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07-11-2017, 11:15 PM
I agree, they should never see the act of humans euthanizing one of their own due to the predator - prey symbolism, they won't understand.
Huck is starting to enjoy all of the attention. He gets bored with the IV fluids since the best way I can do it is tieing him to a post with 24 inches of rope, and hanging a bag of fluids above him. I have hay to occupy him and pluck branches from trees to chew on but he gets really agitated if we are in the shop for too long. When I was getting the follow up blood sample he was terrible. The biggest pain in the butt. I wanted to use the IV catheter to take the blood (less pokes) but he wouldn't stop manipulating his body in whatever way he could to not let me do it. I couldn't figure out why, nothing looked painful. I guess long story short, I had to pull his catheter out because he put a kink in it and draw blood from his neck anyways.
In my mind the blood work was going to be black and white, good or bad, but it was both. His BUN dropped from 44 to 36, creatinine down to .7, but his CBC showed a continued decline of hemoglobin and hematocrit. I emailed the results but haven't gotten any response yet. I'll let you all know what the verdict is when I get it. Huck's behavior, and sassiness gives me hope for him.
Yukon was just as loyal as my dog. Being a prey species he spoke a different language but none the less if he wouldn't of made a mess out of my house I would of let him in. We goat people are special people. I wish everyone could have a glimpse of our experience and love of goats to help the perspective of "just livestock" change.
Huck is starting to enjoy all of the attention. He gets bored with the IV fluids since the best way I can do it is tieing him to a post with 24 inches of rope, and hanging a bag of fluids above him. I have hay to occupy him and pluck branches from trees to chew on but he gets really agitated if we are in the shop for too long. When I was getting the follow up blood sample he was terrible. The biggest pain in the butt. I wanted to use the IV catheter to take the blood (less pokes) but he wouldn't stop manipulating his body in whatever way he could to not let me do it. I couldn't figure out why, nothing looked painful. I guess long story short, I had to pull his catheter out because he put a kink in it and draw blood from his neck anyways.
In my mind the blood work was going to be black and white, good or bad, but it was both. His BUN dropped from 44 to 36, creatinine down to .7, but his CBC showed a continued decline of hemoglobin and hematocrit. I emailed the results but haven't gotten any response yet. I'll let you all know what the verdict is when I get it. Huck's behavior, and sassiness gives me hope for him.
Yukon was just as loyal as my dog. Being a prey species he spoke a different language but none the less if he wouldn't of made a mess out of my house I would of let him in. We goat people are special people. I wish everyone could have a glimpse of our experience and love of goats to help the perspective of "just livestock" change.
Today we stroll the neighborhood, someday we'll climb mountains together.. 