Vet wrong and lessons learned
Aug 24, 2019 22:24:54 GMT -5
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Post by raerae on Aug 24, 2019 22:24:54 GMT -5
Well... I kept an eye on Charlotte and today she came up hard as a rock.
Of course its Saturday. Vet was either dead wrong and didn't strip enough to see the infection or introduced bacteria when she put the catheter in.
Went to 4 different towns and 6 stores before I found Today. One single box, and apparently I was the 3rd person to ask for it today.
I take it the weather and flies has pinkeye and mastitis running rampant around here. There also isn't a bottle of LA 300 to be had within a 45 minute drive.
Anyway... great thanks to sunburst4 for walking me through the process.
I tried tied with altered horse hobbles, headgate with hobbles, headgate, hobbles, one leg tied back..... finally dh put a belly rope on and she settled down completely.
Noteworthy that Charlotte didn't once try to retaliate, but was just too fidgety to accomplish the job. I can't imagine the pain.
Yellow silly string. Putrid smelling silly string. (I've bathed and sprayed myself and anything else I've touched with alcohol, and the hobbles, rags, buckets are soaking in bleachwater)
I stripped as much as would come out.(I wore gloves) Massaged and massaged with warm rags. Infused with today via partial insertion.
Never done that before. Never seen it done.
Charlotte is such a good girl.
She gets all the cookies.
My vet will get an earful.
And I feel like a dunce for once again thinking the Profesional knew more than I did.
I had planned on working more on her training once it cooled off some. Hot or not this is forcing the issue.
Lessons learned-
No one knows your animal like you.
Trust your gut.
Treat for worst case scenario, don't wait it out.
They can forget how to lead.
There's always a way, figure it out.
You can do it. And you'd better cuz you have to.
A trusting cow is worth her weight in gold.
Please send up a little prayer that I can get her cleared up and my naivety won't ruin her.
(Side note on Ruger, he's progressed to full on 4th stage pinkeye. Still a waiting game to see if it'll heal or.....pop. )
Of course its Saturday. Vet was either dead wrong and didn't strip enough to see the infection or introduced bacteria when she put the catheter in.
Went to 4 different towns and 6 stores before I found Today. One single box, and apparently I was the 3rd person to ask for it today.
I take it the weather and flies has pinkeye and mastitis running rampant around here. There also isn't a bottle of LA 300 to be had within a 45 minute drive.
Anyway... great thanks to sunburst4 for walking me through the process.
I tried tied with altered horse hobbles, headgate with hobbles, headgate, hobbles, one leg tied back..... finally dh put a belly rope on and she settled down completely.
Noteworthy that Charlotte didn't once try to retaliate, but was just too fidgety to accomplish the job. I can't imagine the pain.
Yellow silly string. Putrid smelling silly string. (I've bathed and sprayed myself and anything else I've touched with alcohol, and the hobbles, rags, buckets are soaking in bleachwater)
I stripped as much as would come out.(I wore gloves) Massaged and massaged with warm rags. Infused with today via partial insertion.
Never done that before. Never seen it done.
Charlotte is such a good girl.
She gets all the cookies.
My vet will get an earful.
And I feel like a dunce for once again thinking the Profesional knew more than I did.
I had planned on working more on her training once it cooled off some. Hot or not this is forcing the issue.
Lessons learned-
No one knows your animal like you.
Trust your gut.
Treat for worst case scenario, don't wait it out.
They can forget how to lead.
There's always a way, figure it out.
You can do it. And you'd better cuz you have to.
A trusting cow is worth her weight in gold.
Please send up a little prayer that I can get her cleared up and my naivety won't ruin her.
(Side note on Ruger, he's progressed to full on 4th stage pinkeye. Still a waiting game to see if it'll heal or.....pop. )