{"id":1330,"date":"2017-07-11T11:05:37","date_gmt":"2017-07-11T16:05:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/paulettejiles.com\/?p=1330"},"modified":"2017-07-11T18:55:29","modified_gmt":"2017-07-11T23:55:29","slug":"it-never-ends-july-1117","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paulettejiles.com\/pj_wp\/it-never-ends-july-1117\/","title":{"rendered":"It Never Ends\/ July 11\/17"},"content":{"rendered":"

Okay everybody who longs for a little property outside of the city with maybe a small affectionate donkey and a dog and a cat, let’s not even consider chickens.<\/p>\n

Billy my donkey came down with a condition on his legs and heels called at times rain scald, sometimes rain rot, sometimes ‘grease heel’, and all of it is just as off-putting as it sounds but must be treated. Washed down with hot water and soap and then sprayed with iodine. Poor baby. Every. Damn. Day.<\/p>\n

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Then called the vet after more than a month of this and he said leave it alone and I will give him antibiotics and a steroid shot.<\/p>\n

Okay, 700-pound donkey, 11 tablets of high-powered antibiotic have to be crushed into powder every morning in a baggie and then rolled into peanut butter.<\/p>\n

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So I am on my way down to the corral with the bowl of antibiotic-loaded peanut butter, set it down briefly,\u00a0and Girl Dog came along and ATE IT.<\/p>\n

That’s enough high-powered antibiotic for an 800-lb animal and 35-pound Girl Dog ate it all in one gulp.<\/p>\n

\"\"That’s Girl Dog — the white one — with cousin Susan holding her back from charging at wild hogs in a pen. She just got all healed up from being hooked by a wild hog, 12 stitches– so I frantically texted the vet, Wiley Skelton, he said she had to throw it up, give her 3 ounces of hydrogen peroxide, which I did. No result. He said try three more, so I did, finally she threw up everything but her toenails and her tail. Saved!!<\/p>\n

He said it would have ruined her kidneys.<\/p>\n

So. Back to crushing antibiotics for donkey. Girl Dog exhausted and sleeping on the cool floor inside the house. Nice cool morning when I was going to give Buck a bath and go for a ride totally gone.\u00a0In the future the medication\/peanut butter goes in a closed Glad bowl until I get it down Billy.<\/p>\n

Then another break in the hose down to the water-trough, had to cut into it and insert hose joint.<\/p>\n

Now, finally, time to work on a new book and answer event requests by email and maybe find Jaynell to see if she is still cutting hair and get a haircut and buy 3 bales of hay and unload at the corral and this evening if it is cool by maybe seven-thirty give Billy a scrub-down with hot water and mild soap. I used to joke about giving that donkey away but now he and I have become more acquainted with each other, constantly working with him. He has been really patient through all this treatment and has even become affectionate. Adversity makes friends I suppose. Well, so maybe tomorrow morning I will give Buck his bath and we’ll go for a ride.<\/p>\n

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