For me, there were a lot of things memorable about that OK Youth Expo. \u00a0Not all of them are happy memories.<\/p>\n
Kela had the res. div. 1 wether and the champ div. 3 wether. \u00a0The was the first year of Pfeiffer goats being shown. \u00a0Fairvew had 5 class winners with goats from their first sale. \u00a0Including Kela’s pair.<\/p>\n
That was also the year that the fairgrounds were under construction, so that had to change the schedule of the show. \u00a0Sheep and goats shared a ring. \u00a0And also shared a “grand” drive finale. \u00a0Instead of the limo, lights and music, the kids got to ride in to the ring in the back of a gator. \u00a0Not quite the same. \u00a0But everybody did what had to be done.<\/p>\n
Knowng that we were gone, during that grand drive, my father-in-law was at Fairview, so he went to check on our does. \u00a0We had about 40 penned up in the corrals that were due in the next couple of weeks. \u00a0To his dismay, a neighbor’s pit bull had got into the pen and killed a bunch, injured the rest and aborted most of the survivors. \u00a0That is another story.<\/p>\n
And in dog related OYE 2007 events, Kela came across a puppy. \u00a0It was a corgi female that Tanner Miller had at OYE. \u00a0He was peddling this litter of pups. \u00a0Kela fell in love with the runt. \u00a0She kept her hid from me for most of the show, but I finally found out. \u00a0She wanted to buy this dog. \u00a0I finally agreed, but only if she backed him down on his price. \u00a0She did and she now had a new dog. \u00a0This is the tricolor Corgi that has ruled the place since then.<\/p>\n
Sasha has been a key part of this family for dang neart twelve years. \u00a0Sasha belonged to Kela, but once she went to OSU and then moved to California, Tammy, Duke and myself were allowed to be her keeper. \u00a0Kela and Sasha were kindred spirits.<\/p>\n
On Friday evening, Tammy found Sasha in great pain. \u00a0She had been run over. \u00a0Broken hip and leg, cracked vertebrae. \u00a0The vet allowed that we needed to wait to see how the weekend would go with her. You don’t just do a complete plate, pin and screw surgery on a twelve year old dog.<\/p>\n
When Kela was home for Christmas, she felt like this would be the last time that she would see her dog. \u00a0Sunday evening, Sasha face-timed Kela for the last time.<\/p>\n
\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0From Friday night through Sunday night, Tammy was taking care of Sasha. \u00a0At 1:17 AM, Monday morning, Sasha passed. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n That dog helped chase wethers from 2007 to 2019. \u00a0She ate tons of goat hoof trimmings. \u00a0Licked lots of newborn baby goats butts and loved eating hot dogs. \u00a0And had the WORST silent farts.<\/p>\n \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Ironically, Sasha LOVED riding in the gator. \u00a0I mean LOVED it! \u00a0Which makes me wonder if Kela had that puppy smuggled inside her FFA jacket during that OYE grand drive.?!\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n One last gator ride, Tammy face-timing Kela, Duke and I placed the coffin holding Sasha into her final resting place. \u00a0If you don’t shed some tears burying a part of the family, then I have no words for you.<\/p>\n Later in the night, via family text, we all shared Sasha pics and stories.<\/p>\n Here’s to all the good dogs and the way that they can become part of the family. \u00a0Have a good one and a better tomorrow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" For me, there were a lot of things memorable about that OK Youth Expo. \u00a0Not all of them are happy memories. Kela had the res. div. 1 wether and the champ div. 3 wether. \u00a0The was the first year of Pfeiffer goats being shown. \u00a0Fairvew had 5 class winners with […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/kellnlivestock.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2729"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/kellnlivestock.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/kellnlivestock.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kellnlivestock.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kellnlivestock.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2729"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/kellnlivestock.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2729\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2733,"href":"http:\/\/kellnlivestock.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2729\/revisions\/2733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/kellnlivestock.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kellnlivestock.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kellnlivestock.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}