Sorry to here your problems with the mutt Wrighty and as you rightly say money does not come into it when they fall ill, they are unconditional and a lot of the time better company than some humans so you do your best by them, when I first had horses I used to insure them but when you get a lot it becomes uneconomical.
Bin busy today and after surveying the park where I have 21 steers the grass is now getting a bit sparse so I put a three bales of last years haylage in the feed trailer and planted it in the park, just don’t want them to go backwards and after seeing the results for Angus cattle in the markets of late I may bring forward the selling and capitalise on the apparent strong market prices, we shall see.
Hope your mutt recovers well mate and I see you had a bit more wet stuff but it avoided us down here, got the topper ont tractor ready for a bit of action hopefully next week, Buzzer.