I know I’m getting pretty dull, you’ve noticed, judging from my sad stats and lack of comments. But hey, that’s not stopping me from my relentless blogging. I’m pretty pleased by the lack of drama in my little world (as opposed to outside of my hermitage).
Yesterday’s drama with Big Mabel seems to be resolving. Once Tarrin looked at the video I sent her, she put together what the symptoms meant: Mabel wasn’t eating and was pawing at food because an adverse reaction to a vaccine made her unable to lower her head! Poor horse!
This morning I fed everyone early so I could test out the theory that she’d eat if the food was higher. See for yourself.
She ate her food, the food Fiona rejected, and Apache’s leftovers, which I held up for her. I did notice she could put her head almost to the ground, so she improved. Fiona was grazing on the edges of the pen, so I felt good about her, too. They all had good times the rest of the day, helping Mabel find stuff to eat other than the three hay bags I put out.
A busy weekend is afoot. Tomorrow is horse stuff, as Drew gets to meet a new human and the herd gets a new member. You’ll have to check back tomorrow for details!
After that I set out Sunday for another visit to Hilton Head, though without any fun sisters. Boo hoo. I’m glad Kathleen is back and able to help with horse stuff. I dread flying. I don’t want COVID again.
We did do exciting errands this afternoon. I returned my underperforming Viasat satellite receiver and got more horse food. The reward was going through the fancy new Buc-ees car wash. It has that dang beaver all over it.
Hmm. Perhaps my readers are right. I’m pretty dull these days. I didn’t even find an exciting snake skin today. This one is tiny.
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That snake skin is small, but you may get to observe this baby’s growth over the next years! BTW, one of our dogs had a problem similar to Mable’s. He would stand over his food bowl and cry, unable to lower his head. Our vet said a pinched nerve in the neck was common his his breed – to raise his food bowl so he didn’t have to lower his head. Success.
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I’m glad you had an easy solution!
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Twice tonight my pinkie has hit the unidentified wrong key on my laptop keyboard and erased my comment – and the second time was a whole f’n paragraph. Still reading and enjoying your blog, just being quiet here. Then there’s today’s “liquid chicken” on the tanker. Ohhhhh, yes. Hadn’t seen that before, even here in chicken country for decades, the leftovers from chicken rendering plants have been hauled in big trucks with tarps tied down over the load. Locals knew to stay far back and we called them “gut buckets”. Take a turn too fast, parts sloshed to the side and the truck just MIGHT overturn. It has been less common in recent years, but one happened near the intersection of I-30 and I-630 in Little Rock about a year ago, and cars were sliding on the …. stuff…., tires were throwing it onto the undercarriage – general yukky mess. Glad you found the cause of the horse eating issues – I too was concerned.
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Ok, that story makes up for the comment drought! Ewwwwww.
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