Daisy's Sidekick

[Charlie Horse]

Lyme and West Nile and some of those other diseases that sit around in the environment and "might" get your animals bug me. Vaccinations that are 40% effective-- Thanks a lot. My yak Tibetty got sold to a perfect home in Nebraska, where she died six months later from some kind of fly-borne deer ebola that "usually" doesn't affect cattle. Well apparently it gets some percentage of yaks. It made me pretty sad to hear about it-- I kept tabs on her. At least we're not in the deep South where the heat and humidity allow a ton more parasites and viruses to spread. In the west you don't see stuff like heart-worms in dogs unless they used to live in the South-East. Even fleas and lice are pretty uncommon here in domestic animals.