Happy Thanksgiving

Remember that Turkey carcass is not good for those critter to chew on....

HAPPY THANKSGIVING!
From all of the critters here on the farm!

Cocoa....

well, now on to the next critter.....

Cocoa , the miniature horse....

 

We have had cocoa for a number of years.....

We first got him for my oldest daughter, of course for the youngest as well....but he was gong to mainly be the oldest....she was four years old and so was Cocoa....he was a stallion when we got him...
A friend of ours told us to get him gelded , he would make a better pet with him being gelded so we did....the friend came over and with someone else help gelded him....my oldest thought they was killing him....
We sold him once or rather my hubby sold him, I really didn't want to sell him, but we did....needless to say he is back home where he belongs...the family we sold him to lived right down the road, they gave him back to us when the youngest came down with Leukemia...that is all she talked about while in the hospital during initial treatment....so they gave him back . I told my hubby he is here until he dies.....
He likes to race...loves roasted marshmallows...or course all of the other horse foods....

In the Spring when the other neighbors ride their horse by here, their is one horse they ride that gets spooked by him because it doesn't realize Cocoa is a horse....

Every time I am out gardening, pulling weeds( constant chore)...he nickers and gets a bucket full of the green weeds....

He puts on a very heavy coat every winter , he looks like a little bear, then come spring it all sheds off...
The girls have rode him when they was smaller, when we first got him....he is green broke and don't tolerate heavy people on his back.....
I enjoy watching him kick and buck when he is enjoying the weather or decides he needs to fill his cheerios...........

                                                                  ENJOY!

Cricket, the dashund...

This is Cricket...my oldest daughter`s dog....She doesn't like Trixie, the Chihuahua...yes, they are both housedogs...She doesn't like Aladdin (the oldest cat)....she will chase him, and chase him and bark at him like she has him treed.....
When we first got her she was a puppy....the oldest got her for Christmas a few years ago...the deal was that she had to get up in the night and take her outside....so Cricket is her baby.....She was loaded with fleas as well when we got her...We had to give her about a dozen of baths in Dawn dish soap...I really don't think the other flea shampoo does the trick, needless to say we even picked off the fleas after each bath....

If given the chance she will chase the rabbits....and she loves to go to school with me when I pick up the girls from school....she just acts crazy when I asked her if she wants to go to school...then when she gets there she looks at every child....She gets a little shaky when their are a bunch of them...but one on one she does good....she likes when the oldest daughter gets off the bus from the high school as well...she starts waging her tail....

That is all I can think of at that moment on this sweet little Cricket.....

Enjoy!

Browser, the beagle

 

Here is Browser Cameo girl beagle....she got him this past year...sorry I don't have any little cute pictures of him when he was a pup...

He was penned up for awhile but he has become a Houdini of sorts and kept getting out...so hence he is tied out right now...the times he was running loose h e ...tried to play with two of the baby Muscovy duckling that were almost full grown....needless to say they didn't make it...

He is going to be cameo girl rabbit hunting dog...she hasn't started training him as of yet...their isn't a whole of rabbits around here, at least we don't usually see a whole lot of them....

 

Beagles are known for the hunting ability....they are in the hound group of dogs...

 

Cameo girl was going to name the beagle homework , but decided against naming him that instead we came with browser...he will be browsing the woods looking for that rabbit