Monday, July 25, 2011

Ladybug gets to check out the front yard

Anne Chapman (Bug's vet) and her resident came out this afternoon just after lunch to deal with Ladybug's ear so I took half a day off work - again.  Bug managed to pull her ear bandage off last night, but her ear really didn't appear to be bad today, so they just flushed out the incisions with saline/betadine, then we put a clean fly mask on her with the ear soaked in "Swat" and she was a happy girl.  She doesn't seem to mind the mask at all.  Guess she just didn't like the weight of that bandage on just one side. 

Anyway, once they left I locked the front gate and turned Bug out into the front yard for the first time.  For a few minutes, she walked around and checked things out, but she never bothered anything like the cars or crape myrtles or azaleas.  For her the grass seemed to be ALL that mattered.  She LOVED it.


So it wasn't long at all before she calmed down and happily began to graze.


I kept an eye on her for a few more minutes, but when it seemed perfectly clear that she wasn't going to try and come up on the porch after hay or do anything stupid, I went back inside and watched her from there off and on for another couple hours. 

Later when I went out to take some more pictures her head came up and she looked like she thought she was going to be in big trouble for being out of her paddock! 

I don't think I'll let Duke and Lizzie go out in front anytime soon, but Bug? . . . no problem.  She is SO tidy.  She grazed out there for all that time and never left a single pile anywhere.  (Mark will be happy to hear that, I'm sure!)  AND she spent a fair amount of that time eating grass along the fence line.  Very helpful!

If I didn't know better, I'd swear she was out there by the road to show off to the people driving by.  She was out in front from about 4 until almost 7, so a lot of people drove by on their way home from work.  At one point while I was sitting out on the porch reading, I heard a clicking sound.  Very odd.  Turned out a lady had stopped her car, rolled down her window and was apparently trying to get Bug to come over to the fence!  Well, there probably are plenty of people driving by who love horses.  None of the other houses have horses around here at this point, but there IS a large equestrian center down the road by the river (RightLead Equestrian Center).  All the riders who board or take lessons there have to drive past our place, so maybe that woman was one of them.   Whoever she was, Bug ignored her though.  Unlike Duke, grass always wins out over people with Bug - especially strangers.   So she's definitely the right one to turn out in front. 

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