But cold this morning.
Julian and Banjoe discuss who is going to get petted first. They run to whomever comes out and expect attention.
OK. We'll both get loved at the same time.
Aurora, Chardonnay and Sunny taught me a good lesson today. When I went to feed, the girls were standing where Cajun had been with them. It seemed as though they were sharing their grief. Aurora, especially, misses him. When I drove up, they scattered to the wind, their tails high over their backs , ready to eat. They said to me Put your grief in that special place in your heart where sadness lives, then live for today. Live for the living. OK, girls. Good advice. I can do that.
Nothing is better than horses in your front yard....
Except horses in the back yard.
Sweetie Pie the Hackney Pony and Tucker the mule are an odd couple. She only likes Tucker and he likes everybody. She is little and petite and gaited and he is rather clumsy with his bowed tendon. I need to make a correction on something I wrote a while ago. A mule has a DONKEY father and a HORSE mother while a hinny has a HORSE father and a DONKEY mother. Sorry for the mix-up. Sweetie Pie will either eat alone or with Tucker and Tucker will eat with anyone.
I couldn't make it to the lower barn without being mugged by Ruby, Tory and Braveheart. They knew there was something special for them in the buckets.
The little tiny orange tree has buds!! Maybe we will get an orange or two, if the calves don't eat the buds.
Love is hard to find in the tall grass near the front gate. Something has her attention.
Julian and Banjoe discuss who is going to get petted first. They run to whomever comes out and expect attention.
OK. We'll both get loved at the same time.
Aurora, Chardonnay and Sunny taught me a good lesson today. When I went to feed, the girls were standing where Cajun had been with them. It seemed as though they were sharing their grief. Aurora, especially, misses him. When I drove up, they scattered to the wind, their tails high over their backs , ready to eat. They said to me Put your grief in that special place in your heart where sadness lives, then live for today. Live for the living. OK, girls. Good advice. I can do that.
Nothing is better than horses in your front yard....
Except horses in the back yard.
Sweetie Pie the Hackney Pony and Tucker the mule are an odd couple. She only likes Tucker and he likes everybody. She is little and petite and gaited and he is rather clumsy with his bowed tendon. I need to make a correction on something I wrote a while ago. A mule has a DONKEY father and a HORSE mother while a hinny has a HORSE father and a DONKEY mother. Sorry for the mix-up. Sweetie Pie will either eat alone or with Tucker and Tucker will eat with anyone.
I couldn't make it to the lower barn without being mugged by Ruby, Tory and Braveheart. They knew there was something special for them in the buckets.
The little tiny orange tree has buds!! Maybe we will get an orange or two, if the calves don't eat the buds.
Love is hard to find in the tall grass near the front gate. Something has her attention.
Jake (always afraid of the camera) and Pico are my biggest boys. One is the tallest and the other is the widest. Jake is a PMU (premarin) Brabant rescue. He was born in Canada to a mare whose urine was used to make the female hormone-premarin. Premarin stands for pregnant mare urine. The mares are bred, then tied in a stall standing up for the 11 months of her pregnancy. She does not get to turn around, lie down or go outside. She has either a catheter or urine bag on her to catch her urine. Water is withheld so her urine is stronger. All the babies are due in May. The mare is turned out to have her baby, rebred and put back in the stall. Female foals are kept to make more urine and the males are sold either for food or slaughter.
When the drug industry developed synthetic premarin thousands of horses became useless. Many were slaughtered. Some lucky ones, like Jake, were rescued.
We got him from Animali in Santa Maria. He is truly a gentle giant and will be trained now that he has grown. Sometimes draft horses are worked before their bones are strong enough. He's ready.
Pico (Picante) the Westphalian enjoys his dinner. He is friends with a lot of the horses, but doesn't mind eating alone sometimes. He is the tallest horse we have- at least 17.2 hands. A hand is four inches.
The chores are done and
Pico (Picante) the Westphalian enjoys his dinner. He is friends with a lot of the horses, but doesn't mind eating alone sometimes. He is the tallest horse we have- at least 17.2 hands. A hand is four inches.
The chores are done and
And life goes on at Home At Last. Come visit us and share the peace.
Thank you for all the kind words and thoughts about Cajun. They really helped.
Thank you Diane P and Brian C for you generous donations.
530-514-1439 homeatlastsanctuary@gmail.com
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