I’m short on time these days with Jocelyn in the hospital. Today is day 28 for her and she’s nearly ready to be moved to rehab. Sometime I’ll write about her saga, but for now, I’ll update Nyla’s stories.
Nyla is an amazingly excellent groundhog killer and proud of her self-appointed job of clearing our land of the little cute, but menacing creatures. She’s killed 8 in the past 2.5 weeks! There’s a colony about a 1/2 mile from home – across the big field. When she kills one out there, she proudly brings them home. She’s so cute, huffing and puffing her way down the hill with her mouth full of groundhog.
Nyla continues to enjoy her friend, Aurora, who is now 5 months old and around 300 pounds. She trusts Aurora completely and will lay flat out while Aurora sniffs her from head to tail. Aurora lets Nyla kiss her nose. Nyla loves her Aurora and lets Aurora lip her soft hair.
I love watching Nyla wind in and out of Aurora’s legs. Aurora is so careful to pay attention to Nyla’s comings and goings, too. My recent fun with the two of them was to put Nyla on Aurora’s back. Aurora enjoys having Nyla on her back, but Nyla prefers to ride the tractors and the quad. They’re very cute together and Serenity Equestrian Center is enjoying having such adorable and loving animals as Nyla and Aurora.
Sometime soon, I hope – I’ll post some pix of them together. ‘Til then, I hope this finds all of you well.
June 26, 2009 at 2:36 am
Hi Ben and Gayla, Please keep us posted on Jocelyn. I hope she is feeling better! She is in our prayers.