Imbolc                                                                                       Maiden Moon

Vega saw the vet for the last time, probably, for this incident. Her recovery took a couple of weeks longer than planned due to a rogue infection by an e-coli strain resistant to all but two available antibiotics. The final treatment involves putting Artemis honey on the remaining open area at her incision site. That means getting out a kitchen knife, dipping it in the honey, then slathering it over the open wound. Supposed to speed healing by 40%.

One of Vega’s learned skills is door opening. She pushed open the sliding doors off our deck in Andover and unlatched the main door we use here on Shadow Mountain. I was sad a couple of weeks ago thinking that her door opening days were over. Not so. She now rises up on her hind legs, flicks the latch with her remaining front leg, the right one, and leads the pack into the house.