4-Hgirl --- Me and my animals

[Baymule]

Good job on giving a shot! It can be scary on that first one but something tells me you handled it like a champ.

 

[4-Hgirl]

Good job on giving a shot! It can be scary on that first one but something tells me you handled it like a champ.

I tried twice on the same calf because I didnt get the needle into the calf so I pushed the syringe down and it got all over the calfs neck but I got the needle in on the second try.

 

[Baymule]

You did good! I used to be scared to death of needles, to the point that I'd jump off the needle and had to be stabbed again. Then I got rabbits. One got sick and I took him to the vet. One shot was $10. I found out that I could buy a whole bottle of the stuff with syringes and needles for less than $10. (we are talking about a LONG time ago) I'll never forget the first shot I gave. My fear of shots transferred to being the giver of a shot, the rabbit was ok, I wasn't. I stabbed the rabbit and in my fear, I pulled right back out. I tried again, did the same thing. I was a nervous wreck. I didn't want to hurt the rabbit, yet I was stabbing the poor creature multiple times and still didn't leave the darn needle in and kept pulling it right back out. FINALLY I left it in, pushed in the antibiotic and was successful. In learning how to give a shot, I got over my irrational fear of shots and no longer care. Nothing much bothers me and I owe it all to that poor rabbit.

 

[SageHill]

Well, @Baymule is not alone. First shots - eeeg. For some reason I had no trouble giving horses shots - a quick pound/smack pound/smack twist the hand and the third the needle was in. Boom and done. BUT -- dogs and sheep my hand would shake terribly. Not bad not but back in the beginning I hand and arm shook and felt like jelly.

 

[4-Hgirl]

I went out to go get a picture of Tic Tac for someone who wants her and I came back with 30 pics of the cattle in the pen with Tic Tac and there are only 3 cows, 2 heifers, 1 bull and 3 calves counting Tic Tac and 5 pics of Waffles and Tootsie and 7 pics of my Barred Rock rooster

 

[4-Hgirl]

Here are some pics of the cattle

 

[4-Hgirl]

Here are the pics of Waffles and Tootsie

 

[4-Hgirl]

And here are the pics of my rooster