September is fast approaching and of course we don't have everything done we planned on this summer, but a lot has been accomplished.
The painting is done on the office/store, and we're getting ready to lay the flooring. Suzanne is working on scraping the underlayment floor today, so once that's done the "laying" can begin. We didn't find anyone to do it, so we are bravely jumping into laying laminate floor. Thank goodness for You Tube..........!! LOL At least hopefully the videos on You Tube will be enough to keep us organized, or at least out of trouble.
Got the test results back for Roper's surgery on his cheek. We were hoping it would be benign, but it came back as Soft Tissue Sarcoma. Because of where it was, it was too close to his mouth to get clean margins, which would have been ideal. Dr. Howard put chemo into the surgical area, we will watch him closely in case it does come back, not sure what the next step would be. He's only about 4 years old, is a very sweet boy and deserves to have a life. He will not be adoptable because of an uncertain future and will stay here in sanctuary.
So far we only have one tour scheduled after we re-open. We talked about having an open house but Suzanne wants to have a 25 year celebration next spring of BlackJack, John and I starting the rescue. We didn't know it at the time, but that's what happened. We will expect all our donkey loving friends to come out and say hi, when the time comes. Probably a good thing we didn't plan an Open House now don't think everything will be ready by Sept 1st........!!
A woman got in touch awhile back and wanted to come out and look at and possibly trim some donkey feet. Veronica has been studying hoof trimming, especially donkeys, but she only has a couple of them to practice with. She wanted to come out and trim a little and yesterday was the day. She was here most of the day, got some trimming done and talked about donkeys. She wants to come back, the donkeys liked her so she's welcome anytime.
We had a bit of excitement this morning. Suzanne was gone to town, Debra hadn't left yet and I went to doctor Kris. He came in with habronema damage on his "boy" parts particularly his sheath that I doctor every morning and it's just about healed..........!!!
Anyway I doctored him and was getting ready to leave. Waylon had been pawing the ground and I told him a couple of times to quit. When I went to give him a treat before I left I found out what the problem was. He had managed to trap his head in Kris' hay bunk, their pens are side to side. Kris still had hay and Waylon had ran out of hay in his bunk. He had ran his head between the top and middle rail which is almost wide enough to allow a comfortable fit. Notice I said almost, I couldn't get my finger between his neck on the top and his throat on the bottom. To add to the problem his head was trapped between the side of the bunk and one of the pieces of pipe that holds the hay in the bunk. He had very little wiggle room side to side on that, for all practical purposes he had none.
Debra ran to find John and tools, of course he had to come without tools to access the situation. Came back with what he needed to take out 4 nuts and bolts which unhung the bunk, Debra held it up while I helped him get his head out.
Thru it all he just stood there, which is one of the differences between a horse and donkey. Most horses in the same situation, would have panicked and ended up hurt. Waylon just pawed the ground until I finally noticed the problem. When it was over he wanted treats and when we quit giving them, he and Kris went off together in the wash without a care in the world....... !! LOL
No pictures, we were all busy........!!
We plan on letting the herd into the 20 acres we call Burroland this afternoon around 3pm. They will have a couple of hours to search out beans and succulent grasses before we "try" to get them back in their pens for supper. In a perfect world we would find Tula, the head jenny and tell her to go to her pen and she would. In the process the other donkeys would come out of the weeds and follow her. It's been a long time since we even tried that, and she use to be a pretty good pied piper. We also have Kris, Waylon and Roper that have never been in Burroland, I'm sure they won't be tired of exploring when it's time to come in. So it should be interesting, hopefully we can get them all rounded up before dark..........!! LOL
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