Homer is eating like a pig today! No, wait, he’s eating like a SHEEP! He drank down 2 ounces (about an inch of formula in the bottom of the bottle) and cried for more but his little tummy was so round & tight I didn’t give him any. Sheep can eat till they explode, they are so numb. Really. It’s true. So I have to measure everything to be sure he doesn’t do that. There’s even a shot for sheep for ‘overeating disease’. Hmmmm…… I wonder….. if it’ll work on sheep, what about ME??? Not that I could give myself a shot, but maybe if I mixed it in my apple martini……
Note in the picture Homer has a new collar to match his outfit. It has shiny rhinestones on it and a little bell. When he walks about on his spindly little legs, he bleats this pathetic little baby cry and the bell jingles. This will be amusing for about a day, till he drives me insane. Homer is still terribly…well, terribly homely. Shhhh. Don’t say that in front of him, he thinks he’s pretty darn cute.
Here’s Homer waiting for milk to magically appear in his bottle. Note the bottle is bigger than he is. I think I’ll go weigh him and put him into a new jacket. Those doggie coats I knit up for the Yorkie are coming in pretty darn handy. Brandon says I can’t put him in pink, as it’ll turn him into a woosie-sheep, but I’m OK with that. We all don’t need to be RAMs ya know, Brandon!
March 26, 2007 at 6:41 pm
My understanding is that overeating disease was called that because it tends to hit the biggest lambs; it really is some degenerative disease of the kidneys which renders them “pulpy” whatever that means, and doesn’t really have much to do with overeating! As for eating enough to explode: I think that would be because they ate the WRONG thing, and got bloat, producing too much gas…I’ve never heard of one exploding…but then, I hang out in primitive-land, and don’t have much to do with standardized breeds, which tend to be stump dumb and not as healthy as the primitives. Now with these coopworths, I may have to be more careful…or, if they turn out to be as stupid as the rumors have it, I may have to get rid of them. I have a hard time with “stupid”.
As for pink, and woosie rams, it seems to me I read somewhere that in Germany boys wear pink and girls wear blue. It’s all in the context! And perhaps if we let our boys wear a LITTLE pink, they wouldn’t be such warmongers! But then, there are girls who are warmongers…I wonder if it’s because their mothers dressed them in too much blue!
March 26, 2007 at 6:48 pm
Pulpy? ” I have a pulpy ewe”. Well, I wonder what that looks like, exactly….