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Jun. 18th, 2010 09:10 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
velessaHad a good ride tonight on Bo. He was feeling good today and went for a good gallop in the round pen, something he hasn't done in a while. It's been almost a week since I started loading him with the glucosamine and MSM supplements I got at the expo, so I wonder if that's helping him at all yet. We went for a brief ride in the arena and he not only picked up the right lead nicely, it actually felt pretty good to ride! Did the same for the left and then quit for the night.
Then when I fed him his dinner I hung around in the stall with him and had a veritable zoo come to try and steal grain from his dish. First there was the squirrel with the chipped ear and half her tail fuzz missing who lives under my tack box. She's really bold and comes out whenever she hears me pouring the grain and dives in whatever chance she gets, both in the aisleway by my box and in the stall. I see her and another squirrel come to eat with him all the time.
Tonight I took his dish and put it down in the stall and sat down along the wall and just watched him eat. Apparently once the sun goes down, the rats start to get braver, because instead of the squirrels I counted six or seven rats darting around the door of the stall, trying to get up the courage to come in and snatch some food with me in there. Only one or two were brave enough to come close enough to grab a nibble that Bo dropped. They were so cute, I didn't want to scare them off! lol I'm such a softie; I'm paying to feed the local rodents instead of my horse!
And then to my surprise this bronze pigeon with a missing tail feather I've seen hanging around my stall waddled in the doorway. It actually scared off all the rats by pecking at them! I had no idea pigeons did that. Then it kept trying to walk over and get in the dish, but since the bird was a much bigger target, Bo could easily see it and kept pinning his ears at it and shooing it away with his head. He's not one for sharing with those critters he notices trying to steal from him!
Then when I fed him his dinner I hung around in the stall with him and had a veritable zoo come to try and steal grain from his dish. First there was the squirrel with the chipped ear and half her tail fuzz missing who lives under my tack box. She's really bold and comes out whenever she hears me pouring the grain and dives in whatever chance she gets, both in the aisleway by my box and in the stall. I see her and another squirrel come to eat with him all the time.
Tonight I took his dish and put it down in the stall and sat down along the wall and just watched him eat. Apparently once the sun goes down, the rats start to get braver, because instead of the squirrels I counted six or seven rats darting around the door of the stall, trying to get up the courage to come in and snatch some food with me in there. Only one or two were brave enough to come close enough to grab a nibble that Bo dropped. They were so cute, I didn't want to scare them off! lol I'm such a softie; I'm paying to feed the local rodents instead of my horse!
And then to my surprise this bronze pigeon with a missing tail feather I've seen hanging around my stall waddled in the doorway. It actually scared off all the rats by pecking at them! I had no idea pigeons did that. Then it kept trying to walk over and get in the dish, but since the bird was a much bigger target, Bo could easily see it and kept pinning his ears at it and shooing it away with his head. He's not one for sharing with those critters he notices trying to steal from him!
