Save a Horse, Ride a Cowboy...Jerry Removes Her Winter Blanket
Videotaping Fury's Adventures and Random Photos - Bruno Took The Ones of Jerry and I.
We let Bruno take control of the camera then yelled at him "Hurry Up!" He says "smile" then takes a minute to take a photo. By then we frown, try to warm up, get grouchy... Take it already!
He still did a decent job for an eight year old.
I never got around to blogging about Fury's Great Escape on Christmas Day. We were at the end of a very lovely Christmas and Jerry went out at 4 pm to feed the horse. A minute later he's back inside with a wild look on his face and says "The horse is gone." So he takes off on foot with grain and a lead rope and halter. I get on sneakers and a coat and my van keys and take off by vehicle in a dress no less. By the time we were done my bare legs were frozen. We found her down the block behind a neighbor's horse corral - this is horse country - and with endless miles of BLM open land behind her. I thought, "Oh s#!t, she could be gone forever if she chooses."
Jerry's trying to catch her when I see ANOTHER loose horse coming down the middle of our street. It turned in where Jerry and Fury were with a rider not far behind. But Jerry couldn't see the rider and thought "A wild horse! I'm toast!" Not a bad conclusion as we've had wild horses in our backyard quite a few times before fencing the whole property. The woman on the horse showed up, corralled her horse, helped Jerry halter Fury and then ponied her up the road and home for us. She said when her horse got out it came up to our place and that made Fury break out.
So Fury's been confined to her inner corral since then until Jerry could install pipe fencing on the big corral. And we're going electric as soon as Jerry gets the parts.
You can't have a horse that big roaming the neighborhood.
Today we removed her blanket because it's warming up and she's starting to shed. And we let her out into her rebuilt big corral. The pipes were free on Craig's List and the wooden post were $10 bucks at a garage sale. After over a week of being sick with the flu the sunshine and fresh air were exquisite.
On a side note, the reason Jerry wanted a Border Collie puppy was because the horse trainer up the street who helped him catch Fury and bring her home had two and they followed voice commands and helped herd horses. We'd probably be more apt to get Fury to herd Dee Dee than the other way around at this point.
