I had a really nice visit from Holly's mom (now named Stella). Holly was adopted last year, she was a high strung, devastated, senior poodle who had lost her home. Now, she is a little princess, and I knew just from listening to Corey speak of her, how very dearly she is loved. I went to refill the food that I put out for the stray dog, it hasn't been touched, this worries me. Pippa's possible adoption to a really nice lady in Sask. as fallen thru. This lady was willing to make the trip all the way out here to meet both Pippa and myself with no guarantee that it would end up being a match, but alas, Pippa is several inches too tall by airline standards to go by carrier under the seat in the cabin. She is much too old and frail to go into the cargo hole. One day, the very right home will come for her and hopefully it will just be a simple and quick car ride away. Frodo is driving me nutz, he is becoming more and more determined to stay outside at night. It took alot from me to finally let him have some freedom on the property during the day, I am not about to give in and let him stay out at night. He is hiding out right now, watching me hunting for him, he is a brat. Colleen ( the vet) called to see how Isaac is doing, he is eating again and last I heard more comfortable. There have been some minor issues with Charley so I talked to her about neutering him. She said it is not a risk as far as his cervical instability is concerned, but if he is end stage wobblers syndrome, we may not want to put him thru it. The problem we don't know if the progression is just beginning or nearing the end because we have no history on how long he has been showing symptoms. She said he may have a month or two of quality of life or as long as a year, there is no way to tell. I hate these kind of decisions. But the next one to get neutered is Carl. I wasn't in any rush because there is no one for him to breed with and he has been pretty mellow and nice. I noticed yesterday tho that he was starting to spit at the donkeys so I went looking for my expert llama friend to ask her some questions. We know that Carl was alone and abandoned for 3 years, but we do not know how old he was before that. She told me that he was probably quite young at his abandonment, and now is coming into his sexual maturity. she strongly recommends that I get off my duff and bite the unhappy bullet and wrestle him down for sedation for the vet to neuter. She said an intact and sexually mature llama is dangerous. Oh well, unhappy llama neuter day, here we come. I bet i hate that day. It is much easier to take dogs and cats into the vet clinics then I can miss all the unhappy drama as they protest. Mellie went in today. Her surgery is booked for first thing tomorrow morning. They will do a chest Xray first to ensure that the cancer (if the tumours are malignant) has not metastized into her lungs, if it has, the surgery will be cancelled and we will switch her to palliative care status. Fifty percent of mammory tumours are benign...I hope she is in that group! It was a nice day around here today, the animals were all good, I spent a rel;axing day with all of them and even had a brief afternoon nap with Ed (he really liked that!)
Thanks for the well wishes for my journey! I hear it is snowing in Alberta but hopefully will be clearing by Monday. I will be spending the night on the other side of Jasper and will probably be at the Best Western later in the day Tuesday in Mission. I will call when I am settled in, to get directions to SAINTS. Can't wait!! I enjoy KID FOOD too so Pippa and I will enjoy life together (I hope!) See you soon, Diane