All the Pretty Horses

How she did it, I don't know, but when I got home from work last night Snix was in the round pen with Pepsi. I tried shooing her back to her own pen (it looked like the gate connecting the two pens was open), but she kept running past the opening. Finally my eyes adjusted to the darkness and I saw that the two panels were shoved into the round pen, forming a V. The gate tie was off, but there was a piece of hay string still tied to 'em both, keeping 'em together. There was about a foot gap between the panels. WHAT???!!! How in the world did that girl sqeeze her big body through that little gap? I reckon the same way women wiggle themselves into two-sizes-too-small jeans. LOL! She didn't get through unscathed, though. She has a long, thin strip of hair scraped off her left side. Poor Pepsi got beat up on, too - Snix sunk her teeth into her rump in a couple of spots.... thankfully it wasn't too bad.

Gosh, she's had such an attitude lately. She's such a pig - I feed her enough hay that she doesn't clean it all up, then she's still begging. But not for hay. She wants feed - and she starts slobbering when I come with the feed bucket. LOL She's hilarious. Well, I only feed at feeding time, no matter how hard she begs (or nickers), but I did feel sorry for the fat heifer today, so I let her graze in the yard for a few hours while I planted shrubs and took pix of her, Pepsi and the dogs.

It was so funny watching Chloe (the brown boxer) running in the yard, playing in the pond, and following Snickerdoodles around. Chloe is simply fascinated with the horses. She likes to lick on them when they will let her, and she likes to bury her nose into their tails, playing with the hair without pulling on it. She sometimes tries to get them to play with her - I think she thinks their really big dogs. She picked up Snix lead rope a couple of times, playing with it.

Pepsi was laying down in her pen and Chloe trotted on up to her and started sniffing her all over ... Pepsi was okay with it for awhile, but then Chloe shoved her nose into her tail and Pepsi's expression changed (laid her ears back and looked like she wanted to say "don't put that there!") and she got up.

Pepsi's personality is starting to emerge, and she is just an absolute doll - a real sweetheart. She's now touching me (as opposed to simply standing still and allowing me to touch her) as well as following me... and she follows me alot more on her own initiative. She'll sniff on me, put her nose in my hand and lay her head against me. I'll wrap my arms around her back, lean against her and just soak up the sun while she snoozes.

I love our girls (dogs & horses) - they're good 'kids' and a great family.

This quote is with Snix latest escapades in mind (this is actually the second 'panel adjustment' she's made in the past 2 weeks) ...

Horses are born with a designated place to die, and they spend their entire lives looking for it. -Anonymous