Tag: dying

• Let the animal decide

  

  In the wild few living creatures survive an attack that leaves open wounds or broken bones. Wounded means weaker and weaker seldom flourishes. But our human instincts are to save a bird or save an animal that has been or is being attacked. Then our instincts are to then nurse them back to health. I…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  October 3, 2024

  Farm Animals, Photography

  animal photography, celi, chickens, countrylife, dying, farming

• Dying with the Full Moon

  

  Sadly, Harlequin died yesterday morning. She just could not keep herself alive anymore. The scours have see-sawed through her body since the beginning, never really letting up and the poor wee thing just got weaker and weaker.  So she left. Pneumonia took her away. Short lives are not wasted lives. We know this you and…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  August 31, 2015

  Farming, Life, Photography

  calf, dying, full moon, hereford pigs, kunekune pigs, pigs

• Hiding out from the Rain and the Story of Daisy’s name

  And then it poured!  Isn’t this grand, I said to the animals as they stood at their doors watching the rain come down.  Sometimes on rainy days we tell each other stories.  Daisy wanted to know why she had been called Daisy.  It all started with a rainy day I said to Daisy. With the…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  January 30, 2013

  Farming, Life, Photography

  cows, dying, grief, naming, rain