I only tell you all that because whenever I think of updating the blog, I don't even know where to begin. BUT. Last night I saw such a welcome sight, I figured I'd finally found a place to start. Ears is eating again!
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| I'm sure you were all dying to see a goat chewing with her mouth open. |
For the record, one of my beautiful and sweet two-year-olds, Aurora - better known as Ears - has not been doing very well. She came down with a enterotoxemia-type stomach bug that basically made her very lethargic and dehydrated and took away almost all of her appetite. After getting lots of feel-good drugs and antibiotics and fluids to counter the bug and the dehydration, she was getting fed (literally) six different types of food plus supplements in the hopes that what little desire she had to taste new things would keep her alive, but despite our efforts she lost a LOT of weight. (Notice that I don't have photos of the rest of her - I'm pretty sure that if I did, I would open the door tomorrow to a person in a PETA t-shirt with a 100 % recycled-synthetic-material rope to hogtie me and a nice hot "animal abuser" cattle brand.)
Well, yesterday morning AND last night AND this morning, she had a real appetite! It was so lovely to see her actually begging for food after almost a month of morose taste-and-pout behavior. My fingers and toes and ankles and eyes and everything else I can think of are crossed, but I'm thinking/hoping/praying that she's over the worst of it.
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| Obviously Cristal's food - exactly the same as hers - is much better. |
