Sunday, January 27, 2008

Jessica - Horsetrader

Good bye Cookie. Good bye mini-mule. It was a short lived affair. Today, Jessica sold Cookie (the leopard palomino, broken-legged, ancient mare) to a horse rescue operation. I guess they needed her to act as a companion horse to some of the other horses they rescued. She definitely knows how to be a companion. In fact, our main problem with Jessica's thoroughbred (Faith) has been her intense dependence on Cookie. Faith just hates to be apart from Cookie and was actually going crazy working herself into a heavy sweat just because we loaded Cookie into this ladies trailer. It all makes sense though because when I picked Cookie up in the first place, all the horses she was with freaked out too. We think she is just a corrupting influence and makes other horses become overly attached to her. That bad habit should suit her well at the horse rescue though. All the other horses can grow to depend on her and feel part of a herd with her. Maybe it will help their mental condition...I don't know.

While the lady was here picking up Cookie, Jessica (out of spite?) told her she could have the little mule too if she could catch her. Then Jessica proceeded to help her to do just that. They caught the mule and off he went too. So, we have really been trading into and out of livestock alot lately. Jessica is actually working to sell Faith too, and with any luck, we'll be horse-free and ready to start fresh from scratch now that we a bit wiser and know what to look for. Live and learn I guess.

We haven't done this in a while, so, for the purposes of Mark's stats project, here's the breakdown for today:

Total cats = 2
Total sheep = 4
Total cattle =1
Total horses = 1
Total goats = 4
Total foul = 0
Beehives = 3
Wasp stings = 3
Trucks = 1

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