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09/28/2002: "He’s BAAAAAAAAAAAK!"
Finally - Indy is HOME!!!!! We pulled into our pasture in mid-afternoon on Saturday, the 21st. To say Ami was glad to see him would be something of an understatement :o) We had left her in the large paddock so we could drive the trailer into the pasture to unload. Since I’ve had so little experience with Indy and the trailer, I wanted to be sure he was safely inside the gates - just in case. I needn’t have worried. He stepped off the trailer like a pro and was just as easy to handle here as he’d been at Purdue. If this boy RIDES like he LEADS - WooHoo!
He and Ami whooped it up a LOT. It always makes me nervous when they crash around like this, but I guess they know what they’re doing - no injuries so far! Ami was obviously disappointed that we didn’t fix the castration “complication” SHE was interested in… Oh well.
Indy did give us a bit of a scare on Sunday when he refused to eat his antibiotic in the alfalfa cube/applesauce mash we’d always used before. We ended up having to use a dosing syringe - NOT something you want to have to do twice a day for a month! Fortunately, this only lasted for that one day. Now he’s scarfing down that mix just like always.
I’ve been taking this temperature every day since he came home, and so far so good. I’m sure if he were going to spike a fever, he would have done so before now. He’s also urinating MUCH less frequently and not straining at all. He’s also running around like his old self. Good thing there were no restrictions on his exercise!!
Matt was out on Wednesday to trim Ami and check up on his buddy who trimmed Indy at Purdue :o) He said Ami’s feet are looking better than they have in a long time. THAT’S good news. He also pronounced Indy’s feet to be in excellent shape. In fact, he made several comments about how wonderful Indy’s feet are. I said, “Well, Morgans are SUPPOSED to be known for wonderful feet. Too bad so many of them don’t have them any more.” And Matt said, “This one does.”
When we turned Indy back out into the pasture he walked a few steps, then started galloping around the fence line, tail flagging and mane flying. Matt watched for a few moments, and then said, “You guys GOTTA get a video!” Yeah, he is quite a sight.
