As a puppy she is hard work at the moment!!!! But very lovable. And oddly very cat like! She arches her back up while doing her morning yoga stretches. She washes her face like a cat, walks like a cat, and already jumps like a cat! I think we may have bought a cat! Although going on her legs and feet, she is a large cat (black panther springs to mind).
With this distraction, I have managed very little with the horses! Charlie has a cough, so I had the vet out, after trying Cough Mixture, Honey, Thyme and Garlic. The vet thinks its the dust and pollen so he's having a 10 day course of Liquid Ventipulmin and the Vet Special remedy (which I won't give away here) and it seems to be working. The Vet also thinks I'm mad...probably.
In case she was early, I had Charlie in the school making a video about worming. We then built a tyre pedestal and played with that. Then we went for a hand graze on the verge......Every time I sat down I was attacked by ants. So I started to crawl around on hands and knees, just following Charlie as he grazed, like you do. AND THAT'S WHEN THE VET ARRIVED!!!
Anyway at last the rain has arrived. Hopefully the grass will begin to grow again. It's certainly made it easier to push fence posts in. And so we have begun a track system for the big horses. We are also using strip grazing. So they have their water butts at the end nearest the gate with a long narrow track leading down the hill, round the corner and up the other side, to where we are moving the fence back every day so as the new grass is exposed, the longer they have to travel for water. It's a useful system for natives, making them walk further, and therefore keeping them fitter and leaner!
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