A smaller field and a lot of determination
Sometimes, I think the mule has bad dreams in which I’m terribly cruel and abusive to him and, when he wakes, he can’t quite figure out fact from fiction. A
Category: the way mule thinks
Marty meets his match
So after yesterday’s debacle, for round two I brought in the big guns and Marty had a long conversation with Ben. I tried to see if he’d be caught by
The trials and tribulations of a whimsical mule
A while ago, someone posted a list of never-do’s on a mule group I follow on Facebook. It was a very funny list, but also completely true in every respect.
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A summary of the past week
The mule has been his usual contrary self lately; we haven’t been doing much, but what we have done has been good or, at the very least, interesting. I’m really
An excellent weekend!
I have had a very lovely weekend with my mulo, and as I dragged Ben along as photographer I even have some pictures to go with my usual blah blah!
Catching: a time line of events
Although I’m always dealing with varying degrees of a sore back (I have lordosis in my lower spine and mild scoliosis in my upper spine, because I am a very
The art of catching
My theories about catching the mule have evolved over time. I used to believe that, if I set out to catch him, I had to catch him – no matter how long
The mule and his therapist
On Sunday we had a visit from Stacey Bevan, a healer and animal communicator who specialises in horses. I’d come across her name on a local Facebook group, where the
Time to crack out the tiny victory flag
The mule was easy to catch today, but I rather suspect that was because I don’t usually work him on Fridays and he thought it was going to be a
First snow with the mule
Yesterday wasn’t a working day for the mule, but I caught and haltered him in the morning so that I could give them all some grass. He was perfect. He started to