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[CLKD]

Gold-fish ...... one golden orf aged about 9 years

[Eddie]

CLKD, Your lucky your goldfish are breeeding, mines just eat all the eggs, i've got a golden orfe too, it's about 5 yrs old, i did have two golden and two blues. I keep koi's they are great to watch, so tranquil. Eddie. x

[CLKD]

Whoops - quail got out of the greenhouse just now, one flew straight onto the pond the other fluttered so I caught him, put him into the greenhouse and scooped his brother out of the water!  PHEW!

[CLKD]

Lovely bright morning after heavy rain.  Birds are singing.  Chicken has announced to the World that she's laid an egg ........ must go and feed the birds!

[Meggie]

Eggs, Eggs and more Eggs

It's lovely having hens and their produce but I've made cakes, Creme Anglais, Quiche, hard boiled and scrambled, Lemon-Meringue Pie ....... but still the Eggs KEEP COMING.  At the moment, after all of this, we have 40 !!

We give some away and make cakes for friends - I suppose I should thank my lucky stars and be thankful I can "stock-pile" them as, in a couple of months time when they are a year old, they'll stop laying ...... to shed their feathers.

Meggie

[Trey]

Hi ladies, I am so happy, we sold house to bluebird lovers and we are leaving their 'custom' home so it will be here next year for them.  They come back year after year if they are made welcome.  This is a special house built by hand in another state by a private person - it is one that the sparrows cannot get in and destroy the nest and the eggs.  So that's one concern I know longer have.  Now the gory job of exhuming my bunny and moving him to our new home next month.  We've discussed this endlessly and decided we just don't feel right leaving him.  Call me crazy, I don't care but he was a good loyal loving bunny and he deserves to stay with the family.  Wish I'd had him cremated, but didn't.  Sorry if this is way too much TMI

[Taz2]

I am so pleased that the new owners will be welcoming to your bluebirds Trey. As for exhuming your bunny I would just like to say that a friend of mine exhumed his late father's ashes from the garden (they had buried the urn and planted a rosebush on top) as he wanted them to be put with his newly deceased mum's ashes. He had to dig up a huge amount of garden as the urn had moved quite a way. Apparently this is what happens and is the same thing that causes stones to move around in the soil too. I hope your find your friend. I have got so many furry friends buried in my garden that there is no way I could exhume them all but I understand why you don't want to leave him behind.

Taz x 

[Bette]

  on selling your house - and to folk you're happy with too.  When should you be able to move into your lovely new house?
Bixby x

[Meggie]

............................................. He had to dig up a huge amount of garden as the urn had moved quite a way. Apparently this is what happens and is the same thing that causes stones to move around in the soil too...................

Taz x 

Sounds like this could end up as a Landsaping jobbie - any good at it?     !!

Hope you find what you are looking for.

Meggie

[Trey]

Taz, thanks for understanding.  I hope Harvey has not hopped too far.  In our real estate disclosure we have to disclose any burials - so I said 'no' and thus, I have motivation to move him.  Yee gads, I'm glad Don will be doing it.  Taz, are you feeling back to 'normal' whatever that is?

Bixby, thanks so much for the good wishes.  At our age, it is high time we settle down.  We are only moving about a mile away and hope we've made a good decision.  It will be good to get away from all the chemicals on the golf course.  I've been hoarse for three months.

The first thing we are doing is setting up our bird houses and hoping we attract visitors.  First we have to plant trees.  We have a thick stand of trees at the very rear of our lot, but will need some near my bedroom window as that is where we have the feeders.

Both our ridgebacks had their dentals today and I helped them with waking from anesthesia.  I was a nurse so I'm happy the vet lets me do this, but we are all exhausted.  One of them had a root canal a year ago and sort of a acrylic 'crown'.  Broke her largest molar on a nylabone.  Vet says that they are just too hard for dogs.

[Bette]

Interesting about the nylabone - gave up on it with our (very large) boxer when we noticed that it always made his gums bleed. Better to let him destroy lots of rubber toys than hurt himself! 
Bixby x

[CLKD]

Nylabone aren't any harder than real bones but real bones break off with a bit of give I suppose.  Nylabone being rigid the teeth get purchase and with no give  - my cocker simply ignored the one I gave her, as well as the Kong ........ even when stuffed with peanut butter!

If ever she had a GA or sedative I had her teeth cleaned too.  Her breath was fresh until the day she was pts.  She had several raw scrubbed carrots daily which kept them clean.  They had to be from the Supermarket though, Dad grew her a row 'specially' but she turned up her nose  .   Real lamb bones made her  7-8 hours after she had eaten them.

Glad your Blue birds are sorted Trey 

[Trey]

Hi CLKD and Bixby and others,  what a great idea on carrots - will get some today.  Taylorsue was up all night with what I am guessing was spasms of her larynx. Not exactly choking but a low hard clearing of throat - I'm trying to figure out how to describe it to her vet.  Pretty sure it is irritation from the tube down her throat which i assume they used for anesthesia. 

A highly thought of endodontist for animals told me if you couldn't make a dent with your thumb nail, it was too hard and as CLKD said it could cause a shearing off fracture of the large molars.  So, I was just thinking yesterday, what could I use.  With Taylor and her root canal I have to be careful - she tends to avoid hard foods and eat on the 'good' side of her mouth.  But TJ needs something badly as Taylor's soft treats (rarely given) have caused him to suddenly have tartar.  Thanks for yet another good idea on this forum.

[CLKD]

Dogs in the wild would eat the paunch first which is full of vegies followed by meat and bones, sinew and gristle.  So any carrots, cauli, cabbage middles are good. Plus garlic and ginger in their food mix.  Non weight inducing and good chewing!

[CLKD]

By that sky is black!  After a lovely sunny 2 days.  I've been cutting and trimming, trying to catch up after 3 weeks away.  The birds are singing.  Frogs are croaking.  The new fish have settled into the pond and are eating ....... the baby fish are growing  .  Quail have settled down though will always be flighty when approached.  Chooks are, well, chooks - no eggs yesterday but 4 fine examples today  ....... off for a doze on the settee me thinks ........ crikey it's 3.30!  I thought it was about 2.00-ish well no sleep then!