Winter is a difficult and frustrating time for me in regards to horses. I leave for work in the dark every morning, and get home just as the sun is setting in the evening. This gives me a short twilight hour to work with horses. Not to mention the feeding rituals that take about 2 hours every evening. Needless to say, most of Doc's treatments and exercise are getting done in the dark. Every evening I tend to his wounds and take him for a walk as time allows. On Friday we walked quite a distance down the road. He had never been that far away from home, but as long as I remained confident ((I can fake it pretty well!)), he followed willingly. He is getting much more confident about changing terrains. We played "follow the leader" over and around several obstacles, including splashing through the mud puddles in the road. I felt like I was 5 years old again skipping down the road in my muck boots splashing in the mud puddles! Let me tell you, it is so much more fun as an adult with a pony in tow! I am just glad nobody was looking :)
This is how his wounds look now:
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| Left |
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| Right |
He managed to scrape some of the scabs off of the left leg, but no other harm was done. Now we have a pretty good idea of how those injuries happened in the first place!
Remember what they looked like way back when the meat bees and flies were eating them?
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| Day 2 at Alicia's house |
~Jackie
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