The Horse Eating Pitch Fork

Not much going on here.  Too much rain to do anything of any significance.  I did have one issue show its nasty head one day, that required some attention:  Zoe met a pitch fork.  OMG!  A horse-eating monster!  Or so she thought!  My little guy was in the barn with me and the hubby playing with the hay.  He picked up the pitch fork to move it and it was at that exact moment I was walking with Zoe out to the pasture.  She lost it!  She flew sideways and backwards with her eyes about popping out of her head.  She wanted nothing to do with that awful pitch fork.  Zoe is usually pretty good about coming back to me when she gets frightened and will investigate the object once she's calmed down.  This was not one of those times.  Every time I tried to get her close to the immobile pitch fork (little guy put it down on the ground) she about plowed me over trying to get away from it.  She DID NOT want to investigate it.  Hubby came over to see what was going on and helped me with the next step.  If she wasn't going near it, we were bringing it to her.  She's going to have to get used to seeing it without losing her mind. I held her and talked to her while hubby slowly brought it to her.  She tried to get away but I didn't budge.  Eventually she let it touch her legs, then up to her shoulder.  She was still very upset about it but tolerated it so we ended it there.  When I bring her hay to her on the fork, she doesn't mind it one bit but seeing it all by itself was apparently terrifying!  We will have to work on more desensitizing...might be more work there than I thought!!!

Until next time!



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"The limits of the possible can only be defined by going beyond them into the impossible."

-Arthur C. Clarke