I think I mentioned something about the squirrels in the first post I made here. Pony hasn't done anything crazy lately. Maybe she is maturing. Doubt it, probably just waiting so she can surprise me with something big in a few weeks.
But back to the squirrels. We have 3 squirrels here with half tails. And another squirrel friend they have had to have a memorial service for. The squirrels are angry. Angry that Pony won't share her food with them. War was declared last year and I noticed that we had a little guy scampering around one day with half a tail. I figured one of our barn cats got him, as I seen Ashes playing with a bit of fur in the field the day before, and he lucked out and got away somehow.
Then I seen another squirrel with half a tail. I knew it wasn't the same one, because he was sitting on the fence next to the original one. "Okay...so my cat's aren't great hunters." I thought.
I go to pour Pony's feed into her pan and go brush and scritch on the other mare some and, I don't believe what I see next. Another squirrel hops down and gets INTO the feed tub with Pony's head in there. Pony didn't learn to share in kindergarten. Pony picks up squirrel by the tail and shakes it around a bit and flings it. Only, it's not a fling. The tail ripped off!
It wasn't the cats, it was my blasted PONY. Ripping off tails of squirrels. Seriously Pony???
So I moved her feed tub to the other side of the field the next day. Another little squirrel comes to investigate (we have an endless supply of these guys around here I think). He hops down beside her and picks up bits of things she's knocked out of her feed tub. Without batting an eye, she picks up a front leg and just stomps down. R.I.P. Squirrel #4
That was the last I seen of squirrels going near Pony, but who knows what they've been planning over the winter. I only hope Pony and the Squirrels can come to a peace agreement soon.
