Shadow On The Mend.

Shadow is definately coming back on deck today... having not eaten for the past couple of days... even roast lamb didn't tempt... we are lining up for our tucker now & heeling me to get to the fridge faster... A Good Sign when I have a forceful if not pushy Blue Dog! DDH has introduced Egg Flip for Shad's brekkie to help get him back to being himself again. Oh Yes & Little Chipolata Sausages to take his daily tablets in also... Are we pleased to have him back home... Oh Yeah!!! Enforcing the Rest & Take It Easy part is tricky @ feedtimes as he normally bowls along beside the ute which just putters out to the paddocks to feed up in a rather steady as she goes manner - So Tis the Chain & Bed = Enforced Rest!!! But Yes we are on the Mend. Thank You Everyone who has enquired after Shad's Progress... But Hey what can I say - He's Tough.

To The Vet !!!

Woke yesterday morning to find my Blue Dog "Shadow" looking out of sorts - Not like him @ all... Thought we might have an infection so into town & picked up some antibiotics for him but when he wouldn't eat his raw chicken wings that night... I became pretty concerned enough to be up early in the AM to check on him first thing to find he had begun to bleed - Not Good! Into the ute & off to town ASAP where the Vet diagnosed poisoning from the Rat/Mouse Baits out in the feed shed. Not that he could get to any of the baits but had been eating some of the poisoned mice apparently & the amount of toxins had built up over a # of days. The Antidote was given immediately on arrival & a blood transfusion too boot - we had lost a heap of blood by this time... That day was a tough one for all concerned - you don't realise how much an integral part of your family they have become until they are not there to greet you on arrival home... Thank Heavens for "Shadow" & us that he is one tough Smithfield Blue Cattle Dog - A True Drovers Dog.

This is Shad's back home this afternoon in his favourite place on the doorstep to my Studio - still has the Wobbley Boot on a bit... but so long as we keep the Antidote up to him over the next month all will remain well. Needless to say there has been a rethink on brands of poison being used in the Feed Shed - no more TomKat... now using Racumen which bowls the mice not the Dog! Our Vet tells us that there is another new Rat/Mouse poison just onto the market & this new one has no Antidote @ all - definately no 2nd chance with that one... Frightening!