April 9, 2006

............Last week was spring vacation for Aundrea and I had promised her that I would take her to the shelter to play with the puppie up in the barn. So on Thursday we went out and we decided to go in to the main kennel first.............Oops! I know better than that. We looked at all the cats and dogs and found a little shitzu that was just so dirty and matted I couldn't stand it so we thought we should give the little guy a bath. Being me and always doing things ass backwards, we bathed him and then I was looking for something to cut the matts out of him with... I asked Stephanie in recieving and she said to ask Rene. So I found her and she said come in the surgery. She got out the clippers and I held him while she trimmed the big matts out,(she said I should have cut out the matts first.....That isn't the way I did it with Mona, years ago...But I guess she really was right).... we couldn't just cut him short all over, which is what he needed cause that is against the rules. Have no idea who made that wonderful rule!! Anyway as we were working on him someone called her on her radio and said there was a dog up front that had been hit by a car. She went up and came back with a little pomerainian.... I can't spellit...... she looked her over and then asked me to come and keep an eye on it while she went up front... Aundrea stayed by the little one we were doing so he didn't jump down and hang himself and I went to watch the other. I had my hand on her and kept moving it and looking and well there was no danger of that dog going anywhere. She had already gone to the rainbow bridge. Rene came back and I said very quietly ' I think she is done"... so she checked her and wrapped her in the blanket and said "I will just put her in holding". We finished the little guy and then I put him in his kennel and took a pekenese up to be checked. See once they discover that there is a volunteer in the place there is no end to the things that need to be done. We did finally get to go up and see the puppies. They are in the barn because the puppy room is closed for cleaning since we had a case of parvo. As we went through the gate to the barn we discovered a rabbit that had to be looked at. Aundrea discovered that there was also a rat running about. Well with animals and feed etc... yes there are rats. They even have special food for them.(Decon)
...........There were 4 puppies up there, 2 are friendly and 1 is very shy and 1 is just plain mean. He just sits and growl at everything that moves. We held the friendly ones and I sat by the cage of the shy one with the one I was holding and finally he came to the front of the cage to be petted. He just needs attention. After we were done with the puppies I told Aundrea there were horses in the pasture. Well she took off up there like she was on a mission. There were in fact 2 horses... she got to pet them both and she said she had never seen "real" horses before. I wonder what she thought those at the fair were? I think maybe she just meant she hadn't ever been up close and petted them. When we got home she told everyone about the horses. She had a very busy day.