Our terrace lizards are vegetarians, which is cool, really, except for one thing:
They eat our plants!!!
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Our terrace lizards are vegetarians, which is cool, really, except for one thing:
They eat our plants!!!
An expert in the US told us that Sahara might very well be having silent heats, and that it might be wise to let her interact more with stallions.
First up (behind a wall of protection) was Rio, the Snowman’s colt. At first, he was a bit overexcited, but then he calmed down and the two […]
I am a lucky person. It was always my dream to ride in the bush with Arwen’s future foal running freely by her side. Unfortunately, Arwen hasn’t given birth to anything yet, but when Maya happened to come our way, I just couldn’t resist the temptation of letting her loose, believing that the need to […]
Sahara looking beautiful as ever - but who would have thought she’d grow so much during the time that she’s been with us?
Maya starting to become less and less like an indifferent bush horse and more and more like the other mares in the flock
Arwen with the right posture. I wanted a picture of that […]
In Niger, horses start being ridden at far too young a age, sometimes not more than a year or so. With Maya, we let her run along for the first few weeks, but when she started getting too daring on her own (peeking into people’s gardens on our way out of town and hunting the […]
We took the sisters out to my brother’s big garden, to let them figure out their differences like horses like to do. As a safety precaution however, we tied one side of Sahara’s legs together so that she would be able to do any serious damage to Maya, who was a few sizes too small […]
Today, our horses got a visitor, a two year old filly from the bush who happened to be none other than Sahara’s younger sister. She was destined to our neighbor, but although with her two years she would seem ridable to most people in Niger, she is too frail for any of us. So she’s […]
In late December, I wrote the following draft:
For a dog who previously had huge aggression issues, Dennis is turning out to be quite a teddy bear!
He still has days when he is immensely uncooperative and prefers being the hunter rather than the herder, but then he has other days when he’s just being himself and […]
Our horses have separation anxiety. They have only known each other for a year, but from the first week, Sahara has gone nuts whenever Arwen is away.
The big change this year is that Arwen now reacts with equal frustration. The disadvantages are (obviously) many, but there are surprisingly many perks as well. For instance, when […]
Don’t you just love it when animals of all kinds settle in and start making nests, only to find a few weeks later that there is a little junior growing at an amazing speed?
It really didn’t take long for this little guy from the time he broke out of his egg to fly out of […]
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