COTTAGE GROVE SENTINEL July 6, 2016
My Donkey is a
Pill!
Christine shared this experi-
ence with her donkeys’ veteri-
narian. Therefore, it is comi-
cally vet approved!
“‘Twas the night before
Christmas (well, late after-
noon),” began Christine, “and
day one of dispensing four
football size pills to Percival,
one of my two mini donkeys.
The instructions read: ‘Add
to grain. If necessary, crush,
add liquid, put in syringe and
plunge orally.’
I wanted to avoid the
‘plunge’ method, so luckily
Percival ate the fi rst pill along
with his vitamin pills.
On Christmas morning, he
ate them again. So easy!
On Christmas night, Percival
realized his vitamins/medicine
combo tastes GROSS and he
becomes a reluctant recipient,
refusing it until I sprinkle my
horse’s supplement over them.
All gone!
The next day, both meth-
ods fail. So I tried just the
supplement powder. Success!
Crunching. This is great! Then
I see four rejected pills in his
feed dish.
I dash to the fridge, chop up
an apple and tuck a pill into
each bite-sized treat with a
few decoys in the mix. ‘Al-
ways offer a non-pill stuffed
treat fi rst.’ Voila! So easy.
The next day? We’re out of
apples! Carrots to the rescue!
Same M.O.: cut, core, insert
the pill; bait and switch, feed
an unloaded carrot and then a
loaded one. Success!
The next day. Carrots eaten.
Pills spit out.
All is not lost, since the
huge pill size is a boon. I re-
trieved and re-dispensed them.
Percival had other ideas about
THAT! He began carrot-cot-
ting. (Donkeyism for boycot-
ting carrots.)
Equines swoon over sweets!
So I invent camo-carrots
(camoufl age carrots) doused
in molasses.
Noooooo! Percival wouldn’t
consider the candy-coated car-
rots.
On the bright side, all the
trips from the barn to our
house and back helped me
reach my goal of 10,000 steps
a day!
Now what? I did not want
to administer the purr-scribed
‘crush and plunge method’.
Think. THINK. THINK.
A new idea! Bread with
jam! It worked! One bite at a
time, times four, with the in-
troductory decoy bite. Twice a
day. Do the math. Percival did.
Pills rejected again.
Is the pill bottle bottomless?
The pills appeared to be ‘go-
ing forth and multiplying’.
I tried a $pendy natural
bread, (apparently befi tting
Percival’s palette), a fl axseed
bread, (acceptable and more
affordable), blackberry and
strawberry jams, honey (not
acceptable), grape jelly (too
bland), and apricot preserves
(so-so). I tried little bites, big
bites and unloaded bites.
I, ‘She, Who Only Has A
Kitchen Because It Came
With The House’, hate to
cook. Cutting apples, carrots,
and spreading stuff on bread is
like feeding a preschooler. My
husband is now jealous of the
donkeys’ diet.
Brainstorm: What about
the leftover, sweet-junkie
store bought cake treat from
our grandson’s visit? They’re
made for this! I excitedly add-
ed the ‘little extra something’
to the stale treat for the me-
dicinal crunch.
Apparently donkeys know
not to eat junk food - it was
another no go.
Courtesy Photo
I hand-fed our other donkey,
Sebastian, almonds as a decoy. Christine’s two mini donkeys, Percival (L) and Sebas-
Percival approached to see tian (R), outSMARTed her...almost!
what he was missing. Surely if
nating out from our barn into place thanks to them.”
Sebastian is happily munching
the night!
It’s no joke! A male donkey,
and crunching almonds, the
My new donkey problem? or an ass, is called a jack and a
pill coast must be clear.
Percival has to join ‘Peanut female is a jenny. When a jack
Are these pills magical? Butter Eaters Anonymous!’
donkey mates with a horse,
They fi ght infection and have
DISCLAIMER: No grand- they produce a mule, which
given Percival ‘Super Donkey
children were harmed in the are called a hinny. Oh! The
Powers’! He can now detect
making of this epic. Despite jokes that come to mind!
pills like an eagle soaring at
the ingredients in the colorful
Dolly, a champion Peking-
5,000 feet can spot a mouse.
cake treat, our grandson is still ese, says, “I don’t like taking
Percival curls his upper lip and
alive and well.”
medicine, but I love all the dif-
his ears go wonky at the fi rst
ferent treats my mother tries
scent of ‘eau de meds’, dem-
hiding them in.”
onstrating his disgust. And,
Tips
I must say this article also
once the pills begin crunching
rings true for our cats . . . and
in his mouth, he does the in-
“Sebastian is a greige Jeru- my husband! Cats don’t eat
famous ‘hock-tooey’ and spits salem donkey,” said Christine, peanut butter, so we use ham-
them out while giving, ‘the I “so-called because he has a
burger, but it is a good thing
told you so!’ look to Sebas- dark dorsal stripe and another
Mr. Angel Scribe likes peanut
tian (while Sebastian happily one across his shoulder form-
butter!
crunches almonds).
ing a cross. They are associ-
It was time to think outside ated with the donkey, who car-
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Birds welcome
variety that
comes with
backyard feeders
BY KYM POKORNY
OSU Extension Service
E
ven in summer when there’s
plenty of sustenance from plants
and insects, birds welcome the variety
of seeds and nuts offered in bird feed-
ers.
When putting out a banquet of
supplemental food, high quality is es-
sential, said Dana Sanchez, a wildlife
specialist for Oregon State University
Extension Service. Mixes with red mil-
let, golden millet, fl ax seed, rape seed
and oats are a waste because birds will
just kick those fi llers out of the feeder,
where they’ll fall on the ground and
attract unwanted visitors like rats.
They’ll also sprout and grow into un-
desirable plants.
Put black oil sunfl ower seeds top on
the list because they attract so many
different bird species, Sanchez said,
including chickadees, black-headed
grosbeaks, house sparrows, northern
fl ickers and song sparrows. To enjoy
fi nches, offer their favored nyjer seed,
also called thistle seed, in specialized
feeders with openings small enough to
hold the seed in and perfect for their
tiny beaks.
Many birds – waxwings, grosbeaks,
chickadees and robins – love fruit,
which can be put out on elevated plat-
form feeders. But Sanchez warns that
rotting fruit attracts wasps, so be pre-
pared to replace the fruit for fresh often
and use wasp traps.
Though people enjoy watching
woodpeckers going at suet blocks, San-
chez said the fat-and-seed mixtures are
best used in fall and winter when birds
need the extra energy to keep warm.
“There are so many natural sources
of food now, and in warm weather suet
goes bad quickly, which is not good
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