SAINTS

1. there may not be any water today at all….the water guy must have closed the valve on the second tank for some reason and it is stuck and i can’t get it open. i am trying to refill the pump from the well but i think the pump is damaged from running dry……..soooo, besides shit, crap, %^%##^&…..use the green rain barrels for water today and tomorrow and go EASY on the water use cuz we won’t be able to get any help with a plumber til tuesday,

2. wolfie and zues are back…they will be in the big storage shop if their dad comes looking for them today,

3. i will be home at lunch break for meds and feeding and to work on the house cleaning….no staff here today or tomorrow.
4. i have my cell phone if anyone needs me.

not a happy camper here this morning.

god, these americats are killing me, i hate their freaking disease. until 2 days ago, charlie was one of the healthier, always first to greet you and help you with whatever you were doing. he was like our public relations, social secretary, right on top of everything and everyone.

i don’t even know what happened here, the eye injury sucked and i am sure it hurt, but he saw the vet, he got long acting injectible antibiotics and a couple of good loads of sc fluids, eye meds and pain meds and it just was not a life threatening injury. what was going on inside him that i missed?

i am tired today. we got alot done in the store room, laura and cathy and vern took care of the heavy and critical stuff. i just fiddled around putting things here and there and where i could ultimately find them again. still it was a long day and i am beat.

rest in peace little prince charles, and i am so sorry if i missed something. you were a great cat and alot of fun, we are all going to miss you alot.

he slipped softly and easily from this life to the next. i will miss you walking on my head tonight hook, i will miss your one-eyed warm consideration, i will miss that grace with which you lived, i will miss you my little best friend.

charlie is not doing well tonight…i got a prescription from the vet for a new kind of appetite stimulant. he won’t eat or drink, we are pushing the fluids thru sc but i think there is more going on here than just his sore eye. come on charlie. don’t do this, not now.

saints welcomes nina, the 15 yr old partially blind and deaf cocker..she really likes to eat, alot.

laura and tammy and eva chipped in and started to work on the new storage shop. it is going to be beyond wonderful to have everything neatly organized in one place.

alistair and gwen jumped out their window, and then jumped over the fence to the riding ring. luckily  tammy saw them and came and got the rest of us. by the time i got to the dog gate, alistair had jumped back in the back yard and gwen jumped the riding ring fence into the shop’s parking lot cuz she thought she had found us all over there. sigh, bad athletic self actualizing dogs …be old, be crippled, be sore and be patient and stay where ever it is that i put you. you are going to give me a heart attack.

it wasn’t a really good day.

chyna loves the puppy cuz he is the only unneutered male she currently has access to…she has started a heat. i am seriously going to shoot myself (or every single stupid, lazy, selfish, cheap, greedy, human being that finds some ignorant self serving excuse not to sterilize their pets that all eventually end up here anyway!)

jed is going to get neutered asap. at six-eight years old, a giant breed newfie with major cardiac, autoimmune disease is going to be a huge surgical risk and our vet is cursing me. but if his owners or breeder had responsibly done him as young healthy pup, we would not be in crises now and having to take the risk.

chyna’s skin is a big concern, but she didn’t start with her major skin problems til after six months of age so she could have been done earlier and she could very well be allergic to the hormones she produces anyway. chyna IS going to be spayed.

milowsky is an 8 yr old who could have been done a thousand times before he broke his pelvis. but his owners decided they didn’t want to and now milowsky is here. he is getting done asap too.

coco, gee why spay a tiny house dog? think hard and find two really good reasons, and she will get done too.
puppy beau is only 5 months old, so ok, he is just due now but WOULD he have gotten done if he hadn’t come into rescue now? the odds are he wouldn’t cuz most dogs who end up in rescue missed this first important step.
THERE ARE BILLIONS OF HOMELESS CATS< DOGS< HORSES AND RABBITS AND THEY ARE GETTING NUKED BY THE BILLIONS BY HUMANS ALL OVER THE WORLD. WE KEEP BREEDING MORE EVERY SINGLE YEAR SO WE CAN KILL EVEN GREATER NUMBERS,,,,DOES THIS MAKE ANY SENSE TO ANYONE WITH EVEN HALF A FUNCTIONING BRAIN?????

i don’t want to hear anyones excuses anymore…i don’t care if the animal is “special” and able to produce babies for profit or fun. I don’t care that you ran short on your paycheque or forgot to get around to it. i don’t care if you are a moronic man who cringes at the thought of testicles surgically removed, i don’t care if the time isn’t right or convenient, or you found “GOOD” homes for all of those innocent babes. big deal if you wanted to show them to get a blue ribbon to hang on your wall. i don’t care if you wanted to experience the miracle of birth or you just wanted to feel all warm and fuzzy because you had babies to goof around with for awhile. don’t tell me “well he is sick now so we couldn’t” cuz that is a lie, he wasn’t always sick and you know it so don’t even go there, it just doesn’t wash. unaltered animals can REPRODUCE, they DIE of reproductive cancers…neither of these outcomes is worthy of ANY human excuse.
so…we cannot run a communal animal shelter, not even one for senior and special needs with a bunch of intact animals with their heads full of sexual needs…they are OLD, they are SICK, they are NOT freaking well dead. i am going to risk jed’s life and i am going to make chyna’s skin temporarily worse, and i am going to send milowsky, and cocopuff, and beau in and finally get done what should have been done in every single responsible home in the very, very first place.

AND we will get to not only cover the whopping bills for doing high risk surgeries, BUT we will care for them well post-operatively AND take care of them forever if need be, until if and when they find a home…one that “gets it” this time.

geezus friggin christ, i am royally pissed off at humans today.

he is a favor to an old rescue friend of mine. beau is a puppy, a highly adoptable puppy, no health or behavioral issues, no hidden or wierd kind of strings attached to him… just a 5 month old havanese/yorkie cross pup that someone got as a mistake. he needs to be neutered, he needs to have a bath and then he needs to have a home which mo already might have covered. he is fun, he is sweet, he is completely adorable and chyna is absolutely in love with him…tough, chyna, we ain’t keeping him!

what is with the americats? are they trying to kill me? trina called me at work today, charlie was in trouble. i told her to take him to the vet right away and i went there on my lunch break. so SOMEONE scratched him on the eye ball and totally wrecked his eye, now he has lost part of his vision which totally sucks. we pumped him full of fluids and gave him a long acting abx injection. he is on eye drops three times a day, pain meds and on cage rest while i make sure he eats and drinks. and which of the remaining americats whacked him in the eye? i haven’t a clue cuz all of them get on wonderfully together and are the best of friends. so either it was a scrap over something or it was an accident, but whatever, charlie is now blind in one eye and i am not happy about this.

carly went home with nicole today. milowsky moved over into the entrance way…it gives him a bit more room, closer and easier access to outside for his pee breaks and gets a bloody big and awkward x-pen out of my way. so all of that is good. oka will have to wait a couple of weeks to get that primo spot for himself…once milowsky is healed enough and neutered, he can join the rest of the big dogs.

i have booked hooks euth appointment for late tomorrow afternoon…i don’t know if i will follow thru with it but i will take him in and hope the vet says…”well…we can try this____ if you want, it might do the trick” and yes i will want to, cuz i am not ready to lose hook right now. hope floats til it sinks.

i have 2 days off after a very difficult week..if i can accomplish even half of what i want to, i will consider myself very lucky indeed…a dog with a flail chest injury, a dog with a fractured pelvis, a cat with a damaged eye, and all on confinement bed rest…and a very active, needy  puppy, three relatively new dogs still settling in,  plus nina the partially blind and deaf 16 yr old cocker arrives tomorrow too. AND a bloody old crippled rooster still in a pen in our freaking store room…he doesn’t look like he has any intention of getting up and he doesn’t look like he has any intention of dying. he is just laying quite comfortably in his nest waiting for us to change his food and his bed. geeze rusty, are we now an extended care facility for roosters too?
ah well…not only do i love all the little bastards, but i am way too busy to get into trouble lately too!

on this wet and dreary morning

who do i open my eyes to see?

two wet and soggy faces

staring thru the fence at me.

i grab a quilt, i grab my key

and i go to say good morning

to wayward dripping,

zues and wolfie.

and by the way, god?

thank you that the shop is now free!

coco-puff was released from the clinic today, she has a brand new very softie tube bed and a much bigger cage. she will stay on cage rest for the next 3-4 weeks and then we will re-xray and see how much she has healed. she is a very lovely little girl, lots of tail wagging and is a cuddle muffin as long as she believes you are not going to try to pick her up. if she thinks you might be thinking that, she starts to anticipatory scream…funny little thing…i ain’t picking her up til i know her ribs are fully healed!

i moved dorky milowsky’s xpen into the cat room..last night he pushed the front of it with his nose right out the door and got the bloody cage stuck in the hallway! now he can push it around all he wants but he is staying inside it wherever he pushes it too. i bought him 14 big bully sticks to chew on… one for each day for the next two weeks that he is fully confined…that not only cost more than one hundred dollars(sheesh!) but it is also driving iky nutz cuz she wants to have one every day too….no iky, you are not  a goofy, playful, moronic dog stuck in a cage with nothing to do!

molly has another hotspot on her ear. jed has one on his flank…and now my fingers are purple from spraying the hotspot stuff on them both.

chyna is doing well, she really is a very nice dog!

hook is on my watch list…he is starting to finally spiral down…when was he diagnosed with his cancer? it must be several months ago now. i didn’t think he would do as well as he has and i don’t want him to suddenly stop doing well now…i love that skinny little one round eyed bandit…hook hooked himself deep inside of me.

raymond is still hanging in there, he is doing not to badly at all.

carly is moving to nicoles house tomorrow, yay carly, yay nicole! (sorry wesley!)
and my bee sting swelling is finally starting to fade but holy smoke is the freaking thing itchy as all get out!

I have just written a new post about Molly at my blog. There is actual video footage of her doing her pilates routine!

i am not a post a note or a sign all over the place kind of person…they mostly just irritate me cuz they look ugly, are generally rude and controlling, and no one reads them anyway. it is a poor way to communicate so if i do post a sign, it is usually a big deal and i am desperate.

anyway, the sign over the front door is different, it says…”house at pooh corner” i usually think it is funny. but today at 5 am not so much so. not that there was any more poop around here than usual, just that little blind and busy tugs had walked thru it all several times.

thx sweeheart….lucky for you that you are so freaking cute.

mj came last night and the bank deposit is ready to go and the tax receipts are ready to mail and all of it got done while leanne and i put the barn guys to bed. i spent some time out in the shop figuring things out…there is a crapload of stuff to take to the dump cuz we just don’t need it here.

free for the taking if anyone wants…a working but elderly washer and dryer, a stove, a disgustingly dirty fridge, an entertainment center, some tables, some long pieces of carpet, chairs, desks, dressers and a single bed.

i called steve our handy guy cuz we need a railing built on those stairs, asap…i am totally freaked out of heights and need one yesterday. he answered but he is on the island fishing and will be back on tuesday next week. ratz..patience is not my best quality.

also…we need a plumber and an electrician so if anyone knows someone reliable and not busy who is looking for a couple of small side jobs, send him or her my way…i would REALLY like to meet them, they would be my most favorite folks this week.

i was at work. renee called me and i told her how to wrap him and place his body in the freezer. she is very young and she left me a note, it said ” that was really hard with sanjaya but i am glad i spent his last day with him. i visited him alot today. he went peacefully.” thank you renee, you did right by him.

sunrise stayed with him til the very end, he is still laying on the very same couch. thank you sunrise for being such a good friend to sanjaya, and thank you sanjaya for being such a very great cat. rest in peace little man.

i talked to the vet about sunrise today and we are going to try a couple of med combo’s to see if we can bump him back up. i don’t want him to be the next to go, shit i don’t want any of them to go..it is such a crappy, crappy disease.

renee left about 4pm…i got home at about 4:30…that idiot milowsky with his broken pelvis climbed over the 4 foot xpen and was loose in the house with all of the others. including chyna who is NOT spayed and milowsky is NOT neutered and it is a good gawd darn thing she is not in heat and he is a virtual uncoordinated cripple.

WHY DO PEOPLE NOT STERILIZE THEIR FREAKING DOGS!!!????? by the time i get them, they are so messed up we sometimes can’t fix them right away…it is a pain in the neck trying to keep everyone separate until they are well enough to neuter or spay.

both squeakers and coco are doing quite well. squeakers needs some more fine tuning on his insulin dose and coco can come home on cage rest for a few weeks until she is well enough for her spay and dental surgeries. then i will have to decide about her future, but i don’t have to decide that right now.

the tenant is gone, the building is open so now i can at least get in there and start planning what is staying, what is going and where it is going and how stuff is going to be stored. that is a huge job in itself…i will have to figure out when i will have the time to figure it all out.

i just want to say something to the americans out there who have invested so much in the survivors of Pahrump…the americats gave me a very small glimpse into what they had lived thru and we at saints can never thank you, their rescuers, advocates and dream sharers enough for helping them make their final journey to saints. i saw on the BF website that “cover girl” has also recently passed away…so many losses, so much pain and sorrow…such wonderful, wonderful cats.

thank you.