[Ag-eq] A day of horrors

[Jewel via Ag-eq]

My remaining goat, Heidi died today in, precisely, the same way as her brother, Minstrel, did a week 
ago:  absolutely no sign that there is anything wrong and then:  WHOOSH:  they are down and there 
seems nothing that can be done.
I called the vet, but he didn't have any idea, but made some suggestions:  an infectious disease as 
the 2 goats had died within a few days of each other, salmonella or some such, but, personally, I 
think that it was my old nemesis of Clostridia, which is a naturally-occurring soil organism which, 
usually, is quite innocuous, and then, for some unknown reason, it goes manic and strikes at the 
speed of light and without any warning.
The vet took a fecal sample which will be cultured and then he might be able to find out what it 
was/is.
I have had goats die of gastro-enteritis which is caused by the C organism, but not for many years.
When the vet came, Heidi's body temperature had dropped markedly, but on my last trip out to the 
barn to give her her next lot of dexalite, and found her dead:  she had died not long before I got 
out there, her temperature, judging from her nose and tongue, was normal:  very strange!
Not only did I lose Heidi, but my dog killed and eat one of my rabbits.  They had escaped: god knows 
how:  from there night shed and had come through into the backyard.  Guideon has been waiting since 
January for just such an opportunity and he took it, but Peter, the veteran escapee got away.  I 
don't know where he is now, but he was under the house.  I don't know how we are going to catch the 
little bastard, and I have to keep the dog on a long line until we do or I give up.

         Jewel