I had the most interesting day today! For one thing, there's a new horse in Kia's stall. I've seen him before in another stall and he's SO handsome. He's a grey Thoroughbred and he's tall and has gorgeous eyes and he nickers at me! I think I love him. I like to poke my nose up against the bars and if he's not paying enough attention to me, I lay my ears back at him and swish my tail. That gets his attention! I like Kia but I kind of hope she never comes back. That's him in the picture sniffing noses with Sparky. Isn't he a hunk?
So this morning, Mom came really early. That was odd. She came to my stall and instead of cleaning it, she took me out and brought me to the Round Pen. I was really frisky this morning. We didn't really do much yesterday and it was kind of nice and breezy today so as soon as she let me loose, I took off running! I ran and ran and ran around that Round Pen. It felt really good. I ran until I finally had to slow down to a trot, then a walk. Then I walked over to Mom to say hi and nuzzle her. She gave me a hug and petted me, then she asked me to go the other direction so I did. I ended up running that way too. I just felt like running.
Mom took me back to my stall then and went to get Spark. She tied him up outside it near Hunky-boy's stall and left me inside. It was kind of weird. Usually she takes me out and gives me a hay snack and cleans my stall. Today she just hung around. After a little bit, Sparky's mom showed up and she just hung around. Then a truck drove up and a man got out.
That was the carrot doctor. Mom called him a chiropractor but I call him a carrot doctor because he brought lots of carrots and fed them to us. It was so nice. First he looked at Spark. He said hello to him and gave him a carrot, then he felt him all over. He talked and talked to Mom and Sparky's mom and from what I could understand, he was talking about all the places Spark might be hurting. Then he touched him on his butt and Spark flinched so he explained that Sparks sacro-something-or-other joint hurt him and he needed to adjust it. He lifted Spark's back leg just a little bit and then kind of punched his butt and I could tell by Spark's expression that it felt pretty good. The carrot doctor did it two more times and Spark was all perked up. Then he got a carrot.
The carrot doctor checked his other side then and found another spot where poor Spark flinched. He fixed that one too and Spark told me he felt so much better, it was amazing! He got another carrot and then the doctor fixed all his legs and checked his neck and feet and everything. Spark said he felt like a new horse and he got lots of pets and carrots before he went back in the pasture.
Well, I was getting impatient in my stall because I wanted carrots too. Sure enough, Mom put my halter and lead on and the carrot doctor came into my stall. He said hello to me and told me how pretty I am and what a pretty name I have. I like it when people tell me I'm pretty. He gave me a carrot too. That was nice.
Then he started going over me just like he did with Spark. It was fine until he got to a spot on my back just where the back of the saddle sits and it really hurt! I flinched, I couldn't help it, and he talked nicely to me and felt it carefully. Then he put his hands up there and somehow he sort of punched it and wow! I felt something move and all of a sudden the pain was gone! I couldn't believe it but he ran his poker thingy down my back again and there was nothing hurting.
Well, I liked that. He gave me a carrot and told me I was a Good Girl and I decided I was going to stand nice and still and let this guy do whatever he wanted. No one ever made me feel good like that so fast. Sure enough, he found another spot on my other side and that one hurt even worse. Oh, it hurt! It was hard for me to stand still when he found it but he talked softly to me and told me he was sorry for hurting me but he had to find just the right spot to make it feel better. He did, too. When he adjusted it (that's what they call it), I gave out a grunt because it felt so good.
He checked all my legs and my neck and everything but nothing else really hurt. It's funny, I knew my back hurt but I'd kind of gotten used to it feeling like that and I didn't know what to do to make it better. Sometimes I had to walk funny, like when I went downhill, because it wasn't comfortable and that's probably why I don't like to trot because it just hurts those spots. I feel a lot better now and I had a lot of carrots. And I was a Good Girl for the carrot doctor and I hope that handsome grey guy noticed. He sure is cute.
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