7/8/07 Seeing the light...

Ten days on from her operation and little Connie is not so little - her head now sees over the stable door and she's itching to get into some wider fields! She is well muscled from all that pirouetting around the box, sound, with the leg fully weightbearing. Everyone is so pleased. "..A million times better than I expected.. " said one visitor, who was not known to exagerate beforehand...

So Connie is growing up, feeling good and ready to get out and face the world. Looking into the light....

I think Mouse has felt the brunt of her exuberance - a scar on her shoulder that could only have come from a nip of those baby teeth, and tenderness on her sides from a kick perhaps? Why are children so tough on their parents?!

Mouse will be well pleased to be out too.. no-one told her that motherhood could be like this either. She has been so unlucky, yet losing the foal would not have been easy for her either. It may not be long until they come home - one more X-Ray. What a responsibility for me to take on though...