Animal frenzy

Well, It has been quite the animal craze around here!

Feb. 14th on Valentines day, we had a dog that had a litter of ten puppies! She has only lost three and appears to be a very good mama for a first timer.

Feb. 17th, one of our first time goats had her first kid. Sis had to pull the kid cause it was to big for the nanny, but she and the kid are just fine now.

Feb. 18th, the whether goat gored one of our nanny goats and punctured an artery...at night of all times. We were afraid that we were going to loose her, but flour as blood stop, and pressure on the wound and God's hand kept her alive and she is doing very good now.

Also that same night, because of the chaos going on, sis just put a pregnant nanny and the one who had just had her kid the day before in the same barn together without ropes or anything...bad idea.

Feb. 19th in the morning, the pregnant nanny, who had been beat up badly by the other goat, had twins. She was traumatised from being tortured all night long and having kids for the first time. She had a 6" lump on her belly where most of her wounds were and she was not making a sufficient amount of milk for the kids. We were certain that she was not going to make it.

Feb. 20th the traumatised nanny is showing a 50/50 chance of survival. She is bleating to her kids and walking around more and showing signs of alertness, where she wasn't before.

Today, Feb. 21, all seems honky dory with all the animals, until the Golden Retriever female decided to have her puppies...on the coldest day this month so far...ingenious. Two have already died and one we are keeping in the house, because the mama is still WAY to fat to be able to nurse it. I mean, this girl looks like she is going to have twelve puppies! Anyway, we are still pending on her. She is experienced and has done very good with her puppies in the past, but it is a very cold and windy day to day and she is getting on in years. We will see I guess.

So anyway, what will happen next? We are not expecting any more baby animals until June or July, but who knows what could happen between now and then? One of em could swallow a grenade or we could end up getting a pet lion and tiger...not likely, but ya never know... already had a horse that tried to cut his hoove off in January, and a bobcat that decided to be road kill, and an armadillo that wanted to be a pet, what could happen next? Oh that great unknown....