After eight full months of practically living in Pookey Bear's stall, I have grown rather good at reading his moods.
Not that I am anthropomorphizing.
That would be terrible.
I would never ascribe human emotions to a horse.
No, these are definitely horse emotions I am reading.
Anyway, yesterday I got Pookey a fabulous new hay net, one with little bitty tiny openings that forces him to work really hard for his hay.
Do you think he likes doing this?
His expression kind of says it all.
He is pin-eared, long-faced, unhappy.
But it is for his own good, as it stretches out the amount of time it takes him to consume his ration, meaning that his gut continues working more continuously, he doesn't panic when he runs out of hay, his blood sugar should be more 'stable,' etc.
We'll see how it goes.
For right now, I am dealing with a very disgruntled horse!
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