Outlaw's issues continue.

Little Outlaw ended up at the vet again! Yet another abscess developed over his shoulder blades. No wounds, just like his nose. We drained it and put him on antibiotics. If another one mysteriously appears, we're going to culture it. It's all very odd!

Here's the poor little guy in the ever dependable hands of his Auntie, Dr. B....silly looking nose and now a hunchback!

Was at Mary's early evening last night and was very happy to have Buster come in for a visit...along with his brother Seeker, Meeko, Bear, Winny, Oakey and Sugar.

Roxy's recovery.

Well Roxy has had surgery on her broken leg and is doing great. I had to improvise a way to keep her away from the staples and incision. This is her new dress! Pretty, huh?? I basically took the sleeve of a sweatshirt and cut out holes for her legs. I had to make it long enough so she could not pull it up and get at the incision.

When I am with her, I can roll it up to give her a little more freedom when she's moving around.

Right now she is basically resting comfortably and getting spoiled as hell! She has made herself comfortable on Laurie's dog bed in my room! She spends her time sleeping on the bed and at regular intervals I roll up her dress, put her in a crate lined with papers, she does her business and poops and pees if she has to, then I roll her dress back down and she goes back to resting again.

She is being incredibly good and luckily staying quiet enough to let the leg heal quickly. It won't be long before she's back to normal I think! She's a lucky girl!

A terrible & tragic weekend in raccoon world!

Saturday was not a good night. Mary & I were grabbing a bite to eat when Laurie called. She was out checking the gang and Roxy came in injured. She appeared not to be using her leg. So we rushed back and luckily Roxy is a sweetheart. I had no problem getting her. Something is very wrong with her right rear leg....not using it at all and dragging the foot behind. But there are no open wounds which is good. She's got an appointment with the vet this afternoon and we'll know more then. Fingers crossed!

Unfortunately after leaving Mary's tragedy struck our little family. Laurie called me, she came across a raccoon hit by a car about a mile down the road. I turned around and met her there, my heart in my throat. It had just happened probably minutes before Laurie drove by, and it was really hard to tell with all the blood and the dark. Not to mention the lack of life and character in the eyes and face, but it was a female.

While we were there another coonie kept popping out of the woods....obviously looking for her friend. I finally walked down toward it to investigate. It started running away, but then I called and it stopped in it's tracks. My heart sunk more.....it waited for me to approach and finally came over for a sniff and a scratch. It was Stormy. So the choices were Tugger, Growler or Thunder back there in the road. I still am not sure, but he odds are against us. I don't think it was little Tugger & I saw Thunder last night with Seeker. So unless Stormy happened to make friends and start hanging out with another wild coonie (which is a possibility)...I believe it is our little Growler we have lost. We'll be keeping our eyes out for the girls out back still in the hopes of ruling them out, but that's just the denial speaking I think. Either way, she is home now...on the hill overlooking the pond she grew up on.


And finally we get to our little Outlaw. Don't panic....he's doing fine! He's in with his brother and sister and they are all very happy! But he ended up developing a little abscess on his nose! A silly little speed bump thing! Well it quickly grew and just as quickly popped and he is healing well with hot packs and antibiotics.




So....we'll see how Roxy is this afternoon. Luckily she is being very cooperative and that should help at the vet!

The family portrait and more!

Well here is mom and her new family! 4 new kits to add to the cuteness factor out back!

Can you guess what time it is???? If you guessed FEEDING TIME you got it!

Little Quinny is getting big....and he looks a LOT like Toto!

Momo being silly as usual!

Toto likes to hoard the food by planting himself right in the middle of it!


Momo gettin' some mommy time!

Sweetpea...one of the older girls, strikes a pose.

Poor Rollo still has a silly looking ear thanks to his hematoma. It doesn't seem to faze him at all anymore.


And just some plain old silliness from the gang......Toto.....

........Stinky.......

........Nosey........

....Quinny.....

.....one of the twins, I can't remember which....

......Momo......

.....and finally Toto!

Here you can see how big Quinny is getting! He's about 8lbs. now. Toto and Rollo are about 10lbs. and the rest of the boys are about 12lbs. now

A quick visit out back turned up sisters Silly and Red, and they are still getting along very well together! Walking right up to each other and grooming one another. Feisty was also out with Siren. They appear to be hanging out together as well. This time the skittish Siren didn't panic and run. Instead she looked to Feisty and he often turned to her and reassured her in between cautiously taking snacks from me!