Camera Critters, Petpride: Sleeping beauties

Don't fight with the pillow, but lay down your head And kick every worriment out of the bed. ~Edmund Vance Cooke

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Camera Critters, Petpride: Mistake

Snoes (pronounced appropriately somewhat like Snooze) misinterpreted the word Bird Feeding Table. She's waiting for a bird to come and feed her.

Easy mistake to make.

Camera Critters

Petpride

Camera Critters & Pet Pride: Unlikely friends

Our pets all like each other. A lot.

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Camera Critters/Pet Pride: Is it a brown giraffe?

What kind of critter is this? It could be a brown giraffe...

...or perhaps some sort of camel...

...wait...I think I know what sort of critter this is...

...it's our cute little foal Evie, pulling funny faces while enjoying a nice scratch!

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Camera Critters 64 & PetPride

Due to the lovely weather I am a very absent and lazy blogger these last weeks. I can't bring myself to go inside and sit behind my computer to write a post or even to visit your blogs. The garden takes up all my energy and attention. Living in the Netherlands, the sun isn't a daily visitor, so I'm making the most of all the sunshine sent to us down here ;-) Therefore I am combining two Sunday-memes into a Tuesday post. This is our 'goldie oldie' Phoebe. She's 12 and still going strong. Although she seems a little bored here ;-) Biggles (featuring in my previous post) is her best friend. Late in the evening, when we call the dogs for their last walk of the day, sometimes Phoebe is so fast asleep that she hasn't heard us calling her. But Biggles always goes to her to wake her up. He pushes his nose into her side until she stands up and comes with him. He doesn't want to leave the house without her. So sweet.

Two fun memes about animals: Camera Critters and PetPride.

Camera Critters 63, desensitizing horses

Yesterday I visited a 'schriktraining' at the stables where a good friend of ours keeps her horse (she is 'no. 6', the one with the big dark brown/white Tinker). 'Schrik' is the Dutch word for 'scare' or 'frighten'. These horses will never be frightened of anything anymore. They will not raise an eyebrow if a big pink hairy scary monster pops out of a dustbin. Riders, horses and audience had a great time. It certainly gave me some ideas for training our horses at home. Although I don't think Evie will have problems walking through the caution-line-curtain that scared the shit out of most horses (literally, the green wheelbarrow you can see in some of the pictures is full of it).

Camera Critters is a fun meme, hosted by Misty Dawn.

Camera Critters 62, Say aah

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Camera Critters 61, rear view

Is it something I said?

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Camera Critters 60, Evie is growing up

April 10, two days old. First time out and staying very close to mommy.

May 12, growing up fast.

And when you are part of the Brinkbeest-household, you get to meet all sorts of critters.

Meeting Holle, one of our labradors, for the first time.

No, this is not one of the other labradors. This is Nufnuf, one of our pigs.

Our other horse Willem, having a little talk with Tumtum, our other pig. Willem used to be REALLY scared of the pigs. He wouldn't even come near us if we had just touched a pig. The smell made him tremble. But Tumtum is a patient and very friendly pig who likes horses. So now Willem is pigproof.

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Camera Critters 59, pastures new

Last week on sunday we moved the horses to a field where our friend keeps his mare & foal and also a one year old horse. So Evie has some other horses to play with. And they have lots and lots of grass to eat. Moving our horses involved a couple of borrowed horse trailers, 4 friends and a lot of stress. Willem is used to traveling, Naloma hadn't seen a horse box or trailer for years, and with Evie.....well...thát and the idea of them not being at home for the coming 8 weeks or so....it made me quite upset. But it's so good for Evie to have some little friends to play with and our fields need a rest to allow the grass to grow. Willem went into the horse box without any hesitation. We removed the body-divider from the trailer we were going to put Evie and Naloma in, to allow Evie to stand next to her mother. But this meant that we couldn't put the bar behind Naloma to prevent her from walking backwards and out of the trailer again. Which was exactly what she did of course, just as we wanted to close the trailer ramp. (I'm sorry, I don't know the terms you use for all those things we call 'klep', 'tussenschot' and 'stang'. Please bear with me ;-)) Anyway....so, just as we were closing the ramp, Naloma decided she wanted to leave the trailer again. And I am not quite sure how it all happened, but the ramp with 600 kilogrammes horse on it somehow landed on my upper legs. Miraculously it only left me with badly bruised legs. I never knew so many different shades of blue, purple, red and yellow existed. But actually, considering what could have happened, it isn't all that bad. The cats are not allowed on my lap for the coming weeks, but I can walk so I'm happy, even if the cats are not. And after this happened Naloma went into the trailer again, where Evie was patiently waiting for her mother, and stayed there. So we drove to the nearby town (these fields are on the outskirts of a town, very close to where our friends' house is, so they can keep an eye on them) to let them loose on pastures new. Well, new to them anyway. We miss them terribly, so every morning I'm off to the horses to check if everything is alright and to give them a hug. And every evening hubs and I are there to check. And our friends are there twice a day too. And the farmer who owns the field is keeping a eye on them. So they get enough attention. It's sort of a large patch of green, with all sorts of birds and rabbits and hares and cows and lots of other horses and even storks living there, surrounded by houses and schools. I can't wait for them to come home again. In about 8 weeks. I will, however, let someone else close the trailer. You can click on the pictures to enlarge them ;-) They are not the best pictures I've ever made, hehe.

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Camera Critters 58, Funny Foal

Evie is now 5 weeks old and definitely has a sense of humour:

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Camera Critters 57, Evie and her neighbours

Evie, her mother Naloma and 'uncle' Willem in the field our neighbours very kindly offered to us, so that we have more meadow for our horses. It doesn't look very green, but three weeks ago it looked even worse. You can see the rest of their field, that has not been mowed, in the background and on the right. Kind of a wilderness that has not been touched for more than 10 years.

But our horses are very happy that they are allowed to graze there. And so are we because it means that our own meadow can get some rest.

Our neighbour's house is in the background there. Behind Evie's big butt ;-) We live on the other side of the trees. Part of the field that is nearer to the house has much better grass, because they mowed that last year. Evie also has some flying neighbours. They live in the stables. If winter comes they fly off to warmer climates, but in spring they return to their old nest.

They are 'boerenzwaluwen', or european swallows (Hirundo rustica). Superfast and agile flyers.

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