Monday, August 17,2009

Monday, August 17, 2009

Monday morning and the weather continues to be very pleasant. Striker's eye looks worse and we have calls out to several people looking for a vet that deals with this type of problem. Our vet here is more directed to large animals. I got a specialist referral from our friends in S. Dakota, Joe & Jeanie Rodriguez. They knew of a clinic in Omaha and we got the same referral from John Rabidou to a vet in Atkinson so we decided to try there first. We had an afternoon appointment and made the trip. They decided we needed to knock him out and do a full scale search for the foreign object. We decided to leave him and head back to camp. About half way home we got the call to come get him as they couldn't find anything in or around the eye but infection. We called Omaha and the best we could do was a Wednesday afternoon appointment and possibly surgery. We left him in Atkinson and decided to pick him up at 8:00 am and head to Omaha.

Roading: Stan & I working the team.

· Lea, Clifford, Ritha & Hank -31 min. – this was a special deal crew to help work on Rio's problem.

Meadows:

· Rio – we had the 4 roading dogs hooked up and cast Rio out of camp then started the ATV and went along with – Rio came to the rig and while Stan tried to tap him – he jumped into a confrotation with Hank. I managed to separate them and then Rio got the message and left the rig. We followed up with a couple of light corrections for about half the brace. Then I cut Ritha loosed from the ATV and now Rio had a new target but we grabbed his attention immediately. He's a very nice dog that uses him mass to play and we needed to stop it the 1st time. It went good and he finished the brace hunting well with no signs of the correction. 32 min. He's really classy on the ground.

· Bart, Galt & Tequi – Bart was a late entry on this brace but it worked fine. Off to the races and Tequi hooked Bart only to have me break the connection before it started. She looked at Galt – then Bart and said I'm out of here and went to hunting big to the front. A powerful brace that just lights up the ground. Tequi was fine and all 3 put down very good races.

We got back to camp from our trip to Atkinson and Stan had done the chores so we went to town and ate dinner at the Golden Steer. Very good meal.