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Originally Posted by Patti I'm so glad they all went to great homes. How is Star doing? I loved her from the first I saw her. |
Star and Love are doing great. I just weighed Star tonight and she's all the way up to just over 3 pounds and they will be 6 months old soon. Love, also known as little Reg because she is so much like her mama, had to take a visit to the vet Sept 7th. On Labor Day the dogs were outside and I was playing with Sassy's celebration babies when one of them let out such a holler. We let them in right away and little Reg jumped up on the couch beside me, just like she always does. It wasn't long until I noticed she started to quiver all over. After looking closer, she looked like she had been stung by a bee or a wasp, right in front of her left ear. I cleaned it and gave her some aspirin and soon she was fine. It was swollen up more the next day and a I cleaned it again. By Thursday morning it had swollen up the size of a quarter and was about a half an inch high and soft. I thought for sure it was infected so off to the vet we went. She had a warbler (spelling). Of course I had to ask what that was. One of those big old bitting flies had got her and injected an egg and a warbler is the fly larva growing under the skin.........YUCK! Like major YUCK YUCK YUCK. He numbed the area and with tiny tweezers he removed this YUCKY YUCKY YUCKY thing. He said they are more common in the spring but she was the third one he had removed that week. I"m happy to say that little Reg is doing fine and the swelling started going down with antibiotics and only a slight small bump remains. Little Reg was weighed at the vets office and she is only 3.8 pounds. Boy did these girls surprise me. I would have bet money that they would have all, except Star, grown to around at least 5 pounds. I will try to get some new pictures of them this week.