Work: none. Heat therapy already. Will groom later. Rodney has had 7 out of last 8 days off, with little more than meals & a pat on the nose. My first horse developed complicated stable management diseases if I gave him even one day off. I hired a barn rat to love on him forContinue reading “Caution Feral Horse”
Category Archives: Horse Behavior
The Things We Do For Love
Work: None. Heat therapy. In high school, my friends would call on a Friday evening, “Hey, we’re going to a party. Want to come?” To which I would say, “No. I have to get up for a horse show tomorrow morning.” In college, I looked into the Peace Corps. I got as far as aContinue reading “The Things We Do For Love”
Ladies Night
On midnight Christmas Eve, animals talk. This year, Mathilda gave us an earful: “Nobody ever asks the other horses. You are at the barn, what two, three, hours tops? We are the ones who have to live with your choice 24/7. Okay, I admit, he’s cute in his way. However, 19 years of an arrangedContinue reading “Ladies Night”
Not a Mudder
Work: More rain. No work but a surprise heat therapy session. As it had been raining since breakfast, I assumed the day was a write-off. When I went to do a carrot check in the afternoon, I found my bold future event horse completely dry from standing in the run-in shed all day. Mathilda, aContinue reading “Not a Mudder”
Daily Temps
Work: PM heat therapy & groom. Ran out of daylight. Grade: none. We have a cheap digital thermometer, which makes taking daily temperatures a breeze. Beats the stuffing out of the days of glass thermometers & clothespins. Speaking of breeze, both horses break wind as soon as I, um, begin the process. Every time. It’sContinue reading “Daily Temps”
Equine Tics
Work: AM heat therapy/walk – top of the hill. He realized he was farther from the barn than usual but held it together. PM long groom/no exercises – yesterday’s trip down memory lane put me in a mood, so I fussed on him until I got over myself. Plus, he met me at the fenceContinue reading “Equine Tics”
Virtual Brush Box 