Hello hello
SHE'S BACK
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! A HUGE BIG THANK YOU TO EACH AND EVERYONE OF YOU FOR YOUR EXTREME KINDNESS, THOUGHTS AND SUPPORT.
Yesterday as I was collecting Noah (our youngest) from school my wife called me on my mobile to say our Maire was at the house as Mrs. DeVere was busy digging up someones garden and he had been called as the person who discovered her was a bit nervous of this huge animal in her garden.
As luck would have it a friend is here from the UK and a guy and his wife were here helping us make sausages and had brought a Peitrain X and had his horse box so I rushed back to where I was told she was (would you believe less than a kilometer & the only place I hadn't looked or thought of looking) and low and behold absolutely oblivious to all of the fuss and concern she nonchalently looked up and wandered off into a wood, then the fun really started.
Imagine, she had been out of her paddock for three days, had been totally self sufficient and had had high jinx with living the good life digging up acorns and generally doing as she pleased and then six people turn up to 'persuade' her (I now know that she weighs 320 -330 kilos) that she would be better off back in the old paddock. She was having none of it!!! we chased and caught, she escaped, we cornered and tied a rope on, she escaped, we bribed her with food and got her nearly home by walking her, she escaped so brute force, a great deal of pushing, pulling and arm waving and two hours later Mrs. DeVere was safely in the back of the horse box and was back home.
I left her to sleep off the excitment and fed her in the horse box to let her rest and be calm and then later today we went over gently with the horse box on the back of the tractor and let her out back into her enclosure. Guess what?? after ten minutes of pacing around she was off through the electric fence and heading back towards where she had been before!!! So race after her and chase and chase and fall over and chase some more before having to tie a rope to her back leg and again 'mildly suggest' that it would be in her best interest to do as she was asked as I was looking at her back quarters and thinking what lovely hams they would make if she didn't play ball, bless her!!!!
Tonight she is tucked up in the horse box whilst we prepare an indoor area for her to reaclimatise to her life before she went walkabout on the equivalent of her 18-30's holiday. At least she is back where she belongs and we are soooo happy that she is in good health and in the same condition as when she went.
Again a whopping THANK YOU ALL for everything said and thought by all, it really is very much appreciated.
Kind regards and my very best wishes
Andy & Family