My personal Vet

School has started back. Hard to believe but Tina is in the 8th grade and Tori is now a Senior!

Day 2 of Tori's senior year started off like any other school day.  She got up, got ready, they left the house, fed the horses, dropped Tina off at school for her first day, and then she went to school herself.

And I did my normal morning routine.  I sat down at my laptop by about 6:30 starting work, took my morning break at about 7:45 and fed all the animals.  When I went to feed the goats, one of the young 3 month old babies did come eat.  So I went to check on him and he was burning up.  First thing I did was call the vet that sees farm animals.  No luck - he was off on Tuesdays.  Next I text my friend Denise, who owns her own vet practice.  No luck - she was off Tuesday as well.  She asks me what the problem is and I tell her I have a goat with a high fever.  So now the obvious question - how high is it?  After spending 15 minutes looking for some Vaseline... I got Dad to hold the goat and I got to hold the thermometer...  His fever was 105.3.  Next was weight - 34 pounds.  So I sent all that to Denise.  She said she would text Tori the dose.  (Not sure if I had mentioned on the blog before, but Tori works for Denise).  So my next question to her is can this wait until this afternoon.  Which she promptly told me "goats are delicate and that is pretty high of a fever and the sooner the better"...

So you all know what my dilemma is now?  I have to call the school at 8:40....  and tell them.... to let my daughter out so she can get some medicine for the goat.  I decide best not to tell them up front, I simply call and say she needs to leave for an hour and to ask her to call me when she gets in the truck.  So Tori calls and say "what is up!".  I tell her that I need her to go to the clinic, get the medicine that Denise has texted her about, and I will meet her there.  At this point I am trying to limit the amount of time on her 2nd day of school that she is missing.  So I get to the clinic and Tori says "Where is the goat".  Well.. I didn't bring the goat.  I figured it was pills and I would just take it home and give it to him.  Not so fast - it is an injection.  So Tori laughs at me and starts drawing up the medicine.

At this point I am trying to be helpful.  So while Tori is drawing up the medicine, they have a cat that is boarded.  I go in there and give the cat fresh water and I was going to be nice and scoop the litter box.  Anyone reading by now has to know what is coming next.  Sure enough the cat gets out.  Tori comes in there and gets the cat, laughs at me more, and says come on lets go to the house.

Luckily catching this goat is super easy because he loves to be picked up and held up to the trees to get leaves.  So I caught him and Tori gave him the shot.  So then the only thing left... writing a note to the school to explain why she was gone (she was only gone 45 minutes).  In the end everyone got a big laugh about it and her friends think I am crazy!

Later that evening I started thinking about Tori and my friend Denise.  How wonderful is it that she is so well trusted by her employer and how grateful I am to have a friend like Denise!  BTW - the goat is doing great!