OK!  I am officially traumatized!!  When our Nubian does kidded last spring we ended up with 3 gorgeous bucks.  This is the first year that we got so many and didn't lose any.  We knew that we wanted to wether them but my vet had been doing some research and wanted us to wait until the little guys were 5 months old before we wethered them so as to allow their urinary tract to fully mature and not be a problem later on down the road (a wether can have lots of troubles in this area).  Well, this is my first time to wether the bucks (we've sold a few and kept a few and several have had various illnesses and have died) so I'm a real newbie in this area.  So off to the vet we go earlier this afternoon for the dreaded appointment.  I knew that it was going to be pretty hard for them but I didn't know hard it was going to be for ME!! 

     The vet didn't have an assistant so I got to hold the pan of antiseptic for his tools and I got a birdseye view of the whole procedure!!  NOT pretty!!  On the way home I realize that I have no banamine so I can't even help out in that area!!  Poor little guys!!  And you have to understand that I have a very tender heart and love animals so this is really hard for me.  The vet assures me that by tomorrow they'll be just fine but I have to admit that I'm not sure that *I* will be!!

     When dh got home from work I told him all of the gruesome details and I announce that I don't know if I want to breed the does this fall.  Lo and behold if I don't walk outside and discover our buck in with our lovely ladies!!    So much for my plans!!  Does anyone else ever have days like this???  Sigh.