It has been a busy few weeks, as always.
The saddest thing, apart from losing Poppy the puppy to parvo, was the loss of our beautiful shire, Ed. We had been trying for months, but the grass is so rich up here that we are having to manage the horses very carefully.
Laminitis is horrible, and whilst the little ones can recover, the Shires are just too heavy. We had to make the very sad decision to let him go, but it was the right thing to do. Only 8 years old. He was so lovely and beautiful.
After the Turners had helped demolish the old shed, their work didn’t stop there and on the way home to Leeds, they met up with a good friend, Joanne who wrote Pim’s Books, and gave her Ebony. A beautiful young lurcher that we acquired up here….A cracking little dog, lets hope she behaves better than Pim…
Then we had Marble brought in from her trainer in Sunderland. A beautiful brindle greyhound girl. Very timid, but she is coming too already. Just gone 3 years old. She had 32 races, she wasn’t very good.
Then we have George, a big brindle boy….he had 150 races at Doncaster, the last one in August last year. He had been sat in kennels ever since. He was sprung by someone who felt sorry for him, as he was underweight and miserable.
He is now in a foster home…Just given away by his trainer, underweight, needs a dental and castrating….whose paying for that then? Oh yeah…..Us.
So there you go….normal sort of stuff…
Deb