DMAR Update for Week 4-21-08

Posted 23 April, 2008 in Alpaca Health, Maremmas, Alpaca General |

DMAR Update for Week 4-21-08

Athena: What can I say? Still no cria yet. We did have her looked over this past Sunday and the vet felt the baby move. Basically nothing more we can do. The vet says not to worry until there is something to worry about. Tom said to me this morning that Athena was laying on her side ever so slightly and that today might be the day. I laughed. Well it has to be one day, but I won’t believe it until I see it.

 Shearing Days took place this past weekend. We took two full trailer loads both Saturday and Sunday to the Cokely’s ranch where they had professional New Zealand Sheep & Alpaca shearers on site. They work incredibly fast and do a great job. It never amazes me how much fiber comes off the animal and just how slender they are underneath. They look funny with those long necks. Anyway, I guarantee they feel better having the fur coats off of them in the quickly warmer weather hitting Arizona.

Maremma Puppy, Gino: I took these pictures yesterday (3/22/08). Gino is now 4 mths old today (4/23/08) and he is a huge teddy bear weighing 63 lbs. His front paws are to be admired and Tom wants a picture of Gino’s paw in his hand to reference the size. Gino has quite a lovable temperment and is really coming into his own. He is now playing more with the larger dogs and just today went running with them barking at whatever it was he was guarding against. Of course Santino ran him over part of the way through and Gino decided that between Vincenzo and Santino they could take care of the problem. He happily ran back to Tom for comforting after he was knocked over. I took Gino to the vet yesterday for his rabies shot and health certificate. Everything was approved and Tom is looking at flights to send Gino to his new owner in California. He will definitely be missed by us, but he will be the alpha male at his new ranch and in my eyes he deserves to be just that.

 

 

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puppy » Blog Archive » DMAR Update for Week 4-21-08, April 23rd, 2008 at 9:09 am:

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