Lunch Is Served. Again.

Awareness of the outside world. NPR: These American birds and dozens more will be renamed, to remove human monikers, Boyce, November 1, 2023.

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Back when Mathilda was elderly, I spent many months, maybe over a year, serving lunch. That meant I had to be around here at mid-day. When I was first at Stepping Stone, I had to be done by 1 in order to come home to serve lunch.

Deja vu all over again.

Both Rodney and Milton get lunch.

Rodney gets put up. They both eat. Sometimes Rodney stays in until dinner. Sometimes he comes out. Depends how much napping he feels like doing.

Rodney gets lunch because, except for a brief period, he’s always been hard to keep weight on. He goes in the stall because otherwise Milton eats all his hay.

Milton is on a diet. Even more so than usual. We think part of his crankiness might be low-grade stomach discomfort from over-eating. (Shrug. It’s a theory. We’ve tried everything else.) Since he will not self-regulate, we make sure he only has access to the amount of hay on his meal plan. No eating of Rodney’s leftovers. He also gets hay split into three servings under the theory of little and often.

One side effect of this is a very, very clean floor in the run-in shed. Milton tracks down every stray wisp of hay.

Both seem to be doing well with this regimen. Rodney has some weight. Milton does not. Milton might (???) be in a better mood. Enough progress that we will stay with it for the foreseeable future.

Rodney is elderly enough that one doesn’t feel that one is signing on to do this forever.

Milton is 15. This could go on for a while.

Onwards!
Katherine