As most of you know I am in love with Poodles and not just because they are pretty. I wanted to share with you a story as told by a fellow Poodle owner bout her special girl Vic. I read this story this afternoon and just knew that I wante to share it with you. She has just emailed me back and encoraged me to share it with you. Please check out her website too as I think that you will find it interesting. I am includiong the link in the post. Poodles are amazing creatures and this is just another example of why! Here is the story as told exactly by her owner.
Standard poodle, Vic (Lady Victoria of Marsan) has once again proved what
a great girl she is! There are so many poodles who have proved themselves
in the showring and get to brag... Vic is getting a bit old, we don't live
anywhere close to any shows and so she has to prove herself in other ways.
I think she has earned her brags just as much as any multichampion.
On the 23rd in subzero temperatures city-raised Vic helped me to deliver
and save 3 dwarf nigerian goat kids.
I live very remotely, totally off the grid. Had purchased bred goat does
last fall and wasn't sure of the due dates. Early morning on the 23rd, Vic
awakened me by whimpering frantically and licking my face. Assuming that
she needed to relieve herself, I opened the door to let her out. She was
off like a shot to the barn (which is a good distance away from where we
live). She bounced, jumped, barked and pawed at the door to the barn until
I got there. It was close to 10 below zero inside the barn. One of my does
was in the process of giving birth. The next few hours were very cold and
a lot of hard work! I pulled my pickup close to the barn (no power or heat
in the barn) and left the motor running. As the doe delivered I would take
the kid (average about a pound) to towel dry, with Vic assisting with a
few licks whenever she could. In a tremendous effort to keep these little
ones alive, I rotated their locations, from inside my coat to lying next
to Vic, back to their mom, then take them to the pickup to warm up. Vic
helped clean up amniotic fluid and took good care of the kids while I was
cleaning up the mom after each delivery. One of the kids had been left
with an umbilical cord that was several inches long. Vic first nosed it,
then started to chew it... needless to say, I was a bit nervous and almost
stopped her... But, she stopped herself, leaving approx 1 inch of
umbilical in place. All three kids survived and they are darling! What a
great poodle!
Good girl Vic!
Darla
Yaddapoodles.com
(photos of dwarf nigerian goats can be seen on the website of the person I
got mine from--camanna.com)
Go Vic! What a great story. Thanks for sharing.
Hi Gayle,
I went to the website. I would like to live there--what a great place. And all of the animals. People here are hiring folks with herds of goats to come in and get rid of their weeds and blackberries.