The Vet Visited Encore Alpacas…again!
September 30, 2009 by
Filed under Just Humming Along
We have gotten to know our vet pretty well this past couple of weeks. It is not always like this with the alpacas but like with any animal there are times when they have their share of needs. Today the vet came to stitch up a cut on our little girl, Brianna’s eye. She cut it a week or so ago but the staples the vet put in didn’t hold so today we stitched it. It is always amazing to me how resilient animals and small children are. They put up with things that would bring your average adult to their knees and just keep going. In Brianna’s case, in order to protect her eye, the vet showed me how to put a spoon (concave side down) under the edge of her bottom eyelid to protect her eye during the procedure. It was one of those simple (to me, not Brianna) but incredibly bright ideas that works so well. Brianna did a great job holding still during the procedure and her eye looks great.
With Brianna back on her feet and her eye looking terrific. I guess I will have to find some other way to spend my time other than meeting my vet. That is until two weeks from now when our girl Sharona Rose is due and then Doc will be making his way back to the farm to see us again. Oops, I forgot, we have plans to see him at an alpaca farm open house on Saturday. I wonder if he has plans for Sunday…….
WonderWhyGal on Thu, 1st Oct 2009 6:15 am
Go Doc. Trup! Using a spoon. Now that is something new to ponder. Looking forward to you visiting at the Wonder Weekend. Doc is going to be here answering questions in an open forum so hopefully people will come with questions and be prepared to walk away with new knowledge.