The weather couldn't be nicer than it is right now. It's 75 degrees this afternoon, clear blue skies, just a gorgeous day. This is the weather people come to Arizona to enjoy.
All the donkeys are doing good, except Big Gus has a lump between his jawbones and has been slobbering. I started him on antibiotics a couple of days ago and let Dr. Jeremy know we might need him to come out if the slobbering and lump don't go away. He's acting just fine, but with donkeys it's hard to tell if they aren't feeling well. The weak in the herd get eaten, so they are very good at hiding injuries and sickness, which is really a detriment to their health.
We had a couple of tours this morning, and lately when we have tours Big Gus has to stay in his pen. He is not a team player when it comes to sharing attention with the other donkeys on tours. He knows he's being mistreated and really let's us know he's not happy. One woman spent a lot of time with him, he laid his head on the corral panels and really worked on showing her what a special boy he is.
Everyone else is doing good. We are having some porn tours though. The donkeys, boys and girls seem to think it's spring. I can't figure out who is the worst, the girls start it and the boys join right in. One day Linda and Lynn had a training run going on. They were out on the main road and one of the girls, not sure which one, gave Oliver the eye and before it was over people in cars were stopping and taking pictures.......LOL
Sometimes we have to divert the tour in a different direction, especially if there are children on it. Even though all our boys are gelded, some of them obviously have memories of another time...!!
The scratching post is up and open for business. We haven't caught anyone using it, but there are feet prints all around it, so assume they are trying it out when we aren't looking. On the internet a guy put one up for his cows and said it took them 14 seconds to try it out. We had a woman on a tour, that tried it out and said it works really good....LOL
Went out to check the scratching post and caught Rosie peeking around the corner of the feed room. The post is right behind her and she's the one that was scratching when it was laying on the ground, so she might have been using it.
This is one of the latest training runs out here. As you can see, they try to make it interesting and run on different types of ground.
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