I hurt myself the other day. It was pretty dumb and it's got me feeling pretty mad. I'm not sure how I did it in the first place. My mom thinks I probably bashed it barging around in my stall. That could be. I sometimes do get a little excited in my stall when she's not there, or when Coco leaves, or when Sparky's mom won't pay attention to me, or when the hay truck is coming. Once in a while I kind of kick, or bang on the door with my front foot, or bash at my feed tub, or fight with Coco or Mickey. So I guess I might have hurt myself doing something like that but was too excited to notice at the time.
My mom noticed it right off yesterday. She took me out and brought me to the Round Pen and as soon as she let me loose, she asked me, "Bella, are you off?" Well, that was kind of a dumb question because I really didn't have any way of saying if I was or wasn't but sometimes people say things and don't expect an actual answer. So then she waved her whip at me and asked me to trot but as soon as I did, I noticed that my leg hurt a little bit so I didn't want to. So I trotted about three steps and switched back to a walk.
Well, I guess that wasn't enough for her to see if I was limping or where so she asked me again and I did the same thing and so she felt all my legs and watched me walk and all kinds of stuff but still wasn't sure so she asked me to trot again and I got mad and started to trot pretty fast and almost immediately tripped and nearly fell on my face and then I was really limping.
She quickly stopped me and felt my leg again because now she knew just where it was and I was mad because it was all her fault for making me go fast when I didn't want to. I didn't stay mad long though because she felt bad and gave me a cookie and apologized and she took me to the water hose and hosed my leg for a long time which helped make it feel better. But it was still sore.
So she dried it off and put some medicine on it and she put some of that funny tasting medicine in my food - the stuff that makes me feel kind of sleepy. It does seem to make hurty parts feel better though.
Today she checked it again and put some Nice Cubes on it. Well, I remembered what that was all about because when I hurt my leg one other time, I had to have Nice Cubes so I was good about it. Besides she gave me a hay snack and she brought some of that Watered Melon that she gave us one time. That was so good. I ate lots of it and so did Spark and Coco and Raz and Chip and Mickey and the new horse who's in Favre's old stall. Favre moved out. I thought he might be gone away from the farm but one day when we went riding around the Loop we saw him in another stall up by the manure pile. So he's still here which will make Spark happy because they're friends.
The new horse looks nice. She's a mare and that's good because we needed more mares in this barn. And today two new horses moved into the pasture. I got to see them really close because their mom tied them right outside my stall while she took some wraps off their legs. They're both bay and they're both Thoroughbreds like me so I poked my nose right out toward them and said hello. They were both very polite and didn't say much - they'd had a long trailer ride and were kind of tired. But they seemed nice and when they went out in the pasture with the other horses, everyone got along fine.
Before all that happened though, my mom finished up with the Nice Cubes and then took me to hose my leg again. I was kind of frisky and hoping to go to the Round Pen to run but she wouldn't let me and when I walked back up the little hill by Chip's stall, my knee hurted and I remembered I had a bad leg. She put more medicine on it and then got to work on my stall but I asked to come in with her and she let me. She got mad at me though because I went out in the paddock while she was cleaning and got into a little fight with Coco.
I couldn't help it - Coco was poking her nose at my mom like she wanted to get petted and I got mad and put my ears back and rushed at her to tell her that she had no business getting petted by MY mom, but I got all tangled up in that big wheelie bucket thing and almost fell inside it and scared myself about silly and hurt my leg again and my mom yelled at me. So that wasn't any fun.
Then my mom finished up and went to take care of Spark so I just hung out in my paddock for a while until she fed me. That was nice. She put my carrots in my dinner but she also gave me more of the Watered Melon and she gave some to the new pasture horses too because they were right there when I got mine. I didn't mind. I thought it was nice of my mom to do that and they seemed to like it.
Now I'm all settled in and kind of drowsy because she put more of that medicine in my food. I hope my leg feels better tomorrow because I'm already sick of Stall Rest.
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