The Vet comes in late morning which by the way is not a very fun way to start the day. Its down pouring outside and she comes in with her umbrella and rain jacket. She takes off her rain gear and hands it to the stable hands then she grabs her big heavy case and brings it to Coffee's stall. Elizabeth follows her to he stall. She explains who the new face is and our entire adventure as the vet works with Coffee. I pick up the vets name throughout conversations its Tiffany. Tiffany goes to check Coffee's teeth and Coffee freaks out she darts to the back corner of her stall facing away from Elizabeth and Tiffany. It takes a lot of soothing (and treats) to get her to come out of the corner this time they tie her up by a halter and get the very awkward, uncomfortable contraption over her head. She refuses to accept the thing around her face but the vet works fast and takes it off as soon as possible. Tiffany checks her hooves and legs then medicates her scars. She then moves on to Asia. Asia has a number a small scratches that the vet immediately takes care of she wraps Asia's back ankles and finishes up with her. She walks over to my stall and pulls open the door I am eating hay when she comes in. Elizabeth gets me to the front of the stall. Tiffany does my numerous scars first rubbing cream in to them which stings but also numbs them. She checks my ankles and she seems very worried about my front right one which is the one Elizabeth was talking about earlier. When she lifts it up again I look back and see a small indent in the bottom of my hoof and my ankle twisted a little. I lift my foot up as she puts a brace on it and bandages around that. She looks at my mouth and teeth. "OK I need you too wet down all of their hay and change the bandages on Asia and Daisy every day." Elizabeth nods in agreement. "Oh and don't forget they are very underweight so feed them a little extra and not to much exercise their lungs are still in bad shape from the smoke." She grabs her suitcase slides open the barn door "I will be back in two weeks for another check-up." Elizabeth jokingly rolls her eyes "OK" she says as Tiffany slips through the door. "Alright girls you heard her no rides and wet hay have fun." The three of us playfully nicker back to her and Eliza giggles. She runs to get the hose and Amy helps wet down our hay before Eliza goes to check on her twins and the day just wastes away.
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The sun sets and the barn is quiet I think about when we are in that old smelly barn only two months ago. I think about how we used to escape the stalls to eat and how I felt so lonely before we ran away. Then my eyes close and all around me is peace. A dream appears in my mind it starts with the herd. With Josh just running in the field with her. Dancing images of us and a foal but not just any foal this one has a strange sense of familiarity like I have know him or will know him. Then I see the barn but it is still up and looks like people live there again and the inside has been redone. The grey and white foal runs too it and prances throughout the hills and trees. And before I knew it I wake up to the chirping of birds and faint whinnies of others.
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The day blows past Elizabeth re-wraps my ankle and wets down my hay I watch as the horses come and go. They are being tacked and un-tacked groomed and washed the farrier comes today and fixes multiple horses shoes. Lucky gets bigger horse shoes (as usual) Vanilla has hers taken off and done again but only for the front feet. Lillian gets new shoes. Coffee gets her hooves trimmed and so does Austin and Tawny. Nothing else exciting happens today it goes as normal and all of a sudden its night time Eliza feeds us and goes to bed.
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Its the next week and Elizabeth promised to bring her twins to come see us. Its a late summer afternoon and I hear Eliza's foot steps and giggling. She steps into the barn holding two blond haired little girls. They both had blue eyes the only very noticeable difference was one had a ton of freckles. I stuck my head out of my stall door to get a better look. Elizabeth turned to Asia first and introduced the girls. "Asia this is Lilly and Lexi." Lilly reached her little hands toward Asia and petted her head it was more like smacking Asia's face but Asia still enjoyed it. She whinnied with delight and that made Lexi a little nervous. I gave out a little jealous neigh and after a moment Elizabeth started over to me. "OK Daisy here you go this is Lilly and Lexi." This time Lexi reached out to me and touched my nose but quickly retracted her hand, she was being a little shy. Lilly just stared at me and laughed. Elizabeth turned away and went back to her house.
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This week flew by and I definitely felt better most of my scratches had faded. My ankle has gotten better. Today the vet was coming back just for a quick look over Coffee had mostly healed she was still very underweight though Asia got her bandages taken off but she had one deep cut that hadn't gone away. I got a more comfortable smaller brace and the scars I had would go away in about a month. So we all had to eat more you could count a few ribs on our sides. Everyone but me was ride-able but not for long periods of time. Tiffany took her big case and slid open the barn door after filling Elizabeth in on the situation. Elizabeth got my halter and lead and took me to the round pen. She grabbed a lunge lead on her way out. It was beautiful outside I hadn't been out in awhile. She opened the wooden gate and led me in circled me around so she could close it behind me. She un-clipped my lead and put on the lunge lead. I started around the circle and I realized how out of shape I actually was plus my ankle brace was more mobile than first one but hard to run in. Elizabeth was swinging the rope yelling "Trot" and clicking "K K K K" I tried to go faster it was difficult. I hope she does this more often so I can be my old self. The hot sun on my back made sweat. I went around that pen what felt like a million times and my legs hurt and it was exhausting. Elizabeth slowed and brought me to her by the lunge lead she quickly switched out my leads and brought me to a lost outside the barn. Eliza tied me up and filled up a bucket and placed it next to me. She walked into the barn and returned with a sponge and a scraper. She dips the sponge in the water and wets me down. It feels so good. Elizabeth hums as she rinses me off. She goes to the other side and does the same thing. She goes back and gets the scraper to swipe all the water off of me. Eliza puts everything back and unties me to put me back in my stall. The water from my stall quickly disappears. She takes out Asia and does the same with all I hear is "Trot" and "K K K K" then after awhile I hear sponge dipping into the bucket and Asia being returned to her stall. Then Coffee is led out and Elizabeth looks tired.
ESTÁS LEYENDO
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