10/30/07

Bullet

Bullet is a recent addition. Both Carolyn and I had been trying to decide whether to try and find a new home for Windy, or to find a companion for her. When Carolyn saw an ad in the local paper for Bullet, and we drove over to take a look, the decision was made for us -- a companion for Windy. Bullet had been rescued from a local farm where his owner thought it was "cute" to keep him in a doghouse. The folks that rescued him had no intention of keeping him, since they had draft horses and nothing was scaled for a mini. So, we had another horse to make room for.

Bullet's nickname is "escape artist" .... he seemed to have no fear of the electric fence, and many evenings we'd find him in Moondancer's pasture happily "sharing" his hay! Twice he wandered off the farm and over to a neighbor's on the east - the first time he actually got into their corral (I guess he got used to being around larger horses!). Once he got away and ended up two doors east in an enclosure with cattle! I had to make some changes to the electric fence - standardize the distance between wires on all fences, and add a new grounding wire - the snow was insulating the horses from the ground too much!