Showing posts with label alpaca owie. Show all posts
Showing posts with label alpaca owie. Show all posts

Tuesday, July 31, 2007

Lots going on

I have a new website up for the alpacas, http://www.freewebs.com/mypetalpaca/. I encourage you to check it out and let me know what you think. Hopefully these alpacas will find a good home. Then we can get some more animals and start all over again. We are treading softly as to not get in over our heads without any experience.
Lately I feel like I have so much to do, but this heat makes me sooo tired. Part of me just can't wait for it to get cold again. The other part of me wants to go play in the sun until I can't move. I haven't bible studied like I should lately. I tried to sit down with my husband tonight to bible study. What do you know? We got into a small disagreement before we even got started reading. It was about something unrelated to reading. It was really frustrating. I got upset, so Mike said that he didn't want to listen anymore. We could do it another day. At least I got out one paragraph on psalms 150. Better than nothing. I went and curled up in my room to read by myself.
The alpacas are all looking much better. The blonde is healing very nicely. I'm still waiting on shampoo for the suri with the skin condition. The limping suri is doing very well. He lightly favors the leg now. The other day, I realized that Frankie has a wound. He damaged his eye. It had pink and swollen tissue around the inside of the eye. He has a small puncture wound on his snout, near his nose. He also has a mild abrasion on the end of his snout next to his nose. What he did I have no idea, but his eye is returned to normal. His abrasion has healed nicely, but I am still watching the small puncture wound. I get nervous at that because I know that puncture wounds are bacteria heaven.
Alrightie. I should treat myself to a bit early of a bed time.

Friday, July 20, 2007

Alpaca update

We haltered the alpaca and strapped him up so that we could better tend the wound today. It wasn't too bad. Its gotten really pussy, but we did not find any maggots dead or alive in it tonight. We cleaned it out really well, removing all infectious material and applied the ointment and fly repellent. The vet said that as long as the alpaca started progressing in a positive direction that further action, including antibiotics, would not be necessary. This alpaca has such a sweet timid demeanor. I feel terrible putting him through the ringer like this. He was surprisingly cooperative while we were cleaning him up. Maybe he knew we were helping. There was only a few times he tried to fight, but I think that had a lot to do with the cold water on a cool day, especially when it splashed his jewels. Well, I guess officially he doesn't have jewels though. lol.
Tomorrow we go pick up some more fencing and go to the county auction. Our neighbor bought some pygmy goats and he said that our alpacas can come over and help knock down his overgrowth if we'd like. Pygmy goats, how cute.