So this morning as I was shaking out hay into Tom's stall (one of the older horses who requires his flake of hay to be loosened up so he can chew it more easily) I heard something clunking inside of the flake. This in itself isn't unusual; I've been finding quite a few sticks and pieces of wood in the hay lately. Without thinking I reached in, grabbed the clunking thing, and tugged it out. When it fell free I screamed at the top of my lungs (embarrassing, I know) and jumped a good three feet back. I was looking at a turtle. A honest to goodness, smooshed up but still recognizable, TURTLE. A painted one, by the looks of it. Or maybe a box turtle? To be honest, I don't really know that much about them. I scooped the darn thing up with a pitch fork and tossed it into the woods, hopefully never to be seen again. But this just begs the question… what is the strangest/grossest/weirdest thing you have ever pulled out of the hay?
Monday, February 28, 2011
Turtle, Turtle!
So this morning as I was shaking out hay into Tom's stall (one of the older horses who requires his flake of hay to be loosened up so he can chew it more easily) I heard something clunking inside of the flake. This in itself isn't unusual; I've been finding quite a few sticks and pieces of wood in the hay lately. Without thinking I reached in, grabbed the clunking thing, and tugged it out. When it fell free I screamed at the top of my lungs (embarrassing, I know) and jumped a good three feet back. I was looking at a turtle. A honest to goodness, smooshed up but still recognizable, TURTLE. A painted one, by the looks of it. Or maybe a box turtle? To be honest, I don't really know that much about them. I scooped the darn thing up with a pitch fork and tossed it into the woods, hopefully never to be seen again. But this just begs the question… what is the strangest/grossest/weirdest thing you have ever pulled out of the hay?
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Part of a cat.... YUCK.
ReplyDeleteThat IS really, really gross. Poor thing!
ReplyDeleteI always seem to pull out dried out toads, and decomposed rats.
ReplyDeleteGross!
I've seen frogs, snakes, mice and even golfballs... but by far the weirdest has to be a dried up squirrel or a deer leg! This coming from the DV Equestrian Center!
ReplyDeleteA fox! We've gotten plenty of snakes so that's not so unusual, but no one expected a fox. It was kind of sad actually.
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