Long day…Tinkerbell, Mandy updates

TInk

Tink was feeling a little less enthusiastic this morning. I think it itches. She has started mouthing at the bandage and at her leg when the bandage is off. The nice granulation tissue is going proud in places. Not surprising. The skin is like a loose sleeve rising up from her fetlock…let’s pray the skin stays on that fetlock!!

Leg is bound securely in an army bandage with soothing calendula ointment inside. Tink is nestled safely inside the hay barn…20% chance of snow tonight.

Mandy

We made a trip down to the rez today, which ate up whatever of the day was not taken up by caring for Tink. Leo has sighted Mandy’s band, but the horses have not come back to the area where the water trough and hay were set up. Leo believes this is because it’s too near where their leader passed away.

We drove around the area but did not see Mandy’s band at all today. We saw a different, very beautiful herd of eight on Leo’s land near his home. All gorgeous and healthy, I will put up their pictures tomorrow. We dropped off four more bales of hay at Leo’s, and he will move the trough to a different location.

These feral Navajo horses are not the skinny, broken-down bags of bones that one would assume after a visit to the sale barn. No, it takes “OWNERSHIP” to truly &*%#@! up a horse, I guess. I will write more when I’m not so completely dilapidated from exhaustion.