Wow .. it’s been a month since my last post. I suppose it’s not much of an excuse that February was a short month. There just hasn’t been much that I thought was worth writing about. That doesn’t mean I’ve been a total couch potato. In fact, last week I was busy breaking in a new pair of Dehners.
It was a good week for breaking in boots. They arrived Tuesday, and I hunted Wednesday, Thursday, and Saturday. I was a little disappointed when Sunday’s hunt got cancelled due to cold weather. I’m not sure if 3 days out of 4 is a record for me, but I’m pretty sure 4 out of 5 would have been.
Of course, the streak had to end sometime. Yesterday, Crossbo was gimpy on a front foot. In the absence of swelling or any other visible signs of injury, I guessed his problem was an abscess. Although I’m sure Arthur would have been happy to hunt today, I placed a higher priority on getting veterinary care for Crossbo.
Vet showed up this morning, and agreed with my diagnosis. But he was unable to find the abscess to open and drain it. He scraped around for a while and whined about Crossbo’s hard feet. I guess maybe I can cut out the Biotin. We’re going to go with the usual bute/antibiotics/soaking regimen and see what happens.
I hadn’t been planning to hunt because the vet’s office hadn’t been able to tell me when he could find time to get to me, and I didn’t see any way I could work around that. When he showed up earlier than I expected and was done by 11:00, I briefly considered knocking some of the mud off of Arthur and throwing him on the trailer. But I decided that unfortunately I just didn’t have enough time.
Since this turned out to be a monthly report, I looked back at my calendar and realized that last week was an exceptional week in an otherwise dismal month. Due to weather and other problems, I only hunted a total of 5 times in February, and 3 of those were last week.
I’m not going to jinx myself by making any optimistic predictions about March being better. But, with 3 more days in the month, I might try to post here more than once.