A Beautiful and Peaceful Day...

Sally and I just returned from Colorado where we spent some time with our friend, Susan, who is not well. Those of you who follow the blog might remember last February when Susan was in town visiting and she talked about the horses of Mongolia. Susan is battling cancer and is now at home with her family. We were able to spend time with her just talking, laughing about the Pony Club days, and sitting quietly together. She is very peaceful and strong. We are sending her and her family our love and support. We love you Susan and we are thinking about you...

It was a very quiet and peaceful day at Shiloh today as well. The sun was shining but there is a chill in the air.
Ciento wanders to get a drink of water in the Okay Corral pasture...

Serenity, who was wandering, rolled in the sand...

And then needed a boost to get up all the way.

We moved Stardust into the barn this morning. It looks like she possibly suffered a small stroke sometime last night. She is not in pain, but is walking unbalanced and has a head tilt. She is warm and cozy in the heavily bedded stall and is eating and drinking normally. She is about 30 years old and we will keep her comfortable...

Ketchum was moved out of his medical stall and into a pasture. We have been using a chemo cream on his cancer and now we need to leave it alone for two weeks. He will spend the next two weeks in a pasture with friends where we can still watch him but where he can enjoy a good horse life.

Stetson is looking good, that is Ice lying down in the sun in the background.

City Slicker out in the Big Pasture.

Tulsa and her pal, Obsidian, in the Okay Corral.

Sanctuary horse, Austin eats his Equine Senior.

Daisy wonders if she should go out wandering or if she should stay in her comfortable stall...

Little Vacation Village member, Sy, looking fuzzy and cute!

Image in Little Vacation Village. That is Susie Q to the left and Jackson to the right.

Laramie, looking fuzzy and fat. He blinked when I took this photo but he still looks cute!

Frisco was moved into the new extra feeding pasture.

Pit Bull Update

Thankfully, we were told that some Pit Bulls were picked up by Animal Control in Sandy Valley. All of us can now breathe a sigh of relief...

Thank you to Kathy Bowles for the info!

A Busy Saturday

As always, there was lots to do and lots of people out to help...

Happily, Bonanza left with his new family this afternoon. He joins Shiloh Horse, Sidewinder, in his new home.

Some of the Big Pasture horses. Strangely, they are all chestnuts with white hind socks! Isn't that weird!

Gummie Pen member, Charity, took a sun nap in a strange place. She and Ferdie, the goat, were guarding the feed trough...

New Arrival, Veteran, in the Isolation turnout...

Back in the Big Pasture, Broadway took a nice nap...

Avalon took a nice stroll in the Okay Corral pasture.

While Elaine and Stretch tried to coax Vanilla to come closer...

Blessing and friends in the Okay Corral...

Mendoza has gained a lot of weight...

Sabine worked Kerkorian, who did great. He is such a nice guy...

Daisy in her barn stall. Look how much hay she has...

Sally and Lindsey Loham square off over her ear medication. Her wound is looking very good.

Arson in his Medical Stall.

Back to Veteran in the turn out. I think he has actually gained some weight already.

That is New York, Manhattan and Resolute in the turn out...

Intrepid was quietly hand walked due to his healing suspensory ligament injury.

Mendoza, in his stall, waiting for his early morning Equine Senior.

A Beautiful Day

The weather was wonderful today- lots of sunshine and in the mid 60's. It still gets very cold at night (the water buckets freeze over) so our older guys and other compromised horses continue to be blanketed at night.

It was a busy day today.

Lindsey Loham looked much better, she is eating and drinking and will be moved to a new private residence in the Pig Palace where she will be protected and can recuperate.

Eric is now riding his Mustang, Gus. They are such a great team and Eric has done an outstanding job with Gus.

The New TBs in Isolation were turned out for a few hours today so that they could enjoy the nice weather. They were put into the Isolation turn out.

Mendoza wandered a bit and then waited for his feed. He has put on a lot of weight and is looking really good. He was given another steroid injection yesterday to keep his appetite up.

Daria hopped on Tinman. Tinman was just returned from his adoptive home. He was still in his trial period and he didn't fit in with Kerkorian who was also adopted. Both horses fought with each other and the family finally had to switch out both Kerkorian and Tinman for Harmony who seems like a great match. That is why we offer a 30 day full money back on all our horses- we want the match to work out for everyone, people and horses. Sometimes you just don't know until you get the horse home how they are going to mesh with your family, etc. So we have begun working Tinman again- he is such a nice gelding and should make someone a wonderful horse.

He is a very nice looking 8 year old gray Thoroughbred gelding. Sound and healthy.

Inspirada is feeling fine and was out back out into her pasture. She is still looking for her new home.

Granite appears to be recovering nicely from his castration. He was hosed down, worked in the round pen and wandered in the turn out. Granite is so sweet and once he is ready, he should make a very nice family or husband horse.

Bonanza will be heading out to his new home on Saturday. He spent some time in the turn out this morning...

Vet Day at Shiloh...

We were up very early, we had a long vet day ahead. It was very cold, so Chia Pet dressed, and growled, accordingly.

Once we got to Shiloh, we found that the electricity was off- So Cal Edison was doing some all day work on power in the valley. That meant our four teeth floats would have to wait for another day as Dr. Schur use electric tools. But, there was still plenty to do.

On Tuesday morning, Lindsey Loham was found with a torn and bleeding ear. We could not figure out what had happened to her in the night- first we thought maybe the ranch dogs, but the damage was too severe, then we thought maybe coyotes. But, then we heard that another small dog on the next ranch over had been attacked by three loose pit bulls and had his ear torn off this past weekend. Three loose dogs had been seen from a distance earlier on the weekend out by one of Shiloh's round pens, but then they ran off. So, now we have deduced that Lindsey was attacked by these same pit bulls, who it seems tried to pull her out of her igloo house where she sleeps at night by her ear. Her ear was hanging off in shreds and she has cuts and scrapes all over her head, snout and shoulders. The poor thing!

In order to work on her, the vet put her to sleep with gas...

Sharil, shaken by Lindsey's injury, tried some as well...

Dr. Schur had to cut the remaining ear and tissue off, now she is completely missing an ear! We don't know how well she will hear, we will have to see as it heals. Poor Lindsey! But, we are thankful that the dogs did not manage to get her out of her pig house otherwise she would have, most likely, been killed. We now have to close Daisy up at night as she can easily be killed by these horrible dogs. We don't know where the dogs came from, who they belong to or where they are now, so we are being very careful. Pit bulls have been known to attack and kill full grown horses as well as people. If we see those dogs again anywhere near Shiloh, it is not going to be pretty.

Feeling better, Lindsey snuggled under her warm blanket and slept the rest of the day away...
Granite was gelded. Here he is being sedated... It took the maximum amount of drugs to get him to go down!

But, finally, he went down and the procedure could begin. All went well, with no complications.

Boone's hind end lameness was evaluated by Dr. Schur. She confirmed that it is probably arthritis in his hock. He may still be pleasure sound and be able to find a home of his own at some point. He is a sweet guy and we are going to begin working him a bit to see how he does.

Inspirada was acting a bit quiet, so we decided to have her checked over. All seemed fine, but she was given some water and oil just to be sure.

Arson's foot was re-checked. It looks like it is doing okay, he is still sore on it, as you can imagine.

Arson is such a good guy, he stands so perfectly still no matter what you have to do to him.

We had Pecos' eye re-checked, it looks like it is healing well.

We also had Ketchum's cancer checked and some growths cut away. Daisy's teeth we also checked, with her deformed mouth she has major dental problems. She will be going into the clinic in the next two weeks to have some work done again. New Arrival Intrepid's injured leg was checked over. She confirmed it is a suspensory ligament pull.

A busy and long day!