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A visit with Wendy and her new pasture mate Lucy

This past Saturday I was out at the rescue to help with morning feeding and found that Ms. Wendy has a new pasture mate. Her name is Lucy and she is mostly blind much like Wendy. She is a nice gentle horse who like Wendy enjoys attention and treats. That morning during feeding time we had to work a little to get her over to the feed bucket by having Sally one of the other volunteers go in the pasture with her and coax her over to her bucket. Wendy's pasture has 2 feed buckets that are not located near one another and Wendy has one that she prefers over the other so Lucy was designated the other one. Later that afternoon volunteers Sheelagh, Miaka and I put a fly/mosquito,knat substance on each one of them to help eliminate some of those annoying flying insects. Of course they were happy as long as they were being given a few horse treats (apple/mollasses treats-yum yum). At one point during the day I noticed Lucy following right behind Wendy going from one end of her pasture to the other. Surprisingly, they seem to be very happy together. I think Wendy is happy to have a pasture mate...and we are happy to have Lucy with us now....

a visit with ms. Wendy

Last Thursday afternoon I had some friends in town who had never been to the rescue. I took the 2 girls out - ages 14 and 16 and they fell in love with all of the animals and horses and especially Ms. Wendy. When we arrived there were several horses out roaming the farm grounds. Dickie and Doc -2 of the mini's were out as well as Passion and Slew who are adopted horses. When we walked up to Wendy's pasture Dickie and Slew were up socializing with Wendy so we just hung out and petted all of them. It was close to 4pm when we arrived which meant it
was almost feeding time and of course once that begins everyone becomes anxious to be fed. Since it was feeding time and the girls wanted to help we asked Bobby if we could help him and he said yes. We fed all of the barn horses first and then started to the outside pastures. This took us about 2 hours to complete and by then it was time for us to head home. The girls were sad to leave but knew that one day soon they would be back.

A morning with Wendy

Yesterday, being Saturday April 12th I was at the rescue in the morning for my usual Sat. Am Feeding of the animals. After everyone was fed, watered and placed in their proper pastures I took Wendy and Sweetie - who happen to be up next to Wendy's shelter some carrots and apple slices. They both were anxious to receive all I had in my pockets. After Sweetie realized there were no more she moved on. Wendy became alert to the fact that Roy and Scotty were in a pasture in front of hers and thought (I think) that they were in her pasture...she started loudly neighing and took off at a rather fast trot in their direction. Well, my heart skipped a few beats watching her going as if she were a sighted horse,,,, if you have ever experienced a moment of feeling your heart race you will understand that mine did while watching Wendy who is basically blind go trotting off after Roy and Scotty....What I have to learn is that although Wendy may be blind or have limited sight she knows her boundaries in her pasture. She stopped where she needed to and paced the end of her pasture neighing very loudly at those 2 in the other pasture...Now, as a human I have to wonder was she fussing at them, inviting them to come on over for some treats or angry that they were running free in a pasture with lots of green grass? I can only wonder,,,,