Post by Ally S on Dec 31, 2007 14:33:33 GMT 1
Greetings my friends. Ally S tells me that lots of people involved in my rescue five years ago have moved on from the DG and that lots of the new folk won't know or have heard of me. Hmph! My name is Medallion Manny Merlin and I was rescued from a life of hell in Spain 5 years ago by the good people of the DG. Ally S says as a thank you I must continue to update those who helped of my progress.
2007 has been a good and bad year. The good is that I continue to live in peace with my mate Mattie (bit of a dandy he is really - he's even got a purple bridle) and AllyS continues to feed me and look after me. However - and here comes the bad. She does not feed me enough! Not only that, but all summer she 'strip grazed' me! Admittedly I was on the large side of well covered, but I felt it was unnecessary to announce out loud 'dear God Manny, you look like a buffalo'. I have girlfriends in the neighbourhood who could have overheard! Anyway, that statement was followed by a hard hard summer which I was lucky to survive what with the sparse food and the constant commenting on my weight. Thank goodness I finally got to a size that SHE was happy with, and am now back in my 8 acre field with just Mattie.... and 50 sheep who eat most of the grass and are a major pain, but SHE says we need them. Still, life is good (apart from the food issue) and I do look forward to seeing her as she clearly loves me and I've never been loved before.
She decided I needed my teeth rasped the other day. Why on earth would I need that? Hmph! When I first came to England I wouldn't let anyone do anything to me and she couldn't get a rug on me, do my feet, groom me - nothing! She's worked me through this, and now I am happy to accept all of that. But my mouth and ears remain no go zones. Why would I want to allow anyone to look in my mouth? But AllyS can be unfair. She brings a man, who claims to be a nice guy, and then jabs me in the neck, and the next thing I'm floating over the valley, and the colours are amazing, and I love AllyS I really really love her and I'm confident and nothing in the world can hurt me, and if I was human I'd be singing 'moonlight becomes you, it goes with your hairrrrrrrrrrrrr'. And then the drugs wear off, and there she is laughing and smoothing me, and honestly it's sooooo embarrassing! My only consolation is that I didn't make it easy for them to get the drugs in, and they both have the bruises to prove it. Ha!
Oooh. One really exciting thing was we got burgled. Proper burglars broke in and stole everything. Mattie was really scared, but I found it really exciting, and when Ally S arrived to see what had happened, I couldn't wait to lead her to the tack room and show her. She wasn't happy mind - all that fuss over a saddle, bridle, headcollars, ropes and a generator! Hmph. Some people have too little to think about!
My best girlfriends Hazel and Molly have moved now, so I am very sad that they can no longer break out of their yard repeatedly to come and see me. The local stallion continues to roar at me as he is ridden past, and I continue to climb the muck heap and roar right back at him. Call himself a stallion? The ladies have always been more interested in me that him - even though I'm supposedly 'gelded' whatever that means. I think whatever it involves, it's meant to stop me liking girls and girls liking me - hah! It hasn't worked then! I remain Spanish and proud and ladies luuuuurve me!!
So, all that remains is for me to appeal to each and every one of you to just provide me with the few things that AllyS seems unable to provide. If you could post the following direct to my field I would be very grateful.
A herd of mares (not worried about age, colour or breeding - I've never been a materialistic boy)
A lorry load of oats (can you believe we're not allowed sugar or cereal? How's a boy to keep his strength up??)
A lorry load of barley
500 tubs of Hilton Herbals
Unlimited sugar (granulated or molassed - never been fussy me)
More of those drugs! They were just amazing, and the colours were intense and, and, and 'moonlight becomes you......
Happy New Year all, from AllyS and HRH Medallion Manny Merlin.... x
2007 has been a good and bad year. The good is that I continue to live in peace with my mate Mattie (bit of a dandy he is really - he's even got a purple bridle) and AllyS continues to feed me and look after me. However - and here comes the bad. She does not feed me enough! Not only that, but all summer she 'strip grazed' me! Admittedly I was on the large side of well covered, but I felt it was unnecessary to announce out loud 'dear God Manny, you look like a buffalo'. I have girlfriends in the neighbourhood who could have overheard! Anyway, that statement was followed by a hard hard summer which I was lucky to survive what with the sparse food and the constant commenting on my weight. Thank goodness I finally got to a size that SHE was happy with, and am now back in my 8 acre field with just Mattie.... and 50 sheep who eat most of the grass and are a major pain, but SHE says we need them. Still, life is good (apart from the food issue) and I do look forward to seeing her as she clearly loves me and I've never been loved before.
She decided I needed my teeth rasped the other day. Why on earth would I need that? Hmph! When I first came to England I wouldn't let anyone do anything to me and she couldn't get a rug on me, do my feet, groom me - nothing! She's worked me through this, and now I am happy to accept all of that. But my mouth and ears remain no go zones. Why would I want to allow anyone to look in my mouth? But AllyS can be unfair. She brings a man, who claims to be a nice guy, and then jabs me in the neck, and the next thing I'm floating over the valley, and the colours are amazing, and I love AllyS I really really love her and I'm confident and nothing in the world can hurt me, and if I was human I'd be singing 'moonlight becomes you, it goes with your hairrrrrrrrrrrrr'. And then the drugs wear off, and there she is laughing and smoothing me, and honestly it's sooooo embarrassing! My only consolation is that I didn't make it easy for them to get the drugs in, and they both have the bruises to prove it. Ha!
Oooh. One really exciting thing was we got burgled. Proper burglars broke in and stole everything. Mattie was really scared, but I found it really exciting, and when Ally S arrived to see what had happened, I couldn't wait to lead her to the tack room and show her. She wasn't happy mind - all that fuss over a saddle, bridle, headcollars, ropes and a generator! Hmph. Some people have too little to think about!
My best girlfriends Hazel and Molly have moved now, so I am very sad that they can no longer break out of their yard repeatedly to come and see me. The local stallion continues to roar at me as he is ridden past, and I continue to climb the muck heap and roar right back at him. Call himself a stallion? The ladies have always been more interested in me that him - even though I'm supposedly 'gelded' whatever that means. I think whatever it involves, it's meant to stop me liking girls and girls liking me - hah! It hasn't worked then! I remain Spanish and proud and ladies luuuuurve me!!
So, all that remains is for me to appeal to each and every one of you to just provide me with the few things that AllyS seems unable to provide. If you could post the following direct to my field I would be very grateful.
A herd of mares (not worried about age, colour or breeding - I've never been a materialistic boy)
A lorry load of oats (can you believe we're not allowed sugar or cereal? How's a boy to keep his strength up??)
A lorry load of barley
500 tubs of Hilton Herbals
Unlimited sugar (granulated or molassed - never been fussy me)
More of those drugs! They were just amazing, and the colours were intense and, and, and 'moonlight becomes you......
Happy New Year all, from AllyS and HRH Medallion Manny Merlin.... x
