Starting from number six there are five new photographs on the Photo Page.
The white sands of Morar. Scotland. Janice.
Ben Nevis (the one with the snow) Janice.
Eilian Donan Castle, Scotland. Janice.
The Jacobite train from Fort William. The train was used in Harry Potter films as the Hogwarts
Expres. I got out to catch this and was covered in midges in seconds, my husband didn’t want to let me back in the car!!! Janice.
Looking down the hill to Ullapool. Janice (Leeds)
Starting from number six there are five new photographs on the Photo Page.
The house at Coleton Fishacre.Devon Janice of Leeds.
Legoland Windsor. 2007 Janice of Leeds.
Legoland.Windsor. Janice of Leeds.
Lunch time with the deer in The New Forest. Janice of Leeds.
Hill House (Rennie Mackintosh designed)
Scotland. Janice of Leeds.
Thornton is still not as he is normally, he is very quite, not attempting to go out just laying most of the time on one of the Dog blankets in the kitchen.. I have seen him eat a little and he has passed droppings and urine, amounts more than I would expect for the little that I have seen him eat or drink, but a least something is happening. I cant be a 100% but It could be that he has a small compaction in his gut and that it is starting to clear with the help of the liquid Paraffin that he had at the Veterinaries yesterday.
We managed to get Willow and Gypsy in to the barn area that we stabled them last year. Getting them in went a lot easier than I thought it would be. We are a lot later than last year in getting them in. I should think that they are released. It is a lot easier to have the Fillies in as they are in a large area that is not cleared until the Spring. Trying to feed them in the Field was hard work. The rain we have had has made the gateway entrance of the Horse Field very muddy. When you walk in to the Field with every foot step you finish up getting stuck. A few times I have left one of my boots behind.
Starting from number eight there are eight new photographs on the Photo Page.
I got that one wrong. There have been sent a lot of photographs today that will last for about a week.
Pelicans in Green Park.London. Janice (Leeds)
Here’s Dartmouth on a lovely summer day! We have a holiday home in Brixham, we love Dartmouth. Janice of Leeds
Roses – Hyde Park London May 2008. Janice (Leeds)
Atmospheric Glencoe. Janice of Leeds
Slapton towards Torcross. Devon. Janice (Leeds)
Slapton Nature Reserve. Devon. Roll on summer days again! Janice of Leeds
Ladybird poppies at Coleton Fishacre Garden. Janice of Leeds
The house at Coleton Fishacre.Devon
Janice of Leeds
First of all the good news. Arnie is much better today. Not completely right but he is eating well and he is a lot perkier. I can only guess but it could be that hew slipped over or even rolled that caused a strain in his abdomen. The problem was in that area by the way that Arnie was stretching his rear legs.
Now the bad new. Padfoot died this afternoon. I was going to mention in last nights Diary that we had seen him scouring on Saturday, he was eating well but had lost some weight. Some weight loss would not have been unexpected after the rutting season, but he was not putting any weight on now that it was finished. I was going to call the Veterinary in this morning to give him a blood test, but I decided first to phone Cricket St Thomas Zoo from where Padfoot came from to ask a few questions. There remaining Reindeer were also scouring badly and were being treated by their Veterinary. They had also had two Reindeer die over the past months. One before we collected Padfoot and one after.
I collected antibiotic and multivitamin from the Veterinary, that we injected him with at about 1.0pm. At 4.pm when I went to feed the Reindeer Padfoot was down and taking his last breath.
I had seen him as did Karen on the webcam walking about this afternoon, so to find him dieing really was a shock. We are going to take him to Bristol Veterinary College in the morning for a postmortem, that we hope will tell us what Padfoot died from. We are concerned for our three Female Reindeer after learning of the same trouble with the Reindeer at the Zoo. The only comfort is that Padfoot was scouring a while back and the Females have not had any problems yet. We are hoping for the best.
Starting from number six there are two new photographs on the Photo Page.
Unfortunately we have no more photographs to put on the Photo Page. Had it not been for Janice sending two in today there would not have been any.
I hope that I am wrong, but it could be that with recent lack of interest in both the Forum and Photo Page that both have come to the end of their sell by date. It may also be that the Forum is going in the wrong direction as I have received a number of emails from disillusioned viewers telling me that the Forum is becoming an agony page with too many illnesses being described with full details. I have always allowed a good amount of freedom in what is allowed on the Forum. Being a friendly Forum all using it want to know of the welfare of each other, but try to keep it to recent happenings.
Christmas Decorations at Chatsworth House.2008. Janice. of Leeds.
Christmas decorations at Chatsworth House, Derbyshire. Janice of Leeds.
We did have a few floods in our area after Thursday nights rain. It was only being told by one of our Holiday Guests and the amount of water around the Farm Yard that I realised what a storm it was, for I had slept through it all. It must have also been very windy as there were a number of objects, some heavy that had been blown about.
Driving around the Country Lanes delivering the logs we could see just how much rain there had been. The small brooks and streams had turned into raging rivers flooding many roads that we needed to drive very slowly through or we may have flooded the car. Last night we had a very bad frost that caused more problems with turning the puddles and wet roads into ice, that made driving this morning a little dangerous, but it soon thawed out.
After returning down the drive from a quick hour of Christmas Shopping we noticed Arnie laying down in the Horse Field. At the time he didn’t look uncomfortable although Arnie doesn’t lay down very often. On fetching the Horses in for their night feed Arnie was not first at the gate waiting to come in as normal and needed to be led in. He was very wet and cold under his turnout rug caused by both wet and sweat. He had little interest in his feed, eating very little, not like Arnie at all. He was also pawing a little at the floor and stretching his back legs as if in discomfort with colic.
We have rugged Arnie to dry him out and to get him warm. His droppings are normal that takes away one concern, and he seemed to be in less discomfort, although still a bit cold at 7.0pm. We will keep an eye on him through the night to make sure that he warms up and is starting to get better.