Games Babies Play

Is she the cutest thing you have seen all day or what? Such a cute little face, full of flash
It goes good with the rest of her--she is flashy all over.
Her fun game tonight was to play with the baling twine. She found a piece to chew on, which is not okay. I sent Madison to take it away from her. What ensued was a comedy.

She showed her mama first.


Then she showed China---who wanted no part of it either. I guess she could tell this would come to someone getting in trouble.

So the little speckled butt filly was off on her on game of tag.

She took her baling twine friend all over the pasture.

She even brought it to show me.



That is when she started teasing us. She stopped right in front of me and waited for Madison to catch up. Then she was off again.

Eventually she dropped it, but she let me get all these cute pics first.

What a fun baby she is.

Our other event of the evening is that Simba is acting very strangely. Last nite, she was filthy from the rain--I do not know why, as Slater was not. As soon as she got in the door, we could see how dirty she was, so we sent her back out. She snuck back in, and that time, Barry grabbed her collar and marched her out. Later we saw that she had peed in the floor as he grabbed her.

Tonight, she did not come in with Slater again. When we finally found her, she was filthy--it is raining again, but this was strange filthy like she had been rolling in mud. She was also super flinchy. Every time Barry would go to touch her, she would jump, like she was either scared or startled. She is just acting straight up weird. She is drying off in the garage right now, so she can come in to be observed. I wonder if she has had a stroke, or something. She is at least nine years old which is old old old for a Dane, but has never been sickly. She has some fatty tumors on her, but no other outward sign of illness. She is just really acting strangely.

One other issue of concern is that Spike has seriously swollen glands. Rock hard glands in his throat--you can see them from a distance. He is awful young to withstand any illness, so I am worried. Fortunately, his mama goes in to see the vet to be inseminated again in the morning, so he can just go along with her and get checked out. He ate grain tonight, but I never saw him nurse while I was there--that is not a good sign. He was not his normal goofy self either--a little more sedate than usual. Not listless by any means, but he is usually such a player, so rambunctious and fun to be around, and tonight, he just poked along behind his mama to come into the stall. I know he was not that way yesterday as Barry spent forever chasing them to take Aries in for her ultrasound.

Cross your fingers that none of these things are significant, and that I am just being a paranoid nut job. I am good at that.