AOL JOURNAL WEEKEND ASSIGNMENT - IF PETS COULD TALK

If I could ask my pet one question and it could actually answer me back - what would I ask it?...hmmmmmm.....good one.

I think I would have to go back several years and ask one of my horses, an Anglo-Arabian mare named Roc-a-neuf......WHY THE HECK ARE YOU SO ACCIDENT PRONE????  This mare had more stitches than Frankenstein!  She found every loose board, every nail, every sharp edge of anything, and became very adept of seeing just how much damage she could do at one time.  My other horse, Champ, went through his whole life with me with only one "emergency" vet visit, and that was to biopsy a lump that appeared on his girth line.

I guess the worst scare that Roc gave me was the time she ran her hoof through a woven wire fence, and then pulled back, almost cutting her whole hoof off.  THAT was a lovely time.  She had to wear a "boot" because it couldn't be stiched and had to heal from "the inside out".  Lovely.  I had to run cold water on it three times a day, then dry it and pack it with "yucky blue stuff" and wrap it, AND she had to had an antibiotic shot every other day for two weeks. OH HAPPY TIMES!

And if she wasn't satisfied with that - she passed on the trait to her filly, Lark.  She carried Lark for a year and a day (normal time is 11 months).  When Lark was born she looked like she was a month old, and bless her little heart, had stiches before she was 24 hours old!  We never did find out how she got hurt in a stall that had no nails, no loose boards, and straw and bedding a foot deep.

The more I think about it now, I think that Roc would have answered my questions with "I LOVE Dr. Lawson and I want to see him at least once a week".  Had I known that at the time, he would have had a standing invitation for dinner once a week.  It certainly would have been cheaper for me, and a lot less painful for her.

Bless her heart, she lived 28 years and I still miss her.