THERE'S A NEW GIRL AT FOREVER HOME.............

She actually had another name, but I think there was over an hour spent this afternoon coming up with quite a few names, to choose from.  

We've done this before, we brought home a little mini mule named Donkey  a few years ago which just wasn't right.  We came up with some names and everyone had a vote.  Unfortunately we had an even number of voters and tied.  So a friend called her sister and she broke the tie voting for the name Gizmo.  He's been in foster care along with another of our mules named Reba and will probably stay there, even though he hasn't been adopted.  It's a wonderful caring home. 

This time we had an uneven numbers of voters but the decision was made to each vote for 2 names.  We ended up with a tie...............!!!!  Voted again and Mariah won.  

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She wasn't in a big hurry to come out of the trailer

Mariah is a very pretty girl, seems very calm and curious

She's suppose to be pregnant, but as soon as she was in her pen, she started trying to catch the attention of some of the geldings..........hmmmmm......!!!  

As calm as she is, we might let her out to roam around tomorrow.  The others, have come by her pen to check her out and that's about it.  

Her feet need to be trimmed as soon as possible.  Courtney is coming out Friday, as long as her feet are she probably hasn't been trimmed since she was captured by the BLM last summer.  She's only  about 2 years old having feet long like that is hard on her legs and tendons at such an early age when she is developing.  

She'll probably be here awhile until we can figure out if she is pregnant or not.  If she is everyone here is anxious to have a baby donkey around to play with.  Of course Lynn and Linda will be heading back to Colorado in just a couple of weeks, so if she is they might miss the birth.  Suzanne has promised to take lots of pictures and videos if it happens.  

This morning we had a chiropractor come out for the 2nd time for Bella. He thinks she has had damage to her neck.   She has problems with her rear legs and has a hard time getting up when she lays down.  It's a long term problem, when she gets up she sits on her fanny and struggles up.  Both of her hind legs have calluses on the back of her hocks, so she's been getting up like that for a long time.  I wonder if anyone ever noticed?  

This is the 2nd time he's worked on her and it seems to help, she's doing much better than she was last week when he was here.  

He also is one of those people that seems to be attuned to the aura field around animals and people.  I don't really understand it, but I respect it, because I've seen people like that find things that they had no knowledge of beforehand.  

One of our pens in fact the last one to the west has always seemed to make the donkeys uncomfortable if they were in it.  Two of them had to be moved to another pen, because they wouldn't go in  that pen.  We asked him to go down to the pen, didn't tell him why.  He walked around in the pen for a few minutes, and said there was nothing wrong in the pen and pointed NW of the pen.  He got so upset, he almost threw up.  He said there was a massacre, Indian women and children.  He said it isn't scary or dangerous, just overwhelmingly sad.  

We know there were tribes in this area, one of the travel corridors passed by here along the San Pedro river.  Suzanne is going to go to the Amerind Foundation and see if she can find any local information that might be helpful.  I'm sure many people were massacred all over the country that were never even noticed, but she might find some local history that would give us a clue.