Tierra
Well-Known Member
Had a few PMs so as a follow up to my other post, here we go
Hes still being quite naughty to catch. Well actually, its not catching him thats hard but dragging him over the fields is. He stops every few strides to snort in the direction of the stables. It took me a good 30 minutes yesterday to get him in ;p
However! Huge progress on his stable behaviour! Hes now eating from his food trough with no problems. Hes also hanging his head over the wall when we go in and greeting people rather than staring at the door. When I went in to turn them out this morning, he was dozing at the back of his stable and he'd layed down in the night also.
When i put him out, he lingered around the gate until i went and got the donks (even though theyre still in seperate fields.) Hes also grazing very close to their field all the time. He even nickered at them last night when they came in!
Sooooooooo, i think we have progress! We're splitting the winter turnout this week so they can be right next to each other. Hopefully that will go well too.
Thanks for everyone who has sent me PMs asking how he is and those who made suggestions in the first place. He now has a radio in the stable also which i left on until lights out last night.
Oh and yes, the donks are still rolling on concrete
ETA:- VERY annoyed at the old owners of this place. Not only did they not muck out their poor donkeys for god knows how long but they left behind their cats when they moved. They came back for one of them the day after (a ginger tom) but they claimed the little female tabby was vicious and they couldnt catch her.. but they'd be back.
My OH phoned them today asking them to cancel their TV subscription so we can take it over and the old owner asked if we'd seen the tabby. My OH said Id been feeding her last week but she vanished at the weekend. We had *assumed* they'd come and taken her tbh. Anyway, they hadnt and he also announced he'd had the beautiful ginger tom PTS as he was wee'ing in their new apartment. He's a farm cat fgs! My OH asked if they even wanted the little female and they said they would be having her PTS also. Needless to say, we've told them to leave her alone and we'll have her. Ive not seen her since the weekend but ive put some food out for her now
If theyd just told us they didnt really want the cats, we'd have kept them fgs!
The tom was beautiful too :*(
Soooooo in total, they left us with 1 wheel barrows of [****], a broken dishwasher, two front doors that wont lock, 2 donkeys, a cat and endless amounts of crap :*(
Hes still being quite naughty to catch. Well actually, its not catching him thats hard but dragging him over the fields is. He stops every few strides to snort in the direction of the stables. It took me a good 30 minutes yesterday to get him in ;p
However! Huge progress on his stable behaviour! Hes now eating from his food trough with no problems. Hes also hanging his head over the wall when we go in and greeting people rather than staring at the door. When I went in to turn them out this morning, he was dozing at the back of his stable and he'd layed down in the night also.
When i put him out, he lingered around the gate until i went and got the donks (even though theyre still in seperate fields.) Hes also grazing very close to their field all the time. He even nickered at them last night when they came in!
Sooooooooo, i think we have progress! We're splitting the winter turnout this week so they can be right next to each other. Hopefully that will go well too.
Thanks for everyone who has sent me PMs asking how he is and those who made suggestions in the first place. He now has a radio in the stable also which i left on until lights out last night.
Oh and yes, the donks are still rolling on concrete
ETA:- VERY annoyed at the old owners of this place. Not only did they not muck out their poor donkeys for god knows how long but they left behind their cats when they moved. They came back for one of them the day after (a ginger tom) but they claimed the little female tabby was vicious and they couldnt catch her.. but they'd be back.
My OH phoned them today asking them to cancel their TV subscription so we can take it over and the old owner asked if we'd seen the tabby. My OH said Id been feeding her last week but she vanished at the weekend. We had *assumed* they'd come and taken her tbh. Anyway, they hadnt and he also announced he'd had the beautiful ginger tom PTS as he was wee'ing in their new apartment. He's a farm cat fgs! My OH asked if they even wanted the little female and they said they would be having her PTS also. Needless to say, we've told them to leave her alone and we'll have her. Ive not seen her since the weekend but ive put some food out for her now
Soooooo in total, they left us with 1 wheel barrows of [****], a broken dishwasher, two front doors that wont lock, 2 donkeys, a cat and endless amounts of crap :*(
