Poor little Beowulf had an awful day yesterday. He managed to get out of his pen, and made it across the street to our neighbors’ pasture. We were out looking for him, and then I looked over and saw him cresting the hill at a full run, which made me laugh until I saw the two evil horses cresting it right behind him, also at a dead run. Bernard and I took off as fast as we could, which was not very fast—quite slow, actually, between the mud, slush and ice—but by the time we got over there they had caught him and stomped him pretty good. He was lying just on the other side of the fence, tiny and limp in a pool of blood in the snow, and we gathered him up and brought him home. We warmed him up, and gave him a couple of doses of arnica, and then put him in a box next to the woodstove to pretty much let him die in peace. Boy, were we sad—we had broken farming rule number one and had gotten totally attached to him, so we were heartbroken!
Beowulf, the day of his great adventure
It was a stressful day, monitoring and analyzing his every move, and then at around suppertime he popped up, ready to eat. He’s been fine ever since. He’s staying in the house with us right now, and loves to have a lap to sit in. He’s very cuddly and wants to be right with everybody all the time. I wonder how this is going to work out when he’s 750 pounds?
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Ummm…..could you possible retract “evil horses”? Im just sayin!!! Signed—-an anonymous neighbor.
Evil horses, NOT evil neighbor!
Oh my goodness, that must have been awful!!! I hope everything works out fine. He is such a cutie ~ best of luck.
Here’s hoping Beowolf is feeling chipper, cuddly, and well this morning.
That’s great, but I would have been more impressed had you come upon the scene and one of the horse’s heads had been chewed off and the other cowering in fear. I guess Beowulf’s young yet to live up to his eponymous hero.
He’s only a BABY hero, Caroline. Sheesh.
Such a sad story:(
How about an update?
Oh, horses can be so evil, can’t they? As you know, I have been sharing my house with a lamb (who was rehomed yesterday) and a chicken (who recovered and is now out with the flock). I’m glad to only have the cats and dogs in the house now.