put in the crate to go get his cotton balls chopped off. He screamed bloody murder the minute I got him in the crate til the time the vet took him out (it was LOUD). But when the vet went to put him in their cage, he flipped out and took off, started scaling walls, scratching vet techs, getting stuck on a really high cabinet, and somewhere in the process he declawed himself of one nail. They did finally get him situated and were able to get the cotton balls taken care of, closed up his toe and gave him an antibiotic. When I picked him he screamed the whole way home. This guy is such a turd. I just hope he will be nice to the other freeloaders now.

11/05/2025

Dave came out to say "Hi!" today. Sometimes it's in the form of a snek, sometimes a spooder. Either way, my helper wishes he would choose different critters. 😂😂😂

20/04/2025

Today we tried a banana. Sheriff Toaster was a huge fan (you can see he's got a little on the sides of his mouth LOL). He kept climbing in my lap to get to the banana in my hand. Oreo was also very interested but she's not as much of a climber as her brother so she politely ate hers next to me. I'm working on teaching them how to eat from hands without chomping off parts of the hand, which is practice for all parties. Even though these guys toofers are still pretty small, it doesn't mean they won't pack a punch!

They are doing really well with all the handling. Sheriff Toaster likes all cuddles and Oreo prefers not to be touched on the head, but seems fine anywhere else. Fair enough girly. They sure are are cute. 🥰

14/04/2025

So this Samson. He's been hanging around the house for many months, but just recently stated "asking" me for food. I know he's been eating food out of the outdoor cats bowls during the day because I could see him on my camera. Then he started coming up to me when I'd go outside and meow at me and I'd give him food and he was happy. He lets me get close to him, almost pets but not quite.

People are convinced it's Dave sending me cats. He should really stop. I don't need anymore. I really really really don't.

13/04/2025

Piglets!!! 😍😍😍 🐷🐽🐖

I'm keeping some piglets on the farm for my helper. He brought them over today and they are SSOOOO cute. I get piglet cuddles! ☺️

The rest of the farm was enjoying the sunshine. The air was a touch cool but the sun was nice and warm. Apparently laying in the empty water tub was the best spot for one in particular. And Tim has Dave hair don't care going on LOL.

08/04/2025

Today, I made the difficult decision to let Charles cross the rainbow bridge. 🌈 The treatment we tried wasn't helping. I know it doesn't seem like maybe I gave it enough time but the problem was even with the appetite stimulant and the meds, it wasn't getting better. He still wouldn't eat and giving him meds was clearly stressing him out. I was able to get them down using butter and I was putting food on his tongue and he would just spit it out. Even getting some peanut butter in him didn't perk him up. He was having trouble getting up and down and he lost 30 lbs, which is not good for a dog that should be 120-140 lbs. I could see he was miserable and I figured maybe it was time while he could still move. 😭

It never gets easier having to do this no matter how many times I've done it before. I know Dave and I gave him a better life than what he had before we took him and Darwin in but it just seems like the time with them was too short. It's an unfortunate part of having giant breeds. Now he is at peace and he's with Darwin. Dave will take good care of them. ❤️

04/04/2025

Ugh. This goober has been struggling since he came home from his first vet visit a few weeks ago. He's been going back and forth on eating and no eating and when he did eat, it wasn't much and it would only last a couple of days. We tried giving him anti-nausea medication and probiotics but it wasn't helping to encourage him to eat or eat more. He started eating his dog biscuits last Friday, then over the next 4 days would eat some Fresh Pet food, a little bit of dry food, and more biscuits. Then he just stopped. He's lost so much weight so I called the vet again and we decided to check his blood work and it's not great. He has a lot of elevated levels of various things, and the worse is his kidneys. So the thought is he either has a kidney infection or is going into kidney failure. 😔

So we have an appetite stimulant and antibiotics and we're going to see if that perks him up and he eats. If this doesn't work though, we may have to consider quality of life which sucks. But as a giant breed with a life expectancy of 8-10 years, he might just be getting to that point because he will be 8 this year. Cross our paws this works ❤️

19/03/2025

This goober decided that I have nothing better to do with my time and money than spend it at the vet. 😒

He apparently ate something that appears to be causing an obstruction. I knew something was up when he stopped eating, then stopped taking treats. Lastly he threw up a bunch of water and I knew it was time to get to the vet. Definitely not bloat, and the vet can see something on the xray so he gets to have fun with a barium treatment. Hopefully that works because I'd rather not have to deal with a surgery.

03/03/2025

Even though it was a little chilly out today the sun was nice and toasty according to the critters.

23/02/2025

So I found this little spicy kitteh next to the farmhouse today. It's not one of mine. He/she wasn't moving but was hissing and growling at me. It was obvious he/she was hurt because it would have run the minute it saw me if not. While trying to get him/her into a crate without injury, he/she did try to run but it was obvious there was a hip/leg injury. Ugh. So off to the critter ER we go. I couldn't let the little one be in pain. There is no microchip but I'm not surprised considering he was the farm and most cats around here are feral or strays. Didn't have this on my Saturday bingo card of fun. I think I need to get another job to pay for these needy animals.

17/02/2025

Another fun day on the farm yesterday. I can't wait for this weather to be over. It sucks when the only free time you have to work on stuff is the weekends and you either have too much other crap to do or the weather behaves like garbage. I've been trying to get some stuff done after work now that it's a little lighter out at night but again, when it's freezing out it's not helpful. I have a wonderful helper who is amazing and comes up to help whenever he can but he has a family and job of his own and I'm happy for any help he gives me. ❤️

I needed to get the retirement pigs area where they sleep covered and off the ground because they no longer want to use any of the dog houses and the other place they can go that has cover they won't use. So their straw gets wet and then they can't stay warm so I've just been replacing it. I planned to get to it this weekend and it rained all day Sat and snowed and froze yesterday. I had no choice but to have fun in the cold because their straw was sopping wet and with the cold that was no good for them. So I cleaned up the crappy straw, put a platform down and gave them new straw. They were a little grumpy because I fed them on the other side of their yard so I had time to work on it but I didn't get it done quick enough so they were grumping at me until I got the straw in there for them because they just wanted to do back to bed (all they do is sleep and eat LOL). They immediately started rearranging the straw and cuddled right into it. The set up is not what I originally wanted to do but it's better than nothing right now and will help t keep them from the elements. Once it gets warm out I'll set it up the way I want it so they will have more enclosure to it. I couldn't feel my legs when it was done but whatever. The pigs were happy and warm and that's all that matters. 🐷🐽🐖

10/02/2025

The outdoor kitties twice a day LOL

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