Baby Goat #6

Oh the cuteness! One of the guys up the road found another baby goat! It's a few days older than mine, but totally cute as well. Will finish in a bit!

Dino Surgery

Wanted to let everyone know that the Brontosaurus dinosaur, Little Foot, made it out of surgery alright. His head was successfully reattached, we added some stuffing to fill in the areas of tissue loss, and the stitches up his neck look quite good. I buried the knots (except for one) for cosmetic reasons since the sutures are permanent. It might be a good idea if he avoided the dogs for a while.

And as you can see by the look on his face, my surgery partner was far more confident in our ability:

Baby Goat #5

We all know I'm a bit of a sucker... but this was only supposed to last for the weekend! On Wednesday, I saw a nanny goat with two little kids. Very cute. One had a bit of diarrhea and looked sick, so I called the dogs back and went back into my apartment.

The next night, the girl next door called me to tell me there was a baby goat out side. (Since I'm the one to drop baby goats off on.) I replied to her that yes I knew there were goats, should be 2 kids, and I was sure their mom would come back for them.

Friday night rolls around and the dogs run down to where we sighted the goats before. There is one skinny sad little baby goat. This was the healthy one, not the one with diarrhea. The nanny wasn't in sight. I made the decision to take the kid home, just for one night until I could find it's mother. She had one red tag and one yellow tag in her ear, so I figured it'd be relatively easy.

Wrong! She was no where to be found, so I kept the little guy for another night. Several days later I found the nanny goat. She had rejoined the herd, but didn't have the other baby with her. One of her udders was huge, oozing pus. Mastitis is pretty painful, so she must not have abandoned her cute little kids.

This means I have a little baby goatie! I'm only going to keep it for a little while, only until it can rejoin the goat herd. Pretty cute little guy huh? Liz named him Ting. This is the 5th goat/sheep I've had in my apartment!

My Return

I'm home safe.

Can't say the same for the critters. Squeaker is "missing," the cat is hurt, and the dogs are covered in poop. The pet sitter (7th semester vet student) I hired didn't exactly "take care" of the animals. Here's a pict of the maggots on my counter and in their food. I have picts of the dried poop piles all over the floor that i had to scrape up, but I thought it best not to post those.

Patches was happy to see me. Actually, so were the dogs. Salty nearly knocked me over. Glad they remembered me.

Went to the Marriott beach to get some sun. Splurged and had a mixed drink and a sandwich. Yum yum!

School starts on Monday. I have mixed feeling about being back on island. It's SO much warmer, but I miss the luxuries of the states. Will be nice to see my friends at school, but 6th semester will be hard. Here's to 2009!