What is about haybales and cats? As soon as I introduced a few straw bales around our porch as fall decoration, Dusty claimed this one as his own, and seems to have taken up permanent residence on it. In fact, he loooves this haybale so much you would think it was laced with catnip. He spent the first few days pouncing on it, clawing it, rolling on it, stretching on it. Now he has contented himself with merely sleeping on it.
Some of my favorite memories from childhood are of playing with the legions (and yes, I do mean LEGIONS) of cats in the hayroom at the barn. Cats and haybales. Haybales and cats. Not sure why, but they just go together like peas and carrots.
So glad I could do my part to "complete" Dusty. :) Dreading the day (for Dusty) when the strawbales head to the garden as winter mulch ...
On another yet related note, I sure hope our child doesn't have to visit the doctor HALF as much as our pets have been at the vet this year. On Friday, Ralph went to the vet for what I think was our family's FIFTH pet-related incident of the year (not including what happened with Ellie ... we're not gonna talk about that ...). Let's count them, shall well? 1. Dusty has an impacted foot. Stays at the vet for 3 days. 2. Ellie enters the family ... needs treatment for ringworm. 3. Koda gets an impacted foot. Has to be put out for Doc to treat him. 4. Dusty breaks his hip ... sedation and overnight stays at the vet (luckily, this one healed without surgery ... we were gonna have to take out a loan for the vet bills!), 5. Ralph throws up everything he eats for 3 days straight. Needs rehydrated and his stomach coated. Ive never seen such a string of bad luck with pets ... this is getting a little ridiculous.
Funny, it seems that every time Gage and I start talking again about adding some livestock to our small farm, something goes wrong with one of our pets and reminds me again just how stinkin' expensive animals can be. Maybe this is God's way of telling us to hold off on the livestock ... at least for now.
1 comment:
Well I would say the pets are definitely going to the doctor enough for everyone in the family so the little one should be perfectly healthy all the time!!
:-) Sorry to hear about all your vet excursions. Like the picture of Dusty.
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