and more animal sagas...

Firstly we had a BIG snake on the lawn this morning...it was dead..so I am guessing the dogs must have found it...it is over a meter long...Shauna very bravely put it in the bin! Thankfully it doesn't appear that the dogs were bitten..it is a dugite...we had about 10 babies around and in the house last summer..but I have never seen a big one...

Chief seems to be doing ok with his lycra hood and coat...thought the mozzies still find the gaps around his throat and chest so more spray and cream tonight...

And I had my first ride here on him today as the lumps on his body were mostly gone! Just a gentle walk around the paddock as I did not want him to sweat and make his bites itchy!

But poor old Jazz has been back to the vet...more injections and more pills...and she now has a "collar" bucket thing on her head...this is what her nose was like today...getting worse...as she is scratching and rubbing it on everything...so hopefully it will be a lot better by morning...the vet couldn't clean it or put cream on as it was too sore...horrid isn't it...and she can lick it with her long tongue...

Jazz is in the pool area tonight as that is enclosed by flyscreen and I can keep an eye on her...and I have put another mozzie zapper out there...and the cats are staying on the other side of the pool fencing!

I am hoping the animal sagas are at an end...though if Jazz isn't lots better we will be heading back to the vet in the morning...Lissy

more equine and canine mozzies sagas...

Well not only are the mosquitoes keen on thoroughbred horses they also seem to like Wiemaraner dogs....I noticed Jazz had a lot of bumps on her last night too...so sprayed her with repellent as well...

Then this morning I got up to see this...look at her poor nose...so I took her off to the vet... a couple of injections and some pills to give her and hopefully it will start to heal in the next 24 hours...so long as she doesn't keep scratching...cream is no good as she licks it off...

I was relieved to see when I took Chief's bug rug off today most of his lumps were going down under the coat...but his face was still munched...

I bought some pour on repellent to use tonight...and some cream to put on his ears and nose...it stinks but he was fairly tolerant...and a new fly mask he can wear at night...I am putting garlic in his feed and apparently yellow sulphur is good too...

I might try and give Jazz garlic too...and I have put a huge mosquito zapper over near the dog yard to see it that helps control mosquitoes around the yard and horses...

I will keep spraying them, using the stinky cream on their noses and using the bug rug over the next few weeks until hopefully the mosquitoes bugger off!

So about $400 in vet bills, bug rugs, sprays and potions later we are beating the mozzies hopefully! Apparently the council has not been spraying so much recently...Lissy