u/AngeDuVide

Merlin has been at the new barn for 1 week now. He made it an interesting week! The first day he was terrified of the mini donkeys but then apparently beat one of them up when the barn owner let him in their pasture 🙄.

Then 2 days after he moved in the barn owner messaged me asking if he ever got nosebleeds because there was *tons* of blood in his paddock and on his chest/back but they couldn't find a single cut on him or the horse he was out with. Eventually they found a tiny cut in Merlin's nose that had no business bleeding as much as it did. He acted completely fine the whole time and I can't even tell where the cut was anymore.

Today I got him out and lunged him and he did great! I'm looking forward to getting him back in shape now that he's at a barn I like so I can hopefully ride him again.

I moved my horse to the barn I've been taking lessons at and Merlin was about as perfect as he could be. Walked right in the trailer and didn't pick a fight with any of his new pasture mates right away either. Things got a little spooky for him when he had to walk past the *ahem* "absolutely terrifying" mini donkeys to get to his new pasture but other than that all was good. I hope he settles in well and I'm really looking forward to being able to see him more often!

My boy (Merlin) is moving to a new barn in a couple weeks and I'm so happy.

For the last several years he has been at a barn where he was certainly cared for and did well, but I didn't really like going to due to personal differences with the owners. My area doesn't have many boarding barns close to me so despite looking on and off over the years nothing ever worked out.

A couple months ago I started taking lessons at a new barn with a new trainer and I have been loving it so I asked her if I could move Merlin there. She said yes!

I'm so happy I'll be able to see my boy more often. Maybe even get him back in shape enough for casual rides (he's 19 and been a pasture potato the last few years)

There's more I could say about the old barn and why I'm happy to leave but for now I'm just focused on why the new barn makes me happy!

(Picture is older, but always been one of my favorite pictures of him)

I wish every pet was this easy to medicate! She's on pain meds for a face fracture and thankfully loves the taste and is always ready for her treat.

I found out yesterday that my chinchilla has a skull fracture near one of her eyes (x-ray here for the curious).

She's acting completely fine, eating well and everything. She'll go back in a few weeks to get new x-rays and see how it's healing. In the meantime she's on pain meds and doctor orders to be confined to only half of her double critter nation.

Once she can have her full cage again I want to revamp her shelves and really limit any possibility of having a fall long enough to cause issues again. I thought her layout before was pretty good for that but clearly she found a way to hurt herself anyway (our best guess for how she did it is she fell from her top shelf to the middle and hit her face on her hut).

I was looking at some of the sets by Pandamonium Pets but does anyone have other favorites or tips they want to share? I want to let my chin still be able to climb and jump around like she loves to do but I want to make sure she's safe too.

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Now to just stay on the same save long enough to make this happen... My husband likes to say I enjoy starting games more than finishing them so we'll see