Thread:DancesWithGoats/@comment-29193085-20170113160956/@comment-29787173-20170206175533

Awwww, you poor thing. It sucks to not be able to collect. Well compile a list for me and all the others who are just waiting to be able to fill you back up. I have been doing some major hoarding. I have 38 collections ready to collect but I get tired of needing to collect something and not have all the items and having to wait. So I put myself on an intentional wait and have been doing pictures that give the things I need and using my wish list and just trying to get the numbers up so I can eventually do my stored collections slowly without worrying about it all. 6 of 1, 1/2 dozen of the other probably but it is what my mind wanted so there it is.

Left side limpers UNITE!

My goats are Oscar and Felix. I received  Oscar and Felix at a a little over a month old. They were twin brothers who had been hand raised. I bottle fed them for a while then weaned them. Such little darnlings. Oscar got sick, the vet here is not very good with pet goats, more of a livestock man, so I took them to Kansas State about 65 miles away. Their vet school is great and the students fell absolutely in love with them. Little Oscar had surgery and the day I brought him home I worried because he just did not seem right. I spent the night at the barn and checked on him, used a baby monitor in case he cried but fell asleep around 4. By 7 he was dead. I have never lost a baby anything. I thought I was going to die. It was horrible and of course there was baby Felix who had been raised inside with a doting human Mom then off to me to dote on him and his constant forever companion his brother. I slept in the barn...IN the barn stall (it was 14 degrees outside) with Felix until we could get another baby goat. So this Oscar is Oscar Too :-).  He is a Pygmy rather than the dwarf that Felix is but they learned to get along very well.  Oscar chews on things.  He apparently had a big piece of rubber between his molars for quite a while and I had no idea.  He ended up with a draining infection, it drained through the bone and out his jaw.  They said that would never heal, well I am determined and it did heal once I knew what it was and what to do.  Still he lost several molars and that is bad since they only have front teeth on the bottom.  That is why he chokes and why I have to mow hay for him.  Sorry about the tome here, geeze!  Anyway, there is nothing I would not do for these two. They are getting on in years and I fear the day I lose them.  And there is your reading for the day!  Good grief.  Sorry about that.  Here is one of my favorite graphics that Lidewey, queen of the graphics found.  Have a great day and keep a list.