2wk kid, bottle fed, sudden fever grinding teeth shaking

Brae Robertson

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She seemed to be doing better today. Visited her sister, nibbled on various things, drank about 24oz total.

Fever came back at 7pm. Shaking, teeth grinding. By 8:40 she was drowning. At 8:59 I prayed that my hand be true and that her suffering end quickly. At 9:00 she cried out, released her last breath, and at that exact moment a cricket started its song next to us. At 9:20 she was buried beneath a tall tree on the hill overlooking our house and the pasture.

I never intended to have baby goats, or even to bottle feed one. But four times a day I would set her in my lap and we would look in each other’s eyes, make little noises to each other, and she would wag her tail.

Growing up on a farm I was never this attached or affected by a death. She entered and left this world in my arms—it is all so very brief.

And we get up and do it the next day.
 

frustratedearthmother

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I am so sorry you lost her. You did right by her in her short life and gave her a chance. It is so very hard to put your heart into one of them and have to let a little piece of it go when they go. :hugs

And we get up and do it the next day.
We do. We all go through the hard times, but the good times make it bearable.
 
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