Passages and set backs

Yesterday one of the original chickens we bought with the house last year died during the night. When we brought the chickens in for the night, they were alright but during the night one of them (one of the black ones) was eggbound (in German Legenot where birds want to lay an egg and push and push but as they are too old to still produce an egg they push out their cloaca :s It's messy, enough said).
She is now at rest with the rest of our pets on our little cemetary.
Sammy is shier than ever. We needed to give her some medicine and she was so afraid and angsty that now she is actually crying when we come near her. *sigh* I don't know what to do .. we need to give her the medicine as she still has open patches on her back. And she still needs a good claw clip but that is out of the question so far, she doesn't want to get touched .. let alone being captured and held. I doubt she will ever be a normal family dog. which is really sad. So now we are back to square one and I have to find a way where I can touch her without her taking flight.
Lir on the other hand is getting more and more comfortable with us every day. He is a big clown with a boyish attitude and you can actually feel that he loves his home and us. It will be so heart breaking when he finds his forever home. But then again ... so far only two ppl were interested in him but when they heard he was only using three legs, they didn't want him anymore. Jeesh, he is not disabled. His right hind leg is just shorter, but he uses it for getting up and down the stairs and all.
With the days now getting much colder, we are still trying to find our indoors pace compared to our outdoor pace of the summer. While the door to our court yard and garden was open 24/7 now it is closed as we try to keep the warmth in and the cold outside.
All have adjusted so far though it gets increasingly more difficult to persuade Careto and the two little girls to go outside LOL They are sooo typically Southern dogs, as soon as it gets cold, they rather stay indoors in the warmth. Lir on the other hand with his big fur loves to lie in the courtyard (while my Southern terrors sit on the coconut mats in front of the door and look as if they are dying of frost bite LOL