Deworming Time! (Yes, we're still alive)

Yes, we are still alive here! And I do have to apologize for being a bad horsey Mom. I've barely been out to see Dollar lately, as every time I see him, I feel horrible that I can't really do anything with him. Sigh.

But today, we had a mission...DEWORMING!! Dollar actually seemed pretty happy to see me, and left his girlfriend with no problems to follow me into the coral. Yeah! Echo on the other hand, was not happy that I took her boyfriend away. It also helped that I had some corn-on-the-cob to entice Dollar. Hehe.

He happily munched on his corn while I tied him up and went to go get his deworming stuff ready. And then I almost blew a gasket. Why? Oh, because someone decided to take apart my English bridle. FULLY! Aaahh!! So needless to say, that while I grabbed his deworming stuff, I grabbed my bridles as well (English and Western) and put them with my stuff to go in my car. Urg...

Once I had everything ready, I got ready to do battle with him. Since I had to give him his heaves meds by mouth last year, he doesn't like anything shoved into his mouth. Especially medicine. Sorry Old Man. I did have to fight with him a little bit, as he was being a bit of a brat, but in the end we did get it in. Or most of it. He decided to turn his at the last little bit and got some on his face. That should teach him for not taking everything. Lol.

Can you really resist that face??

Treats

See what I mean about getting dewormer on his face?? Lol. He also doesn't look too impressed.

After everything was done, I let him back into pasture and reassure Echo that everything was fine. Sigh. I miss my Old Man :(

More Picture Spammmmm!!!!

Time for more picture spamm!!!!

Dollar with Echo

The two love-birds

Just too cute :)

Echo coming to say hi

Dollar coming to check us out

Brody trying to irritate Dollar by playing with his ears. It didn't work. D just ignored him and kept on eating grass. Good thing he's tolerable with kids

Brody showing Echo his truck

Brody playing with Echo and his truck

I Think Someone Has A Girlfriend....

Dollar's back at my parent's place in their side pasture right now. No, he didn't escape again. Lol. My sister Natalie got herself a new horse and they brought Dollar home to keep her company.

Well, I think he's in love. Apparently he hasn't left her side at all since they got put together and is always right by her side. Yup, it's love. :) 

 



Escapee

Sorry for the lack of posts lately. Not really much to blog about in Dollar world with me not riding and Dollar on semi-retirement.

But it seems that Dollar would like to keep me on my toes once in a while. I was at work today and left my cell phone at home (it's the only phone we have, so I left it for Keith). When I got home, Keith said that my Dad had texted me, so i checked it. It basically said that Dollar got out last night and was in the tack room this morning and that he had to be moved back. Wtf? The text didn't say anything if he got hurt or anything.

So I called my Dad up and he said that he found Dollar in the tack room this morning. Which didn't make sense because his pasture is a 1/4 mile away. And again, he didn't say if Dollar was hurt or anything. So I was a little annoyed about all this, changed into my regular clothes and was almost in tears. Apparently my pregnancy hormones are kicking into high gear. Sheesh. Keith said that he'd come with me to see if the fence needed fixing and he'd help with that. Gotta love him.

So when we got to Dollar's pasture, we saw right aways how he got out. I'm guessing that the kids that live there were playing on the fence lines and managed to push them right down to the ground. Basically low enough that Dollar could step right over them and make his way home. So Keith quickly fixed the fence and then we went to go get Dollar from my parents place.

Now I'm really lucky that Dollar knows where home is, but I have no clue when he got out and exactly how he got home. Because his pasture is a 1/4 mile away, he does have to go on or close to gravel roads, where people have no respect for livestock. But I also know my horse enough that he probably stayed in the ditch and ate grass on his way home.

When we got to my parents place, I went to go grab Dollar, but Keith beat me there (Wtf??) and said that he'd bring Dollar back. Now Keith isn't a horse person, so this really surprised me that he'd do that. Dollar's pasture isn't that far for me to walk and it would be good for me too, but he said that he would. OK. So I asked Mom if they know when Dollar got out, and she said that he was in the tack room when Dad went to go do chores at 8 in the morning. He did go into the garden and help himself to some samples (apparently they were yummy) and also went into the tack room and helped himself to some grain. I quickly checked Dollar over to see if he was injured anywheres, but he looked fine to me, and then I covered him in KONK because of the horse-flies and then I sent Keith and Dollar on their way.

I hopped in the car, beat Keith to the pasture and waited for him and Dollar to show up. Keith went to move the trailer that's in front of Dollar's gate for his pasture (so that the kids can't let him out) and I kicked him back into his pasture. He seemed happy to be back into his pasture. Now just hoping that he doesn't try to escape again.

Pasture Time!!

Sorry for the lack of posts lately. Haven't really felt motivated to do much. Doesn't really help that I can't ride :(

Well, Dollar got kicked out into his almost 2-acre pasture today. My Dad has pretty crappy hay at home right now and since Dollar can go out into pasture, he let me know to bring him out there.

So I grabbed him, got him away from Pretty and Sue and started our nice long 1/2 mile walk to the pasture. Keith was in front of us with the car and just making sure that we'd be OK on the walk there. And we were, except for the stupid horseflies. They drive Dollar insane!

Once we got him there, I opened up the gate and let him in. Of course, he had to go tearing up to the fence line screaming for his buddies. Once he realized that he was by himself, he wandered around for a while and then settled down to eat.

And I know he's gonna be in horsey heaven. The grass in there is up to and past his belly, so he's gonna be content for quite a while.


Can you spot the horse?


Eating to his heart's content.

Picture Spam

Seeing as I don't really have anything of me and Dollar doing our normal routine, it's time for PICTURE SPAM!!


Brody riding "his" horse


Madison on "her" horse


Apparently Brody wants to help groom Dollar


"Hello little person"


Dollar loves his little person


Dollar in his new halter. Yes, it's pink and purple. Don't think he's too impressed. Lol.

Ummm...I think Dollar missed me...Or is mad with Me....

Yeah, if you can't tell by the title post, today's visit with the Old Man did not go very well. I had gone out to the holding pen to see Dollar for a bit and was going to play with him. Was. I'm getting there.

When I got there, Dollar and Mars were both laying down and just being lazy. So I said hi, climbed through the fence and went to go take some pictures. Dollar seemed pretty happy to see me while I snapped some photos of him. I went to go say hi to Mars, who still hates me. Good thing the feeling is mutual.


The boys


Mid head-shake


Being all cute


Mars not looking too impressed

I got back to Dollar and noticed that he was shaking his head back and forth, so I wondered if something was bothering him. I went up to him to check and he went to shaking his head again and in the process, managed to smack me right in the chin, which caused my teeth to go right into my lower lip.


Lip from the outside...


And the inside. Ouchie :(

Ouch. Of course, in between spitting out blood from my mouth, I yelled at him for doing that to me and gave him a good smack. He knew I was there and knows not to do that. Old Man. Of course then, he had a pitiful look on his face that I couldn't resist to get on photo.


His "pitiful face." Lol.

After that ordeal (and loving him up a bit), I just figured it was best to go. I feel really bad for him right now because I can't do much with him, given my current growing state and I won't let anybody in my family ride him. I'm trying to look for someone who'd be willing to ride him a couple times a week or to lease him out because I know he'll go stir-crazy for the next 6 months like this.