We had to leave our beloved ranch, though neither of us wanted to. We just couldn't afford it any more, and Bo and DeDe are going to move north at some point anyway.
I did my best to project calm, but he knew something was up anyway. He was high energy and snorty from the start. He followed along just fine, and enjoyed his pan of feed, but once I put him in the cross ties, he knew something rotten was up!
First, he got WORMED! OH NO!
Then... then he got a BATH. HORROR! He pawed the ground like there was no tomorrow, he reared and squirmed when I washed his face, he pleaded and begged, but he got CLEAN.
I spent an especially long time cleansing his butt and his tail.
After he dried up, Bo hitched up the trailer. Solomon wanted to run around, but there wasn't much time for it. I let him loose in the round pen, but he stood and watched with great suspicion.
He loaded up wonderfully- pretty much trotted straight in to the trailer. As soon as the bar connected up and we closed the back door, however, he pitched a fit. He screamed and screamed, knowing he was being TAKEN SOMEWHERE.
I felt so very guilty at this point.
I think the new place is going to be a good place for him, but he was so happy at the ranch...
At first, at the ranch, he was all high heads and snorts and spinning around. Bo told the new ranch folks to keep an eye on me, because I had training but sometimes forgot and did something stupid. "If you see her standing on a trash can trying to get up on his back, yell at her, she knows better!"
I love you too, Bo.
After a bribe of grain and a couple of flakes of hay, Solomon settled down, especially when they brought out Charlie Horse. You'll meet him in a moment.
This place is rougly 90 acres or so total. It has a pond and troughs, shelters, grass, and twice daily feedings. It is not a fancy place, but it has nice gentle hills and is, I think, a good place for an old horse like Solomon.
They were eating for a while, but decided to come say hi and investigate as I unloaded some horse supplies from my car.
Nice facial expression, Solly! I have NO idea what he's doing in this photo, actually. Weird pose!
Suspicious horse is suspicious.
But there's hay!
The other two horses, the younger TWHs, were kept in another section of pasture. They decided to introduce gradually, starting out by putting Solomon in with Charley Horse. So far, they seem to be getting along really well. Both grand old gentlemen, though Solomon is quite a bit taller, haha!
This is Charley Horse. He is also a rescue.
He is currently a bit suspicious of me, because I stuck my hands in his mouth. Not in a ddranch stunt kind of way, but to check out his teeth for the mom of the couple I'm boarding with. He'll get used to me, though!
However, I should have been suspicious.
I chased him out of the back seat, but then was sorting through some things in there, only to hear a "GRACHHHHHHH!"
Charley Horse had stuck his head in my half rolled down window and grabbed the empty feed pan with his teeth. He yanked his head back, and shattered my car window!
My poor car!
Thankfully the new folks were kind enough to take care of that. Shihan runs an auto body place, and he hooked me up with some nice glass guys.
Charley didn't mean it though. He's a horse and sometimes random stuff like this happens. They just don't understand car windows!
Anyway, things seem to be going fine there. I will get up to visit again as soon as I can. He's living about 8 miles down the road from Bo, so I can go up there, visit him, and visit Bo as well! <3
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