Well, this is my first time online in several days because one of my close friends was visiting for the past week and went home late last night. Therefore, I didn't go online while she was here. Too busy!

Additionally, I have been working my butt off at the Cat Clinic. I have been working extra shifts (a couple co-workers have been gone lately) and it's finally catching up with me, but at least I get this weekend off. That should help a lot!

Besides work, the animals have been keeping me busy as well. We are finally done medicating the rescue foals twice a day. Now we just have to change the bandage and clean Romy's wound every night. It is looking SO much better, though, and she's walking great on that leg (has been for days now). We have taken some pictures of it because we want to compare them as the wound heals. No proud flesh so far, which is great, but it could still develop. Romy is getting a lot easier to catch and handle, but she is still suspicious of humans. Firefly, on the other hand, is GREAT with us now! She can be jumpy sometimes, but she lets us walk right up to her and pet her (she loves being pet) and she also is a HUGE pest while we doctor Romy. Haha. Such a cutie! Firefly has really come around.. She is shedding off her nasty foal fur (I call it nasty because her coat was all dull, thick, and wormy-looking when we got her) right now and it looks like she will be a gorgeous chestnut color! Her nasal discharge is gone and I haven't heard her cough in a few days, so her respiratory virus is either gone or close to it! Yippee! Romy has a stuffy nose still, but I think we just need to clean it out and it will be good. Haven't seen/heard her cough in a few days either.

I told my mom I want some money to build a shelter and the foal pasture for my birthday present (my birthday is July 29th), so soon we will be getting to work on the nice new pasture for the three fillies! Of course Remedy will not be joining Firefly and Andromeda until she is weaned (a couple months from now).

Speaking of Remedy.. She gave me a scare last Friday on her 6 week old mark. I came home from work and found that she was acting lethargic, drinking a TON of water, not nursing, and she had watery diarrhea. I called me vet immediately and she had me give Remedy electrolytes and probios and those seemed to work really fast on her. I think it was a mixture of dehydration and Serenity (her dam) being in heat at the time. It has been so hot here lately.. Gotta love Oklahoma in the summer. Anyway, also gave her some Banamine as my vet recommended. Almost hauled her to the vet hospital because of the diarrhea and fever, but like I said, she got better after we treated her. Her fever went away and after she passed some gas, she seemed to be good as far as diarrhea went. She is doing so much better now, but she still isn't entirely back to normal in my opinion. She hasn't been as active as usual, but she has been nursing great since Friday night, eating hay and grain, drinking plenty of water, and acting curious about everything like normal. Just not running, bucking, and rearing like she likes to do. That filly means so much to me so if I have any more causes for concern in her, I will call my vet out here.

Ash's kitten is getting big! But he was a little chubster right when he was born. Haha. He's so adorable. Our friend who stayed with us for the past week is going to move in with us (my boyfriend and me) very soon and I had told her when we found out Ash was pregnant that she could have one of her kittens if she wanted. Well, she still wants Ash's kitten, so she gets to have him for herself! I'm glad he will be living with me still, though. She renamed him "McKay" after her favorite character on Stargate Atlantis.

Anyway, that's the latest on the animals. I will add some more pictures later.

Had the vet out again this morning to look at Andromeda (bay filly) in particular. She injured herself two nights ago on her left hind hock and it looks pretty bad. Anyway, we had cleaned it and wrapped it Sunday night, but my vet cleaned it again this morning with some Chlorhexidine solution, then applied gauze with Nolvasan ointment and bandaged over the gauze. She also cleaned and treated her butt gash, which is looking so much better! But anyway, we now need to give Andromeda banamine for pain and swelling every morning and change her bandage, cold water hose the wound, clean it out, etc. every morning as well. Additionally, we have both fillies on Albuterol twice a day for their coughing/congestion. Hopefully it all helps! I can't believe Romy injured herself in their pen. On a PANEL nonetheless. I can't help but feel it is my fault, but there's no use blaming myself now. At least we got the vet out and are treating it. Hoping no proud flesh develops. Thankfully the wound wasn't deep, and also thankfully she got her tetanus antitoxin last week. Oh, both fillies got some more Equistem + B12 this morning.

Aside from that, both fillies were de-wormed over the weekend with Equimax (so was my 5 week old filly Remedy) and Firefly and Romy are becoming easier to catch, handle, and approach. They seem to be learning to trust me and I think they like being pet. I know where Firefly's itchy spot is and I know Romy is ok with me if she can sniff my head and gets pet on the muzzle first. They are both such curious fillies!

Pat and I are going to work on getting a new shelter put up for them asap. I can't wait until our new pasture is up either! It will be SO nice. Lots of grass and a bigger area for the fillies. It will be the "weaning" pen when weaning time comes for Remedy. She will be weaned with Firefly and Romy. Then Goldie and Serenity can be together in the big pasture.

Some exciting news - - - Our rescue cat Ash (rescued May 10th) finally had her kitten on Sunday at about 8:20 a.m.!!!!! He is a healthy (as far as I can tell) boy and he looks like a miniature Ash! He is gray and white like Ash, and has a tiger striped tail and white paws like mama, but has a white face unlike Ash. I was hoping she would have two kittens, but I'm just happy she had a live kitten and he doesn't appear to have brain damage from her getting vaccinated with the live FVRCP vaccine in May. I will put a pic of him up soon. I need to introduce all my pets one of these days. We have too many right now, but our foster cat will be getting adopted out soon and I'm looking for a new home for my rabbit.