It's so good to be back home... Was in Jakarta for the past week and I missed the kids terribly as usual.
And when I got back late last night, it suddenly occurred to me that Cleo has been with me for over 3 years now... She has grown quite a bit from when we first got her...
So I decided to dig out the first pictures I had of Cleo - when she was only a 3 month old labrador pup...
Hi all,
Am absolutely swamped with work, so am just posting some pics of the kids...
Cleo
Lucky : his wounds have healed 100%
Lucky and Cleo playing in our room
Rascal
Mishka - seriously mad at me for caging him. He's had to be confined for a week cause he has just been given his booster shot...
The Poor dear... But he'll be out and about again by the weekend.
Cleo has been quite the grouchy labrador of late... My fault really... I haven't been taking her on her daily walks as I have been working killer hours, and I have been travelling for a bit more than usual too....
Sigh... hopefully after my next trip to Jakarta, things will slow down a little...
My friend, Kate, just left me a note on how veal is produced. I had just assumed that veal meant a young cow.
However, I had no idea that veal was farmed in a really cruel manner. Veal is completely different from just being the meat of a young cow.
"In order to produce veal, calves are taken from their mothers at birth and are chained by the neck in crates measuring just two feet wide. They cannot turn around, stretch their limbs, or even lie down comfortably. They are fed a liquid diet deficient in iron for 16 weeks, at which point they are slaughtered. All this to make their flesh pale and sickly. In order to keep the calves alive in these conditions, drugs are needed. Veal is among the most likely meat to contain illegal drug residues which pose a threat to human consumers." from Animal Protection and Rescue League
Please click here to see how veal is produced. Also see http://www.veganswers.com/ for those of you who might be considering going vegetarian.
Lucky is a real monster!!!
Three days ago there was a massive fight between Lucky and Rascal!!!
Basically I was trying to take the garbage out when Cleo suddenly jumped on me from behind. This resulted in me being pushed forward and thus the grilled gate flew open. Cleo then charged out and Lucky followed suit before I could do anything.
Lucky immediately attacked Rascal… who retaliated. And within 2 seconds a full scale dog fight had started.
Cleo then joined in to try and save Lucky… but she was a terrible fighter cause she's just so friendly and gentle. The only thing she had going for her was her weight so she managed to throw Rascal off Lucky a few times when she jumped on him.
I got the hose and turned it on as soon as I could… but Lucky and Rascal were determined to sink their teeth into each oher.
After a bit I decided that the hose was not working… and so I jumped in and dragged Cleo out of it… Shoved her back into the house and then turned the hose back onto the two of them. They continued fighting despite being sprayed with water and I literally had to hose them right in the face at close range before they stopped. I then dragged Lucky back into the house as quickly as I could…
I checked Rascal and he was okay…
Then I went in to look at Lucky but of course as usual he wouldn’t let me check him… but I knew I had to...
I grabbed the steel chain link and went to the kitchen. I knew that both Cleo and Lucky loved sticking their heads out the back door…
I opened the door and true enough they both came running and I managed to chain Lucky to the back grilled gate. Managed to look him over quickly and noticed he had about 5 very small nicks, and his right fore-leg was swollen… He was also covered in saliva and dirt!!!
So I washed him forcibly and dried him… and managed to put some antiseptic on his cuts. He tried to bite me several times and was growling at me the entire time.
Sigh… Lucky is just so difficult it’s not even funny…
Anyway he was okay for the next two days and then yesterday morning, Lucky gave me a real shock when I woke up.
He greeted me with huge moon face! His face was swollen beyond recognition. I knew I had to take him to the vet asap! His face was probably infected from the small nicks he received from Rascal.
But Lucky being Lucky refused to go. We had to sedate him and even then he tried to bite us. After about an hour we managed to get a muzzle on him.Then he refused to budge.
And he wouldn't let Douglas carry him which made things worse. So I had to carry him and I have no idea how I managed to carry him into the car and into the clinic!!! See Lucky weights over 20kgs and that's more than half my body weight!!!
Thankfully Dr John Singham (of Hayward Animal Clinic) managed to sort him out. Lucky had to be put under anasthesia. Lucky was given minimum anasthesia which was good, cause anasthetic can be lethal of not administered properly.
Dr John was an absolute star and worked really quickly and gently too. Then two small incissions were made so that the puss could be drained from his face and neck. His face was also flushed out with saline and antibiotic solution. And he got an antibiotic shot as well.
Anyway Lucky is fine now and he is one LUCKY dog...
He's just got a really strange temperament from the day we got him. I don't blame him for it considering the horrible experience he had with humans when he only a few weeks old.
But we LOVE him all the same...
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