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I am just so impressed by your strength and your dedication. The fact that you manage to get your teeth brushed each day with all you have gone through/are handling is absolutely mind boggling, let alone get to work, ride, and SHOW a horse. I am so happy for your bright spots. You deserve them!

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Yay, these are all so awesome! Me weighing in...as I type this, DH. And i are sitting in gliders on a balcony overlooking the NC mountains as a part of a long weekend get away, massages scheduled for 2.5 hours from now. I haven't has a massage in about 6 years, despite chronic back issues and the fa...

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I've never had an experience like this with my horses, but agree, they know way more about our surroundings and circumstances than we do. Recently my more sensitive horse and my donk were out of sorts for a few days...I believe it was due to a bunch of clearing across the street...a couple acres of ...

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Yikes. Just yikes! So sorry...

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So sorry you are going thru this again! When I see posts on Facebook about how cute these possums are I usually lash back with yeah and they can infect our beloved horses with a costly and life threatening disease. I donate to a local rescue and sorry to say but I ask that my money not be spent on ...

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greenhorse wrote:Hi! Yes, that was probably me. I replied to your message. I hope you will have as good of luck as we did.

Thanks! But nothing in my inbox....?

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Thanks Rockabilly, maybe GH will stop by the thread? I remember a lot of us have walked the EPM path at different times, some before a lot of the drugs were discovered, some with sad ends even with the currents drugs. When I say I hate possum poop, I couldn't mean it more! I am thankful to have gone...

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She is MUCH better. The second day was terrible. She was crying and wailing in pain. Made for interesting conference calls that day. After about 2pm that day, though, she was fine. She stopped crying and seemed nearly normal. It's now been a week and she is doing great. Now I just have to keep her ...

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Hey all- I did a quick search, but no luck in jogging my memory. Yes Fergus, who will be 22 in two weeks, is being treated for EPM for the FIFTH time in our 19.5 years together. This time was the scariest time as it was the biggest presentation of a choke (he is the horse you would NEVER think would...

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How's she doing now Chancellor? Yes, down here HW is rampant, and the vets are so familiar with treatment..I've never had to go through it with any of my fosters..one was too sick to handle it due to other reasons and she was put down for something unrelated before we got to that point...but in prep...

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Oh DJR, I wish I had helpful words...I hope it helps to know that you are among a group of folks who totally get the emotions you are feeling, if not being folks who know the exact situation. I feel like horses bring us the most amazing positives, and the most gut wrenching negatives, when it comes ...

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DG, if you find your way to this thread, please know how sorry I am for your loss, and how happy I am for all of the love in your family over all of these years. Much peace to all.

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And since I take pix daily due to how he cracks me up or just looks so cute, here's more...

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Hey all, Home sick with a cruddy cold for day#2, and I don't do "rest" well, so figured I could be productive and touch base with the DD'ers while still technically "taking it easy". A good excuse to fulfill the Junior requests. :D FYI, if anyone really is thinking of adding a do...

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Normally very VERY quiet, yesterday Junior talked ALL DAY. DH was battling the standing water and mud by hand digging a 60' trench and running piping outside a pasture/between barns and he texted me to fill me in. We both checked it out, looking for a loose animal or problem in the area that was hol...

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Lovely update! I appreciate the donkey descriptions, too. My mare used to live with one and loved him....so I do imagine getting her a donkey friend down the road. I think I need a 35 year old! How old is Junior? So.....Junior is 5.5 years old. :lol: :lol: :lol: The only non-perfect thing about him...

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I want one... Get one!! :D :D :D There are so many donkeys making so many more donkeys in back fields, and getting dumped at auction or sold straight to meat men, it's horrible. Different kind of the same awful as horses. I'm always shocked at how no one seems to geld their jacks, and how many are ...

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Junior is a riot. I actually went to a big event that the Rescue did...a 5k run with your donkey followed by bands and food and meet/greet and vendors at a brewery, and got to meet a lot of volunteers, adopters and donkeys. This was after visiting the Rescue the day before. It helped a lot, as donke...

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Love it! And the short sleeves in the snow made me laugh!

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Another big barn progress piece was the front wall of Dallas' stall. Progression in background of pix. So much to do. Reframing, putting in headers for Windows and a second door. Residing. Painting. Eventually inner stall walls. The front wall is reframed, window and shutter in, sided and painted. D...

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And the cat family...

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Junior deciding he loves his man cave...

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The donkey wing...backwards progression

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Junior...

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Hey All. Thanks again for wondering about us, and for the kind words about our stories. 2018 has been a bit rough, at least from the mid point on, which made extra time a complete non-entity. But all were First World Problems, and most are under control now...very thankful for all the people, suppor...

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Thank you for loving your animals so much. Big hugs.

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How horrible. Glad things are improving and that you are getting help financially! Reminded me of this FB post I saw awhile back. So scary that these reactions can happen after decades of no problems at all. Just FYI in case it gives you any related info. https://www.facebook.com/hassingerfarm/posts...

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I'm here, I'm here! It was so nice to wander back to the DDBB and see this post....thanks for wondering about me! I will update shortly....news things afoot at The Fixer Upper Farm and in The Little Red Barn... but life got crazy, I had zero extra time, and then when I tried to check in I couldn't r...

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I get so sad when I hear if budget cuts to programs like this, or the ones where jails have dogs from shelters come in for training for a few months to live with the inmates/get trained and adopted out. There are so so so many upsides to these programs...and no down sides if you really look at the n...

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What does your bodywork person say about this? I have work done on both the boys. Fergus isn't a mover typically, but some spots/issues/releases happen occasionally that do make him antsy and our person knows when this is the case versus when I hear her say "I know it's hard, but you need this,...

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Thanks all. I do smile every time I look at it. :-) The plan is to plant a nice big garden around its base...one of those planned out gardens that looks sort of free and unplanned. Have an awesome family-owned nursery on a farm nearby with awesome prices and really helpful folks, so will be getting ...

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Lovely! How great to have an office like that! Though I bet I'd get nothing done as I'd be staring out at the farm and critters and surroundings all day!

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Congrats! That sign is lovely, and the name is great. We have moles too. For the longest time they stay out of the horse pastures but they have started to venture in. I read that you should tamp down on the tunnels whenever you stumble upon them. I called our pest contro, company and a) they aren't ...

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Some would say it was official when we had the closing 2 years ago...but we horse people know it gets real when you name the place, and turns official when the sign goes up. :D :D :D I knew the name the first time I saw the place from the road, before DH even knew it existed, before we had even real...

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We get them up in the rafters too...but once we had a piece of OSB nailed to a wall as a stop-gap measure in this never ending Reno process...I glance behind one day and there was a nest the diameter of a grapefruit. And it was the "wall" right beside the stall door where my horse always s...

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Good job Bliss! Has he had experiences with gowns before? Looks like he acted like an old pro!

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Thanks all. I guess now that I think of it, I am not too worried about furry creatures, as all of the wiring in in metal conduit...but what about wasps? I sure hate wasps and the thought of a ton of them in the walls.....ick! Though I guess if they wanted to, they could crawl through those same 1/4'...

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Sorry about Gunny but glad that your vet was able to be there for him and you. I'm sure it made his passage so much the easier. maybe he will have new adventures over the Rainbow Bridge! Thanks Sue. It was absolutely the way it was "supposed" to be in Gunny's opinion. Some beautiful momen...

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Hey all. Working on inner walls in The Little Red Barn as we prep for tomorrow's high winds and we use up as much of our "lumber yard supplies" from the almost-washpit as possible to avoid having to stow more things away. Retrofitting an old cow barn is interesting, LOL. Opinions and feedb...

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Thanks everyone. Time heals, but I know from experience the tears hang around for as long as they hang around, and pop up out of the blue sometimes. Its been hard running into the kids who loved him through his book...and the reliable question of "how's Gunny today?". For now I rely on avo...

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Godspeed Ben. You were one of the special ones. Peace to your family, especially your girl. How my heart breaks thinking about how she must be feeling these days...

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Last ones...

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a few more...

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Some of you may remember him from the UDBB days. You helped him win many contests, bringing prizes of dog food and gift cards to the rescue group for which I volunteer...the same group that backed my wild scheme to rescue a mangled, emaciated, probable "bait dog" off of death row in a neig...

fergusnc

Best wishes for a boring storm for you, your mom, and her kitties.

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We use State Farm as they do not discriminate against owners of well-behaved dogs that the insurance world considers "dangerous breeds". When we bought The Fixer Upper Farm I was worried about what might happen. First year there were no horses here so I didn't even ask. Once I bought the h...

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Thanks all. Life is good.

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Great update!

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