Hi everyone!
Don’t worry, Sally hasn’t started to breed sheeps… “My black sheep” is one of Sally’ horses, Platanito! Some of you will know him for sure! Well, poor Platanito had been limping for a while, and for a quicker healing, has needed a big rest, which also meant get out of the herd. But now he’s fine again, and first stayed in a field just next to the herd. That was ok, only Mister Henry was chasing him along the fence… As long as there was the fence, couldn’t happen anything… But it was time to reintegrate him into the herd… and I was a bit worried, I must admit, having seen Henry’s behaviour…. running to the fence, ears and head down… Anyway, it was time to do it, and Sally told me Henry normally isn’t a bighter or kicker, so… lets try!!! First I took out Henry and Benjamin (another one who has a bit black humor sometimes…) to another field, then brought Platanito into the herd…He walked around, easy, was more interested in the salt dishes (we give salt to the horses twice a week into half tyres) than in the other horses, and they also didn’t pay much attention to him. Only General Pintag came to say hello, and that was ist. I stayed there for a while, but everything was fine.
A bit later I came back with Henry and Benjamin, now it was time to do it! I really hoped it would work, I know more about these kind of situations with dogs (I’ve been working 12 years with dogs), and I know how that can look like… Not always friendly… Well, I opened the gate, Henry and Benjamin walked in… and… nothing happened! They didn’t even look at him! I was quite surprised, because Henry had been quite nasty to Platanito before, but it was as if nothing had ever been different. I was realy glad, again I stayed there for a while to be sure, but obviously, the “black sheep” was “white” again…
Otherwise everything works well here, we finally got a bit of rain today, after days of sunny warm weather, which was really good, it started to be a bit dry. We keep on training the horses, either riding or working two together in the round pen. And then there are all the tousand other things to do, cleaning and greasing sadlles, bridles, etc…, then I spent quite some time doing some gardening in front of the house, as well as cleaning all buckets, all tools, etc… There is really ALWAYS something to do!!!
I’ll leave you for now, my dinner is ready!!!
So, for those who are going to have dinner as well: “Bon appetit!”, and for all others… hasta luego!
Sip
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