Day 149 Microbiology

Hmpf, Jen is not letting me off leash any more! She doesn't trust me, she thinks I might go off and meet a guy. I am so infuriated she breaks our trust like this! Well, I probably would go meet a guy, but still! I should get the benefit of the doubt!

Jen, I am disappointed!

And usually, when we meet dogs while walking, approximately half are male, and the other half female. Well now it's either wizardry or a lot of cosmetic changes, but it seems to us we are meeting only (entire) males lately! I am delighted (and party-pooper Jen isn't).

Also, I just noticed nearly all of my regular friends from the park are male (not counting dogs of Jen's friends). Mety, Ronnie, Ziggy, Tafi, that boxer we always meet and I never know the name... only Ester is my female park-friend.

I miss these guys.

This evening, Jen's friend Tamar came over and we all studied on the porch. Jen said that of all the subjects so far, this one is the worst...

Bacteria and viruses... who cares?

Mycobacterium avium?
What about Astick throwem?

Day 148 Orchards and goodbye Lily

Today was hot, 38°C! Time to stick my tongue out and pant like mad the whole day!

I drink a million bottles of water an hour

Even the ground is cracked from dryness!

Because it's so hot, Jen decided to leave the fresh apartment and... study outside! I'll never understand her! In her defense we left early, so at the time we left it wasn't so scorching hot yet.

So we got up at 7 and headed out to find a study spot, far from other dogs because of the whole heat thingy (both my heat and the weather's heat!).

Jen likes studying against a wall or barrier of some sort, so I cannot be behind her, and so that when she looks up from her studying, I am always in her field of vision without her having to look all around. Also, the wall (or today the row of bushes) provides her with shade. She also likes being at the top of a hill, so she can easily look down and see me (or potential other dogs and owners approaching), and besides I get tired faster if there is inclination. And last criteria for study spots: there can be trees, but only a few bushes, otherwise I might be behind them and she cannot see me.

Jen's ideal spot, and the yellow is my imaginary perimeter I can walk around.

 On the way to finding such a place, we met Ron, who is usually in Luzanky. He is a male, so Jen peaked between his legs. Drat, he has balls, she said. Ball?! I want a ball! I ran over to him. He did have a ball in his mouth. Jen said he was fortunately interested in that ball more than me. So 10 sec earlier she is unhappy he has balls, but now she says she's happy he's only interested in the ball? Again, I'll never understand her.

Something a bit strange happened though. Ron never leaves his ball unattended, but today, after us playing for a few minutes, he dropped it and came over to smell me. Usually I hate that (the males do it in a rude manner), but today I felt like standing up straight, and lifting my tail.

NOOOOOOOOOOO Jen swooped in, grabbed me and said "young lady, you're coming with me!" Ron didn't do anything, but Jen seemed serious about this, so I went with her. I asked her why this was such a big deal. She said 7 crazy little Meties would be impossible to handle. Well, for this I agree, I don't want any competition from other Meties. But still, what does this have to do with Ron and me lifting up my tail? Jen handed me over her andrology notes, the exam she passed last week, as well as her obstetrics notes. "Here, study this!"

Jen and I studying.

It was hard to study, since the shade was always getting smaller and smaller as the time went by. We eventually were studying in the bush, rather than against it. Then we took a break and walked around. It was some kind of orchard.

Found plums (not ripe yet)

And apricots (ripe and delicious)

And apples (really small/not ripe at all)

And cherries (some were ripe)

 Who cares about food-trees, I like stick-trees!

What do you mean I wouldn't survive a day in the wild?

 It was really hot, and we were low on water, so we walked in to a nearby food-court to have lunch (around 11). We replenished our water and Jen quickly had lunch (still studying).

Where's my food?!

 On the way back, we met Lily and Bamba in the park. It was waaaaay to hot to play. But we are dogs, best friend dogs. We just have to play, it is our duty! So we laid down, and tried to play, the best we could given the heat circumstances...

Bamba is cheating, she doesn't have a black coat, so she is less hot!

Lily told me this is her last day here, and she will go to Israel for the summer. No... I will miss her very much!

Bamba, Lily and me (and Nadav!)

Goodbye Lily!

Day 146 Back to normal (boring) life

After this full week of work, I am a bit tired. We had quite a crazy timeshedule.

I still make red spots everywhere
whenever I get the chance

In bed with my toys

I still can't go on walks to the park, because of my great popularity with males, so we only go on leash around the neighborhood. When we get a chance, Bamba and Lily come and visit in the garden.

Jen started studying for another exam (this is just endless). This time it's about weeee tiny beings, smaller even then the parasites: microbes. And more specifically about ways of treating against them. For someone who claims to like animals, she sure has a lot of subjects about getting rid of them!

Oh my god!!! a hand!!!!

Last thing: I am slightly going crazy because it's been so long for me to run a couple hours straight. My brain is not meant for sitting around and resting!

Day 143 - 145 Horse clinic - Night shift

Jen and I stay hours and hours, often more than 10 hours a day... and sometimes in the night. Jen has trouble trying to not fall asleep all night, so she takes me and we keep each other awake.

The horses actually do a lot. At the exact time of this picture, a baby horse is ripping off his mom's infusion tubes.

It's only midnight... this is gonna be a loooong night

Between 2:30 and 3:30 we took a small break to rest... Ron (Jen's friend) stayed up and checked in the horses during that time.

Campus at 2:15 AM

3AM Great, now I am wide awake!

Deciding what medecine to inject is hard... at 4AM

 Genta has liquid coming out of her mouth...

Uh oh... this can't be a good sign :(

A naso-gastric tube

So Jen put a tube up her nose, and somehow the tube went down into Genta's stomach (horses are not very smart if their breathing system goes to their food system... but whatever). They aspirated the tube and 3 bucketful of green juice came out! Yuck!

After this we went out again so I could get some fresh air. All this maybe doesn't bug Jen, but I am not becoming a vet and I don't like so much all these disgusting things...

This straw looks soooooo comfortable right now!

Campus at 4:30 AM

 We can't stay long away from the horses. There is always an infusion bag to change, a lidocaine syringe to refill, an antibiotic to inject. Not to mention a foal eating her mom's catheter or a recurrent bleeding...

Back to the clinic.

Jen changing refilling the syringe

Daylight came back! There is hope!

At 7AM, the shift is officially over! But that's when everybody arrives, so we can take heart rate, temperature and peristalsis of all the horses before the doctor's round at 8. And then all the drug administrations, potential surgeries... Jen, I want to go home! I don't care about all this!

7AM: Zzzzzzz....

Day 140 - 142 Horse clinic - Getting to know the patients

Jen's been working for a few days, and is starting to understand the procedures and getting to know the patients.

One horse is there because she got one eye taken out. When I spoke to her, she said it's because she wanted to become a pirate, but Jen said it's because that eye had a glaucoma. I don't know what a glaucoma is, but pirate sounds cooler.

There's another one, her name was Hrubicka (Little Kiss) who had a colic. A colic is something that makes all the intestine pop out when you do a surgery on their belly.

So Jen and Ron (a colleague) had to put a big bandage all around the horse. The horse has a foal who always tries to escape whenever people are busy, so Jen put me in front of the door to guard it.

Stay in, baby horse!

This grey mommy horse is Quilona. She has eye problems so we put drops in her eyes. And her baby had scratches everywhere, but now he's better.

I'm tasting her food... yuck! It's dry grass!

Monty is another baby horse. He was born too early, and his legs were all twisted. Last week he had a cast on, but this week we only put a supportive bandage, because he can stand and walk properly again.

OK Jen! Monty's asleep! Sneak in and take his temperature!

Ah too late... he's drinking again

 This is Genta. Also a horse with a colic. But this one didn't make it through, and at the end of the week she needed to be euthanized :(

Poor horsy :(

And finally this is Archie, Jen's favorite horse. He had anemia and funny little red worms in his poo. Apparently the worms were stealing his food (nutrients) from the inside. Clever worms!

It's ok. Hay is lame anyway. Take dog food, it tastes better!

 There were a lot of other horses but to me they all look alike. And I guess they are not so bad after all, they are quite friendly. I started liking them (a bit)...

Day 139 Horse Clinic - The clinic

 The horse clinic is situated in Jen's university, right next to the sports hall. I would have preferred spending a week running after balls rather than horses, and I often tried redirecting her to that building, but Jen wasn't fooled so easily.

View from the horse clinic to the administrative building and library

The first and most important room is the Mety room. It's where I spent most of the time, when Jen is really busy or in the surgery room.

It felt comfy as I had my toys, my blank and a bowl of water

Right next to my room is the medecine room. It's where they keep all the drugs. I tried to sneak in and see what they have, but it's out of paws reach :(

Plenty of drugs mwahahahaaaa

Across the hall it's the examination room. As its name says, it's for examining the horses. It's also for bandage making and changing, skin lesion treatment, injection and other drug administration for horses who will not stay, but I guess all that would be too long a name instead of examination room.

I don't want to be examined...

Next part is the surgery area. It has a pre-chamber with pillows on all the walls, so it's not possible to get hurt even if you run against the wall. It's for horses falling asleep, says Jen. I can't understand why the horses would fall asleep, next room is the best room, the surgery room!

Green pillows everywhere, Jen's favorite color!

Surgery room, I am not allowed to put my paws in here

 The surgery room was full of machines, computers and tubes. It also had a big bed for horses. I guess horses are so bored of surgeries and that's why they fall asleep?

Then we get to where the horses are. It's a big hall with horses on both sides. I used to be not so good around horses, but when I am surrounded by them, I tend to become a little angel!

Hall of horses

Hello you!

  On the side, there is the junk room. It's an even bigger mess than Jennifer's bedroom!

Kiwi heaven, Kiwi loves boxes!

  And in the way out (or in), there is a place for visitors and clients to sit. And most importantly there is a coffee  machine! One of Jen's favorite spots in the night shift!

Again Jen didn't let me have caffeine