Spooks, Llamas and gaiting

[Sleipners@aol.com]

I've enjoyed all the spooky stories. The biggest spooks I get are from rocks. 
Plain old boulders. The same ones he passes every week. They seem to remain 
dangerous somehow.  Tractors, burning fields, hot air balloons, tailgaiting 
dirt bikes, low flying aircraft, ground birds exploding from the brush, 
coyotes running along side, elk running ahead, cows with bells, horses with 
bear bells...  All okay. It's just the rocks.  As for Llamas, the first time 
Jake was adjusted in my vet's treatment room (he was usually done outdoors) 
was quite a treat. There were two sick llamas, an alpaca with her baby, a 
squeeze pen, a sling and assorted shiny metal implements of the veternarian 
profession. Jake walked right in, looked around a bit, and let the doc fix 
him right up. He seems to enjoy the other animals. 

Oh, and Jake is a purebred Polish Arabian, and he gaits. Not all of the 
multiple fancy gaits of the truly gaited breeds, but he does gait. And his 
gaited walk is to die for. So I think I'd stick with him over another gaited 
breed. I got the best of both worlds. He's so smooth, that today we carried a 
crippled baby robin 5 miles in a saddle bag and she's doing great. She'll 
never be flying or hopping again, but how many birds can say they've ridden 
in a gaited arabian's saddle bag and lived to tell the tale?

Ride On!

Linda-Cathrine, LMT
Sleipners@aol.com


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