Oh, and that's my mule, Sabrina.

He looks great, Marilyn; you did a great job getting him healthy. Is Val a quarter horse or part quarter? He has that stocky look about him that's common to quarter horses. I love his coloring. What a pretty boy he is.

Hard to believe that's the same horse! Val looks so good, and I hope he realizes how lucky he is to be with you. Sabrina's a beauty. Thanks for the pic!

Yes, Val is a Quarter Horse....I am sure of that. I am sure also that he has papers somewhere. Val was someone's good horse....until he got old and they hauled him to an auction and he ended up in a kill pen. I am so glad I rescued him. He has my heart. I love him so much.

Just beautiful! I'm glad that he gets to spend his old age with you.

And I get to spend my old age with him. ;))

WOW! Doesn't even look like the same horse! He's beautiful now. Poor Emory might have a little harder time and take a little longer to get pretty, but I'll bet that in time, under your care, he and Snoop will both look like horses are supposed to look, all nicely shaped and shiny coated.

Have you brought your donkeys home yet?

Rusty

Gorgeous.....I can hardly wait to see the turn around in Emory and Snoop :)

He's beautiful, Marilyn.

He's gorgeous. And lucky. I bet he knows. : )

You are a mighty special person. So admire you!

Rusty, I only had one donkey left....Amos. I lost Moses and Hobo in the flood, and I brought Amos home yesterday with the horses. (The two new fillies and Snoop and Emory were already here). I have two new donkeys...and they were already here too. I got them last week. They were rounded up after the flood and no one claimed them, so they were turned over to animal control. The auction didn't want them...no coggins tests...so they were going to be put down. Same story for Snoop. He was abandoned at the auction and animal control picked him up. A friend of mine who rescues donkeys and mules, was contacted and they gave them to us. The two I got are a pregnant jenny and her yearling son. (He is probably 18 mo old....hard to tell because they aren't halter broken...I am trying to get them used to me). At the same time, I saw Snoop and brought him home to be a companion to Emory, and it has really helped Emory, having him here. Emory hadn't seen another horse in years.

I can't remember if I posted a pic of the new donkeys....but, here they are. The ones I got are in the background to the front and back of the reddish one. I started to take the reddish colored one, because he is halter broken, but there were a couple of mares at the holding facility too....they were going to a rescue...and he got in with them and very viciously attacked one of the mares. I didn't want to deal with that. Plus, he bit the other jack and the little jack...both of them on the throat. They are getting gelded next month, and if my friend doesn't keep one, then both of the others will be available for adoption.

Here is a picture of Amos and Val. I didn't get a picture of Bane today. No two of my horses get along very well, and so he doesn't get close to the others, although, he loves Amos. Amos is non committal about Bane. :)

He's a beauty! Great job, Marilyn!

Sorry, I didn't make myself clear, I knew you had lost 2 of your donkeys, it was the two new ones I was asking about. I apparently missed where you brought them home, I thought maybe they were still at your friend's place. So now your whole 'menagerie' is on your property, right? And y'all are living in your own home again, too? I'll bet that's a big relief to you!

Rusty

Yes and yes! :)) We still have a lot of work to do in the house...and we are more or less camping out here, but we needed to get the fences fixed to bring the horses home. Especially since the mule and Amos were going to be in with the horses. The horses aren't bad to try and stray but the mule is incorrigible and she is very crafty and pays close attention to any spot she can get out and Amos is almost as bad. Plus, Val is accident prone and we are taking all the old barbed wire off the place and replacing it with a woven wire. We have finished the pasture that they are in, and now working on a pasture that will be for the donkeys, and when we finish that one, we only have to do a short strip in order to have a separate pasture for the two old guys...Snoop and Emory, and the two fillies will go in with them. Then we will work on the front pasture, which is the biggest pasture and will have that for some of them. We still have 10 acres to clear and fence, and hope to do that around the first of the year, if it isn't too wet.

Val looks wonderful, and in just a few short months. What a difference your care has made. I'm so glad you have your 'gang' back where they belong, it's clear you worked very hard to get them there. Do you have any guesses as to when the jenny might foal?

Val is gorgeous.

You've done an AMAZING job with Val, he looks beautiful!

He looks like a new penny!

Great pictures Marilyn. You have a nice herd.

Sue

I'm not sure when the jenny will foal. I can usually tell when foaling is very close, by how they bag up and the ligaments at the top of her hips will tend to get more flaccid but no particular signs yet....just a big belly.

What a change in Val. He looks beautiful. The others will too with your loving care. I'm so glad that they are "all" home with you now.

Val is just "perfect"! Sabrina looks to be liking his company....

Sabrina is very good at inserting herself into every situation. Gypsy is the boss now that TueLo has died. She allows Sabrina to eat with her or beside her simply because Sabrina does not pay any attention to Gypsy's threats. The other horses do.....all Gypsy has to do is back her ears and give them an ugly look and they back off. Sabrina ignores her. So, actually Sabrina gets along with all of the horses and Amos. What she is doing in this picture though, is eating waterlilies. That tank full of waterlilies washed into that pasture...waterlilies intact. I was supposed to move it but I have been so busy helping Jody with the fences that I have been too tired to care. I need to do it though. The waterlilies will bounce back. It is Pink Opal, a very tough waterlily.

Is Gypsy the white one?