Friday, July 30, 2010

Allergic to Tomatoes?? Poor Greta.......




A few days ago, I was busy outside feeding, mowing, cleaning up around the barn, and just doing outside chores. I always let the dogs out to run around and play whenever I am outside working. After a couple hours, I let them back in the house to cool off, and get a drink and rest. I came back in later, and was getting ready to get in the shower, when Greta followed me into the bathroom and looked up at me, and this is what she looked like.....







So, needless to say, I dropped everything, took her temp and checked her breathing, which all were fine. Her ears were very swollen, along with her muzzle, and I assumed that she had been stung by a bee. Well, I examined her and could not find evidence of a bee sting, and I think I figured out what happened.

She LOVES tomatoes and will pick and eat them out of the garden if I don't watch her closely. While she was out, I seen her over by the garden a few times, but I was busy and didn't pay very close attention. I have been researching and while it seems that tomatoes are not poisonous to dogs, they can have an allergic reaction if they eat too many. I'm pretty sure this is what happened, so I will have to really watch her from now on. She felt a little "off" for a few days, didn't have much energy or much of an appetite, but otherwise she was OK. I gave her Benedryl, and she is fine now, although it took several days for the swelling to completely go away from her ears and muzzle. Have any of you ever know a dog to have an allergic reaction to tomatoes?

Monday, July 26, 2010

County Fair Pictures.......




Good Monday morning all!  It has been a hectic week here on the farm, our county fair was last week, and we were super busy getting some of our mules and horses ready to show. Our week was full of practices, working, bathing, feeding, watering, etc...and we had record high temps which didn't help, but we manged to get through it. We just kept hydrated, and made sure the horses had plenty of water, shade and rest at the fairgrounds! 

I didn't ride in the fair this year, but I did show one of our horses in halter, and Terry showed a couple of his mules. Terry's nephew Cannon did ride our oldest quarter horse Dior in the fair, and they did excellent. They got the blue ribbon and a trophy in every pleasure class they entered.....I was so proud of them both.........

Here they are coming out of the gate ....




Showing off the ribbon and trophy.....





Here they are going into the halter class, where they placed second, which was pretty good considering Dior turned 19 this year! He is still looking great for his age........





Snapshots before the show started......




Eternal Lee Dior, age 19.......



I am running a little short on time, so the rest of this post will just be pictures from the week's events, enjoy! Have a great Monday everyone!












Here, Terry wins the blue in the Best Horse Mule over 5 yrs old with Jack.......






Traditional Terms  a.k.a. Mr T before his halter class (we placed 3rd in the class).......





Mr T Close-up..........


Well, thats all for today, I need to go out and feed, then run some errands, till next time........

Friday, July 16, 2010

Havin' Fun!

Just some snapshots of the horses today, I'm pretty busy getting ready for the fair which starts tonight......












Hope everyone has a great weekend!!