Shikoika's Journal

ok i so hate the world and its mother right now. We were planning on moving casanova ( pepsi) and duke tommarow, but mom and i just noticed that their papers say that they havn't been wormed in a year and two months. We cant move them without the worming because paula has a seven day old foal that she cant chance getting sick. now i have to wait for tania's answer. f********ck. !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! god om so angry right now. everythings so pressured. ...

Shikoika

Ok so I went to see Pepsi and Duke yesterday. Pepsi is offocially renamed Casanova when I refer to him, so yeah, get used to that. I'm so others will still call him Pepsi, but to me, he is my Casanova.

Megan and her mom came with us. We passed the exit on the freeway and eventually had to turn around and drive around until we found the exit again to get there.

So we got there finally, figuring that Tania would rather have her check....

Shikoika

Ok, well my morning started off adventurously. I woke up hearing possibly the loudest bird ever outside the window. Complained in my head, then rolled over. At which point Megan says,

"Uh, Katie, the cat broguht a bird in here."

Aha. The culpert revealed.

So I get up, chase the cat around until she drops the bird. It's alive, but barely wanting to move, and the one leg I suspect broken. So we take it outside. It flutters about...

Shikoika

Sheath Cleaning


Stick my hand up where!? One of the joys of owning a gelding is periodic sheath cleaning. This is a mysterious topic to some, so Pat Harris wrote these instructions which she posted on Equine-L.
Step 1) Check to make sure there are no prospective boyfriends, elderly neighbors, or Brownie troops with a line of sight to the proceedings. Though of course they're probably going to show up unexpectedly ANYWAY once you're in the middle of things. Prepare a good...

Shikoika

Ok So saw Pepsi and Duke again.

I noticed after I mentioned us paying for pellets or senior feed to the lady holdign them right now, I came back a week later, and Pepsi looks alot better and has filled out a little bit more. I think she started feeding him right after i mentioned it. Or maybe my memory exagerated his bad state i dunno.

Whatever the case, my baby is doing good. Cept they both have some healing bites and hoof scratches from when they were turned out....

Shikoika