[Jacob-list] ?Scrapie????

[BISCHOW at aol.com]

Last Oct I had a Cotswold ewe go down.  We did all we and my vet could  
think of, but after about a week in our "guest" bathroom,we realized she needed 
 to be put down.  No one consulted Mother Nature.  She presented us  with a 
real winter storm.  I couldn't get 1) to my vet to have her pts and  2) to 
CSU in Ft Collins to have her posted and checked for Scrapie.  So I  called 
USDA vets. Great, except the one that covers our area was way out in  
Eastern Colo.  God bless her, she said if she couldn't get someone out of  
Lakewood, SHE would be at my house by 1PM.  Luckily she did get a Lakewood  vet to 
come.  He was fantastic.  He euthanized the ewe, then we   argued about 
where to do the post.  I ruled out the front  porch:  too d... cold, windy and 
still snowing and the kennel: I didn't  want to have to clean the mess up 
down there.  He finally gave in and we  posted her on the dining room floor on 
papers & a tarp.  What an  awesome teacher he was. Visiting we discovered 
Dale and I, as well as our vets,  were all at CSU at the same time.  He gave 
Dale & me a great anatomy  refresher course.  The samples were checked for 
scrapie, along with rabies  and several other things.  All were neg.  Many 
people would probably  have killed her or let her die and never report it.  I 
couldn't do that  with a clear conscience. Cost: 1 tarp and a little floor 
cleanup. A small price  to be able to sleep at night.
 
Louise  
you tell a horse.
you ask a  donkey.
and you negotiate with a mule.  


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