Oh Ozzie i’m so sorry!

What a morning…

Walked Dexter out for a quiet stroll this morning – his knee was very swollen.

On our meander, we saw Oscar the pig. He has been getting out of his yard and going to visit all his horsey friends in the area. He loves horses, and loves people and loves to spend time with all of them. So he decided to join us on our walk. He wanted to play, but Dexter (who was just a little freaked out, having not spent too much time around Oscar) was not really getting the “let’s play” hint. We headed off towards Oscar’s home and he obviously thought “uh oh, she’s trying to take me home!” and kept trying to stop Dexter from going forward, by standing in front of his legs… This is never a good thing when you are the size of a small dog, and the horse is well.. horse-sized.

By this stage, Dexter was rather unhappy and was prancing around. so i decided to get off, to prevent anything “bad” happening (it being dangerously close to the anniversary of my bad accident)… i hopped off and Dexter chose that moment to stand on poor little Oscar’s foot.

His one nail came off and of course there was blood everywhere. I am not very good with blood, so was feeling woozy and sick in an instant…

I knew vaguely where Oscar lived, so i jogged off down the road with dexter in tow (nipping at my shoulder) to find his owners…

i found the little girl and asked her to please come – she was very smart and fetched bandages (when i explained what had happened) and we went to sit with poor Ozzie while we waited for her mum to come. She said it would take about 10 minutes, so i said i’d take Dex home and come back and take them to the vet. Poor Oscar was shivering and in shock. I felt so bad But it wasn’t anyone’s fault. Not the horse or the pig or me.

So i towed dexter home and untacked and got him back into his paddock – but they were gone when i got there. So i called the number the little girl had dialed on my phone and she said they were at the vet, waiting to go in. I asked her to please let me know how he is.

I feel so bad about it Poor friendly little pig and that has to happen to him. And of course it has to be poor Dexter who does it. The gentlest little horse ever. *sigh*

I just hope Ozzie will be ok. Do pig nails grow back? I did give the girl the nail, but i don’t know if she took it with her to the vet.

I hope this makes Oz more careful around horses at least – he’s been playing with some rather large friends recently… something was bound to happen.

So i’m feeling wobbly and ick… and i’m off to fly in a helo at 2pm. hooray me.

UPDATE: Toni (owner of Oscar) sms’d me to say he’s fine, just limping and on pain killers and hopefully this will make him more cautious around horses!

What a relief! *sigh*

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I got on to freenode this afternoon and was shocked to find out that lilo was no longer with us.

He was a friend, always cheery. He never had an ego, and only shared his opinion when asked. He never wanted to rule the world, just make it a little easier to work in.

I will miss you lilo.

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