My story continues....

When we last talked I had just arrived here on the farm and met my new friends. I was supposed to be put in a paddock so as to keep me from walking around too much. But I was brought here to be a pet to Precious. And the human girl didn't like the idea of me being couped up like that. I was rather happy she had that notion in her head because here there was grass to graze on. I had not really had any grass to graze on in a very long time. The human girl told me that I should be mindful of my injury and not over exert myself so I just just walked around slowly eating the wonderful grass. When it came feeding time she did put me in a pen, for my own good, she said. She would carry out a big bucket with warm water and epsom salts in it and set it on the ground. Then she would get my feed and put it into my feeding barrel. That is when she would pick my leg up and put my foot into the bucket. I didn't mind that at all. It made my foot feel a lot better. Seemed to take some of the heat out of it and throbbing. I would stand there with my foot in that big white bucket and eat my feed then just stand there with my foot in the bucket till she told me it was ok to take it out.

For the first few days she would leave me in the pen overnight and let me out in the mornings. That was ok with us. I would stand on one side of the gate and Precious would stand on the other. Then one afternoon the human lady left the farm. I was not real sure that was a good thing but Precious told me it happens sometimes and that she always comes back. And she did come back but something bad happened while she was gone and hour or two or a lifetime which is what it seemed like.

I had big spot of infection start to come out of my leg right above the injured foot and the human man was just about worried sick. He was trying to get me to go to my pen but my foot really really hurt so much that I didn't want to stand on it much less try to walk. So the man went into the house and came back out with the white bucket. He did not do the water like the human lady. The water was cold. I think that might have been a good thing thinking back on it. Anyway he put my foot into that bucket and had me standing there for some time then he said I could go if I could or just stand there till the lady got home if I couldn't.

It wasn't much later before she did come home and I was so happy to see her I forgot how my foot was hurting. She called me her Pretty Boy and told me to come on and she would help me. I could hear her muttering to herself as we walked ever so slowly towards that red barn. She was saying 'mercy me mercy me mercy me' over and over again. I know now she does that while she is thinking of what needs to be done first. Well she said ' Get me a bucket of warm water and a cup of epsom salts please we will be at the barn'. He did and we stood in that bucket of water till moon was up in the sky and the coyotes were singing to it. The whole time the human lady was telling me and Precious that it was going to be ok. Everything is going to be ok. Well we thought she must be right since she said it so many times. She gave both of us a final pat and a hug and told us she would see us in the morning at first light.