I walked the dogs today and went down to the Shetland ponies’ field to a) count fence posts as I am having wooden ones put in where I built the new track and b) see how everyone was doing.
They’re all doing fine, thank you very much for asking.
Though, I think they all look fatter but I won’t know this for sure until they are weighed.
How the ponies can be fat on virtually nothing remains a mystery to me.
I am now telling myself that all Spring grass is rocket fuel to them. I was told this by a Shetland pony breeder whose father told her. So any small blade of “rocket fuel” will not helping their waistlines.
Still, they can all move and spend their day listening for the slightest thing so that they can gallop up and down the hills regularly checking whether I have left some chocolate cake out for them, which I most definitely have not!
Waffle is looking very majestic! Look at that abundance of mane, gorgeous
As for Newt…..it’s giving ‘miniature wooly mammoth’, but hey, that’s always been his look!
When my husband makes comments about the cats’ primordial pouches getting a bit ‘pouchier’ than normal, I say that perhaps their hair is getting thicker (even though I know that they are all shorthairs & their pouchier pouches are really due to good food & very long cat naps). Obviously, you know about the ‘wee fatties’, but I wonder if the spring ‘rocket fuel’ could be just be the same hair thickening as our cats have. I am sure your group would prefer my ‘thickening hair’ hypothesis (flawed,evidently, as it is with both ponies as well as cats) to Spartan rations for spring fitness regimes. ;-}
Re “ How the ponies can be fat on virtually nothing remains a mystery to me.” same applies to my body. A real mystery indeed.
Frances, everyone looks happy indeed.