Timmy is doing much better. Most of the red angry, bloody tissue and swelling has gone away. He still has what appears to be bare bone showing but that is getting smaller and smaller. At least it looks like it to me. We are still rinsing his mouth twice a day with salt water and giving him a penicillin shot every morning. The doc also has us wiping the area with a fuzzy rag each time we rinse his mouth out. I guess its to remove any dead tissue. It all seams to be helping. Very slow process and at this rate it might be another month but it sure is better than the alternative. At first we were looking at major surgery or putting him down. While that looks less likely every day we are still not out of the woods until that bone is covered and the wound is completely healed. No pictures because we can’t hold him and take the picture and the last visit to the vet didn’t require he to be put under.

Ava is a huge hit everywhere she goes with her little head turns and squeaks. She is growing and getting more active each day. The other day when Lisa made her a bottle (syringe) and opened the cage, Ava scampered up one arm around her neck and down the other arm to get fed.

She also really likes being brushed after her bath.

Marcy, from Tennessee is coming down this weekend to pick up the two not so little red KuneKune cross boars we’ve been holding for her. I’ll be glad to see them move on. Not because they have been any trouble but I need to move some sows around and don’t want them close to the boars. It causes them all to go kind of crazy. I will still have one boar that needs to find a home even if it’s in the freezer. He is about a year and a half old registered AGH is anyone is interested.

Well, I took Timmy back to the vet last Saturday because I thought he had pulled out his stitches. Sure glad that I did. Our regular vet was back and he took one look at Timmie’s mouth and said that looks ugly. He pulled all the stitches out that the other vets had put in. Then wiped the blood and dead tissue away. Timmy has a bone infection in his left jaw bone. The doc changed his antibiotic and has us washing his wound with saltwater after every feeding. We went back on Tuesday after the 4th and we can already see some improvement in the tissue. We will go back in about two weeks unless something changes for the worse. Everyone is hoping that he continues to progress and all or part of the left jawbone doesn’t have to come out.  Here are pictures from Tuesdays visit. The second one is of him trying to wake up from the drugs. He’s saying just let me sleep it off. I had to go to work and couldn’t take him home and leave him until he was awake so we poked and shook him until he could stand.

MONKEY!

Lisa always wanted a monkey and last weekend she drove to Miami to pick up Ava. She contacted several breeders but decided on Poggie’s Animal House in Miami. They have been outstanding to work with. She is only about 5 weeks old and still eating from a bottle, well, really its a syringe with a nipple on it. Lisa has just started introducing her to solid foods.

Here are some pictures and a short video.

The title should say discovering a new toy. Lisa was uploading from her phone and auto correct must have struck again. We’ll see about getting it changed.

One last thing. we had two unplanned litters of AGH/KuneKune piglets born this week. The second litter was born the day after the first. There were 5 and 9 in the litters but we are down to 4 and 7 with no losses in the last several days. They are solid black with the exception of one little male with a white front foot.