‘Ster is not well. He keeps himself to himself and is currently on a ten day course of antibiotics (intra-muscular which doesn’t bring out the best in any of us) for what we think is a urinary tract infection.
Over the past few months there has been a smell of pee which has recently become noticeably intense. So yesterday my sheep-wrangler, Morgan, sheared ‘Ster’s under-belly only to find nasty things going on – everything was caught up in the wool and his bits were ulcerated. Poor, poor boy. This explains the smell.
But hopefully, now with fresh air around his bits, antibiotics and pushing fresh water, things will get better. ‘Ster did a lovely pee this afternoon, which cheered me greatly. If I had to describe it – a light pinot grigio in colour, lovely and clear too with a good gush. That’s what we want. He has been quite the loaner too but just now he asked to rejoin the flock, which I took as a good sign.
Also, Pepper is three leggedy. Yesterday, she went on a dog walk on four legs, and came home on three and we don’t know what happened to cause this. First thing, I took her to the vet and, while nothing obvious was found (no crepitus, no snatching of her leg) there was a little reaction around her elbow. She is now on regular painkillers and house arrest. The vet did ask for her to be caged but I said Pepper would hate that and so the compromise of just house-bound was agreed on with the caveat that we would see how she got on.
She has also been replaced by a chicken.
While Pepper as she gets along fine on her three legs, we need her to get better, not just make do. She does not agree.
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Fingers crossed Ster gets back to normal fast. As for Miss Pepper’s paw…maybe more cuddles and treats?
Oh, my! I feel as if two members of my family are unwell. I admire vets so much for having patients who can’t explicate their medical problems. I hope both members of your crew will be feeling perky & well quickly!
Oh dear! Hope they are better soon.
When you have lots of critters, there’s always something. Sending very best wishes for ‘Ster and Pepper to heal up quickly.
These animals don’t make life easy for us! It sounds as if Ster is already on the mend and I hope Miss Pepper soon feels more comfortable.
feel better Pepper and Ster, we love you!
Hope everyone gets better sonn
I’m glad that ‘Ster is feeling better now that he’s got some antibiotics on board. We use to have UTI problems with some of our German Shepherd girls and getting the right drugs into them was like a miracle cure. I hope it works like that for ‘Ster.
I had problems similar to ‘Ster’s with my neutered boy goat Frisbee. (Tho luckily without the wool making it nastier!) What ended up keeping his system behaving was 500 mg of vitamin c daily. I found a chewy one he liked so it wasn’t a struggle to get him to eat it either.
Hope ‘Ster and Pepper get all better soon!
what did you give him? Link please. x
It was a local ( Texas) grocery store brand that I ended up using because it was the most consistently available. (It’s not available on their website now.) And it was orange flavored. He had liked the different fruit flavored ones but they disappeared during covid. I think he also liked the gummy bear chewyness even with his teeth going. Good luck!