A few days ago here at Struan Farm I noticed that pet lamb Tootsie had an oozing, droopy left eye when she came up for her daily apple treat. We're still seeing some symptoms of "pink eye" in the sheep, pets included. Mickey had had it a week or so ago but recovered without an injection.
I rang Farmer John, who came over with the injection kit to see if we could wrangle her. I was able to call this year's four pets into the house paddock with a tempting wave of the bag of apples, but Tootsie wasn't about to be captured. (It's funny, but they're quite wary of lurking men, which I guess we all should be!) The working dogs were then deployed to round up the four pets and take them down to the wool shed. Tootsie has now had an injection and should be on the mend.
While she's a bit miffed with me over the ordeal she'll feel better for it.
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