My beautiful horse Smokey has his own take on the hunger games. He has taught me a lot about survival and coming from a place of lack. Today he's sharing some of this with you too. But first let me go back a bit so you can get the full picture. Smokey came into my life when he was just six years old off the show track in Tennessee. He was skinny and scarred from the often cruel Tennessee Walking Horse show circuit. With me his life was different. One of the first things I told him (and … [Read more...]
Tick Talk…I’ve really gone buggy.
They're back. (Okay read that like Jack Nicholson in The Shining..in that really creepy way he says “I'm back”). That's how I feel about ticks and now they're back. Two have shown up on the dogs so far...although they were discovered before they could attach themselves. I hate ticks. It's nothing personal but they carry borrelia burgdorferi, anaplasmosis, bartonella, babesia and a variety of other bacteria that have made both me and my animals very ill in the last several years. I know of at … [Read more...]
Miami shares his wisdom about the end of a physical life.
Today in my meditation, our herd leader Miami came to me to talk about the end of life for animals. He knew this was weighing on my mind as I have been dealing with many client animals recently preparing to leave their body. Miami, who is 28 years old, has been in a great deal of pain with a hoof abscess. When our animals age and begin to have physical problems it's hard for us not to start thinking about when we will be without them. In his amazing wisdom, Miami shares about this … [Read more...]