my extra thanks to the 532 people who bought a bale--that makes my life soooo much easier because when you are responsible for a horse or donkey,, you must provide the necessary vegitation for thier survival--- they can not live without it.... hay is not the salad course before the steak dinner-- it IS THE DINNER.  it is hard for me to understand how a few blades of grass can keep  a 1000 pound horse  alive and blossoming.. i watch alot of zoo shows and it is even more unbelieavable to watch someone feed a handfull of hay to a waiting elephant.

Googling tells me that the elephants eat about. 350 pounds of vegetation a day which apparently is anything from grass to small trees,, so 350 pounds of our hay would be about 10 bales for one elephant... I think I'm lucky I lost the bid...?what bid?     at one point in my life I did bid on an elephant that was being auctioned off there's a long time ago from benson's animal farm.. and I did want to place a bid so I could always say that I had once bid on an elephant and it certainly is true... I'm also certainly glad I didn't win it because I'll tell you another funny story about elephants that I know.. when I was in the business of providing animals for commercials movies and things like that it became familiar with a guy named Bob who owned several elephants down there in Connecticut oh and he also provided the elephants for the rides at the topsfield fair I think comford may be his name any rate yeah the elephants lived in a big arena sort of place and were basically tied by a an ankle chain um to one area of the arena but one night somehow someone did not hook up one of the elephants properly and it was loose.. as he explains they elephants had seen people running water into various water tubs across the arena and they like water so the elephant went over there to investigate and finally did take a hold of the pipe that produced the water and justice gave a little bit of a pull which broke the pipe and started the water gushing and the elephant thought that was great fun so he followed the pipe backwards and kept pulling it off and getting more water and pulling it off and getting more water and nobody noticed this until morning when part of the arena had collapsed and the elephant was having a lovely time play with the water I think Bob said there was $150,000 worth of damage done by one loose elephant... which makes me doubly glad I didn't win the bid on the elephant I'm happy to say that all animals elephants tigers whatever I live in living a much better life now than they did when I was a lot younger.   some of the zoo shows do a fantastic job of keeping animals in Social groups... i am   also fascinated to watch them train a giraffe to put thie foot on a stool... So that someone can trim their feet.... or line up their tummy is next to the wall so that they can do an ultrasound see if they're pregnant---   it's kind of interesting to me at least.

 

loose animals are a fact of life. I can't get all upset if dogs get loose once in a while it's going to happen and all you can do is address the problem of\  how they got loose and try and minimize the damage they do when they are loose----- I'm happy to say at least when we went to bed last night--- little Wanda is fine with what was called blunt trauma with apparently no i internal bleeding so basically on we go... get over it..  People are going to make mistakes.... gates are not going to be shut every once in a while--- those double ended snaps will either miss or get broken It's going to happen..

  I once got into  a conversation by saying people make stupid mistakes... and then whoever I was talking to came back at me by saying “tell me a mistake that's not stupid.”. which turned into a very interesting conversation over an awful lot of beer. –  I do put into that category. people who need to be rescued from Mount Everest by other people who are then risking their lives to rescue some people who of their own free will got themselves in the mess..  and I'm not too sure how I feel about the five people who got in the submarine to go look at the Titanic. I'm very glad no one else lost their lives trying to save them..   somewhere in here the Darwinian theory comes into play.

so as i try and stay on the right side of the darwinian theroy of survival ... i again thank the 532 hay buyers..