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Well…that’s the question…..

We’ve started having people leaning over the front fence trying to feed and attract the horses to come closer…..

In the past…..I was cool with that…..

…..not so much anymore…..

…..I’m sure you remember…..four years ago we lost so many (9) of our horses (our friends) to poisoning…..

~~~”The Final Report”, Blog-Post~~~

~~~”It’s Not Over Yet”, Blog-Post~~~

We never really got a clear-cut answer about HOW they were poisoned and killed…..

…..but it was Botulism Type-B poisoning…..

Botulism poisoning is a confusing combination of a lot of factors…..it only takes a very small amount to kill a horse…..(the size of the top of a pencil eraser)…..

…..(sigh)…..

So you see…..I’m not real open to the idea of suburban people driving out to the country to coax our animals closer to feed and pet them…..

I’ll be blunt…..I don’t trust them…..

Fool me once…..shame on you…..but fool me twice………….yeah…..no…..

So what to do with the uninvited/urban/suburbanites…..I can’t be out there 24/7…..

I’ve been told that shouted obscenities are frowned upon…..not to mention well-aimed sling-shots or 12-gauges…..

So what’s a paranoid-farmer to do…..(?)…..

…..my first thought was…..a thick bamboo perimeter…..

…..my friend Doctor Brigid has bamboo around her property…..the same urban/suburbanites were deterred from bothering her llamas and goats…..because of the foreboding/thick foliage…..

But…..she has sunny/well-cleared property…..and I have a murky/soggy swamp…..

…..not so good for healthy growing bamboo…..

BUT…..native/prickly/thorny/tall/dense blackberry bushes…..now that might just be the ticket…..!…..

…..so I’m doing my research…..

It looks like blackberry bushes like sun…..and semi-sun…..and sometimes shade…..

…..and they like drought…..and rain…..and they don’t like being bothered by overly-keen horticulturalists…..

…..(so that one’s easy…..I’ll plant them and ignore them)…..

…..the berries would be nice…..but it’s really the bushy thorns I want…..

…..(anti-social much?)…..

Sooooo…..

…..that’s my next project…..(I’ll let you know how it turns out)…..

…..it’s not that I don’t like people…..

…..oh wait…..

…..I don’t like people…..

 

 

 

 

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