Rain rain go away

Well, we're now seeing the effects of all this mud.  It's not Tama though, it's his beloved big bro Hokey Pokey.  Hokey's had an abscess which has burst out at his coronet band, so the whole wall is separated.  VERY sore, and very concerning, and we're just crossing fingers there's no long term damage.

Hokey is stabled next door and Tama spent a while neighing to him (his voice obviously hasn't broken yet, he has a very shrill little neigh).  Tama settled pretty quickly though and now he and Honey are having some bonding time just the two of them.

I've had my hands pretty full with caring for Hokey so haven't done a lot, but Tama and I did do another session today with the hose.  He got to the stage where he was ok with standing in the water while the hose was lying on the ground, but he's still very suspicious of it.  It'll take another couple of sessions I imagine (unless of course he does what he has done in the past, which is to have a think about things and then wake up in the morning knowing exactly what to do).  I'm not holding out hope though, because I've never seen him quite so worried about anything as he is about the hose.  That said, "worried" for Tama is a relative term - he certainly doesn't freak out, he just snorts a bit and then plants his feet like a wee donkey and refuses to go near it. Luckily he loves his food, so it's not too difficult to convince him to try.

Tama's going to have a big adventure in a couple of days, when I walk him up the driveway to visit Hokey and have his feet trimmed.  Hopefully he won't be too stunned at the change of scenery and will allow Katie to trim his feet.

HP in his new temporary accommodation