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tek wrote: ↑Sat Apr 10, 2021 4:49 pm Grandpony is settling in at his new home, getting to know the local dirt

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Hopefully we'll get back up to New England in the late summer or fall and I'll get to meet him..

There's nothing like a good roll!

this just in: "The kids are over each other"

Lucky horses which have a fan in their barn! My little Crabbet boy Joey would be flicking that switch off and on all day, the little rascal. The one of the left looks as if it is saying "I know I can reach that switch if I stretch far enough'.

The horses at Princess's barn have fans in the stalls for the summer and fall heat. They only use the stalls for feeding twice a day and being available for the vet or farrier.

LOVED STEVE !!!!!!

Tiredretiredlawyer wrote: ↑Sat Apr 17, 2021 7:59 pm LOVED STEVE !!!!!!

He didn’t break into YOUR feed shed.

This is the Jacobs Ridge channel.
https://youtube.com/channel/UCuw8WR0_jLMazrkzJ4_yVPQ

Another “I’m not saying it was you” moment with Steve.

https://fb.watch/4XdXtjSXhq/

I'm hooked!!!!

I have a huge soft spot for donkeys.

I've got an African Gray parrot named Molly. We rescued her when she was about a year old. She's now about 15. She'll certainly outlive us and I'm starting to suspect she's grown unhappy. She's been laying eggs and acting hormonal. One second lovey dovey, the next she's trying to take a finger off. Hubs won't go near her, but, to be fair, he was always a bit afraid. She'll sit on my lap and soak up the pets, then when she decides she's done, it's off with the pinkie finger.

I just finished redesigning her cage/play area hoping it will keep her up on either her cage or her playground. Sometimes I find her wandering around on the floor. She's chewed up woodwork and even peeled some veneer off a lower kitchen cabinet but, hell, that's kids for you. If they drive through the garage door, you yell at them, then you call the garage door company and life goes on.

I'm planning on taking her to the bird vet next week to see what he says but I'm starting to wonder if she'd be happier in a sanctuary with other birds (but not a breeder. I don't want her to be somebody's money machine). She's so smart that every toy I give her she unravels in minutes and then she's bored again. We've joked for years she's our smartest kid and one of mine mulled that over then remarked, "yeah, that's fair." I'd read the African Gray has an IQ similar to a 2-yo child but I think she's smarter than that. She had quite a following on youtube for a while for her rendition of Spongebob Squarepants and another video of her telling the dogs to hush up when they started barking.

I love her madly and don't want to lose her but I also don't want her to be miserable and lonely. I honestly try to give her attention but now she's biting me almost every time I try to pet her. I have to wait for her to come to me and lower her head to be scratched, or else. I'm so confused. Anyone else have parrots?
Just FYI, another Gray isn't an option. They're very expensive and, again, we're in our mid 60s and these guys live to be 60-ish.

My husband's cousin is an exotic pet vet. I will forward your info to her if that's okay.

Thanks! We had a nice cuddle this afternoon so I feel better.

Slim Cognito wrote: ↑Sun Apr 18, 2021 7:33 pm Thanks! We had a nice cuddle this afternoon so I feel better.

My CIL opined that Molly is nesting which is why she is tearing stuff up. She owns birds also, a gray parrot too, I think. She said not to even consider moving Molly to a bird sanctuary. You are her family and it wiuld be devastating for her. Likely Molly is bonded to you as her mate, not her mother, like cats do, since you are the one she lets pet her and cuddle with her.

If Molly is laying eggs frequently (for her) it could cause calcium loss so she definitely needs to see a vet.

Also, too, she recommended Pamela Clark bird behavior specialist and Barbara heidenrich. Goodbirdinc.com.

I hope this helps. It was a great excuse to catch up with my CIL.

Tiredretiredlawyer wrote: ↑Wed Apr 21, 2021 2:32 pm

Slim Cognito wrote: ↑Sun Apr 18, 2021 7:33 pm Thanks! We had a nice cuddle this afternoon so I feel better.

My CIL opined that Molly is nesting which is why she is tearing stuff up. She owns birds also, a gray parrot too, I think. She said not to even consider moving Molly to a bird sanctuary. You are her family and it wiuld be devastating for her. Likely Molly is bonded to you as her mate, not her mother, like cats do, since you are the one she lets pet her and cuddle with her.

If Molly is laying eggs frequently (for her) it could cause calcium loss so she definitely needs to see a vet.

Also, too, she recommended Pamela Clark bird behavior specialist and Barbara heidenrich. Goodbirdinc.com.

I hope this helps. It was a great excuse to catch up with my CIL.

You might be able to fool her with false eggs. It works on some birds but I have doubts an AG would buy it.

Thanks guys!! Will do.

I've tried the fake eggs but you're right. She didn't buy it. If anything, it seemed to make her mad.

Is this the right thread?

“Mouse deer born at Bristol Zoo is the height of a pencil”:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-bristol-56841632

The latest on the two ponies
"Hobie is kind of sick of having a sibling"
(Hobie, on the right, is the 'older brother')

Hobie is probably saying 'Don't even think about putting your nose in my hay'. Is Hobie wearing boots? Hobie must be like my Joey--very sensitive to bug bites. Joey gets freedom from rugs or fly sheets only for about a month a year, poor guy!

This is horrible bug season in northern CT, where these two boys are..

That, and mom is overprotective

https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/may-1-2021

In honor of this year's Kentucky Derby (won today by Medina Spirit), I'm posting a piece my friend Michael S. Green and I wrote together a number of years ago on Ten Famous American Horses. It has no deep meaning... it's just fun. It remains one of my favorite things I had a hand in writing, and I'm pleased to have an excuse to share it.

The horse that won the 2021 Kentucky Derby, Medina Spirit, has failed a drug test and its Hall of Fame trainer Bob Baffert has been indefinitely suspended from Churchill Downs, officials said Sunday.

This is not the first drug testing scandal for Baffert. The announcement Sunday makes Medina Spirit Baffert's fifth horse to fail a drug test in the past year alone.

They are still waiting for the results from the B sample to confirm.

daughter.tek really, really hates Bob Baffert.

Baffert cheated for sure. How do I know?

Because he was on Fox News this morning claiming that "cancel culture" is behind the failed drug test.

(Seriously, my eyes are practically rolling out of my skull and that smiley doesn't do it justice.)

Also he referred to himself in the third-person ("Bob Baffert is not stupid"), which is totally a thing that normal people do.