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Tuesday, April 17, 2007 Perfect Parrots and Hungry Horses

Blog note: This blog will now be mirrored at my myspace site, http://www.myspace.com/mary_winter, and soon to be mirrored at a LiveJournal. Another note, I'm going to try daily themes if I can... As always, let me know what you think...

My pionus, Braynon, said a new phrase today. "I love you." Okay now, all together, "Awwww..." His vocabulary includes such phrases as "Baby Braynon" "Baby Braynon is a good boy." "Good birdie baby braynon" And various mixes and matches of those. But today, as I was feeding him (ha, maybe that was the trigger) he looked at me with his big eyes and said plain as day "I love you." It's a phrase he hears often. And I think it's adorable that he said it. Of course, this is the same parrot that laughs along with the Daily Show and cackles to himself occasionally with an eerie enough sounding laugh that it makes you wonder what he's doing over there in his little corner of the living room.

Today was spring shot day at the barn. Fortune received her spring shots, and although she wasn't happy about it, they're good for her. She didn't put up too much of a fuss, which is good, because I hate it when my 1000 lb kid misbehaves. We're doing well on our respect and ground control, and I will try not to rattle on too much about my equine kid.

As I posted yesterday about vitamins, feeding horses, or any pet, isn't an exact science. Dogs and cats probably have it the best because they've been domesticated for thousands of years. So their "dried cereal" they get every day tends to meet their nutrition requirements. Same for most livestock. However, I've found it interesting as the attention on overweight humans has grown, so too, has the attention on overweight pets. Horses in particular. (I read a lot of horse magazines). Like mother like daughter I guess when it comes to my horse. I need weight watchers. So, too, does my horse.

So, she gets a feed called Litebalance from Nutrena. This diet is specifically formulated for "easy keeper" horses (you know the kind who just get fat by breathing). Since Fortune is in the pasture and gets ample hay and forage, she doesn't really need grain. I give her just a bit, maybe a few cups full along with her Vita Plus (horse vitamin). And of course, there are those treats while I'm training. She never thinks it's enough, and she's forever nosing around in pockets trying to find the treats. Yeah, that's part of the respect thing we're working on.

I love to hear about people's pets. Why don't you stop on over to my chat loop or message boards and tell me all about your pets?

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