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14 August 2010
I am pleased to report that Pepe and Scruffy are doing well.
Pepe's wound is healing well. Very lucky. Scruffy is not limping now. Very lucky.

10 August 2010
Pepe and Scruffy get sick in the same week
Last week I was busy minding Pepe and Scruffy. They are doing good now. Off to the vet tomorrow again with Pepe. What would we all do without the great vets

17 July 2010
Scruffy bites the lock off the stables door
I brought Scruffy and Pixie into the stables as I was waiting on Linda Thompson, from The Donkey Sanctuary, to do a home check. Off I went to the shops to grab

The Diary

12 May 2010

Hello to you all

It has been great looking after my new mare. I have a name for her, thanks to my friend Jill, but I have to wait till I find out how to put a 'fada' into my typing as it is an Irish name.

Oh she is so gentle - just like gentle Jenny. She must never had tasted apples as she held off trying an apple for 4 days. Now she loves apples. She still won't try a carrot though - give her time..

Blackie adores his new mate and they graze so close together. Paddy thinks he is a huge horse instead of a tiny weeny Shetland pony! He came through his gelding fine and now he grazes beside Blackie and my new mare as if he were a true Big Lad. He is a cheeky fella and he gave the farrier a real hard time. Poor Paddy never had his feet done before. So all new experiences for Paddy - wait till I get the Equine Dentist to check him!

Scruffy and Pixe are doing well too. Mind you Pixie drove me close to insanity when I had the farrier up. You would think Pixie would trust me now but oh no - it took me 3 hours to get him to come into the stables - if there are carrots and apples going well Pixie is right over to me - but he won't let me catch him too easy. He must really have suffered in his past life with some cruel humans and he will take a long time to trust anyone except for his own kind: Scruffy, Blackie, Paddy and my new mare.

So all is well here. I will take more photos of my new mare and show you how she is doing. She is so thin I have a coat on her as she needs some insulation if it rains. She has terrible rain scald all along her back but this is healing well now and her coat is beginning to grow back in the bald patches. The raw scabs from rain scald have dried up. She is eating very well and I feed her in the stables on her own so no one can steal her much needed calories. I feed her a bucket of cereal every day but the rest of the Big Lads are grazing on the new grass so they don't need the extra feed at the moment.

I've just come in from grooming my new mare and she loved it - so did I. I sang songs to her as I brushed her gently and she almost fell asleep. She is just so beautiful. I am so lucky to have her here at Horn Head Pet Sanctuary.

Talk Soon

Annette