I haven't been blogging much - Kiki and Gunner were both injured by coyotes on Tuesday night, and much of my time since has been spent in getting them to and from the vet to have their wounds attended to.
John has the story of the battle here.
At least Buffy and the goats and the horses and chickens are all unharmed. Gunner is reovering rapidly, for he is young and has no fear.
Poor Kiki, though, it having a harder time of it. Being part bloodhound, she tends to walk around with her nose to the ground. Unfortunately, because the coyotes nearly tore her lower lip off, this is not helping with her recovery, so she is wearing an Elizabethan Collar to protect her face.
She is adapting to the collar - she has figured out how to steal the cat's food even while her face is surrounded by a huge cone of silence, and she can eat and drink with the thing on, but she is healing more slowly than Gunner, and poor John has to really fight her to get her to take her antibiotics (she is refusing the pill when wrapped in sausage or cheese or anything!)
Kiki cannot go outside except to potty, and this makes her sad, too. Especially since it is snowing and she likes to try to catch snowflakes.
So say a prayer that Kiki recovers quickly. She is a good, good dog, and I want her to be able to run around with Gunner again as soon as possible.
In the meantime, we continue to keep an eye out for any more coyotes sneaking around so we can shoot them dead.
John has the story of the battle here.
At least Buffy and the goats and the horses and chickens are all unharmed. Gunner is reovering rapidly, for he is young and has no fear.
Poor Kiki, though, it having a harder time of it. Being part bloodhound, she tends to walk around with her nose to the ground. Unfortunately, because the coyotes nearly tore her lower lip off, this is not helping with her recovery, so she is wearing an Elizabethan Collar to protect her face.
She is adapting to the collar - she has figured out how to steal the cat's food even while her face is surrounded by a huge cone of silence, and she can eat and drink with the thing on, but she is healing more slowly than Gunner, and poor John has to really fight her to get her to take her antibiotics (she is refusing the pill when wrapped in sausage or cheese or anything!)
Kiki cannot go outside except to potty, and this makes her sad, too. Especially since it is snowing and she likes to try to catch snowflakes.
So say a prayer that Kiki recovers quickly. She is a good, good dog, and I want her to be able to run around with Gunner again as soon as possible.
In the meantime, we continue to keep an eye out for any more coyotes sneaking around so we can shoot them dead.
And Kiki has mastered the art of looking pathetic in her new collar.
I’m glad they’re all going to be ok!!
Ramen wouldn’t take his meds after he got hurt either, not in peanut butter or anything. We finally hid it in small amounts of wet food and that worked.