well i had a very crazy summer and it looks like it's going to carry on to the fall as well. I pretty much have four animals. my horse Lonita, my cat Allie, my dog Star and my calf Sable. well this summer Allie suffered from a kick to the jaw thanks to the neighbour, so she can't go outside anymore. she's also a $4000 cat now. my 4-h calf Sable is CRAZY we have to drug her to work with her. now we don't have to do it all the time anymore but she's still crazy. we also discovered that she is deaf in one ear, which explains some of the things that she does but she's still crazy. god help me this weekend when i have to show her at the fair. my horse lonita blew out both her suspensory ligaments this summer which led to the discovery that she has DSLD. so now all we can do is keep her comfortable untill her time comes. well......... i was grooming her today and i took her halter off before we left the cross ties because her stall is right there and lets face it there's no where she can get fast. well i put my hand on the side of her face just behind her jaw and found a nice "ball" for her thyroid gland. so i went and checked some other horses and they didn't have a lump there. so guess what? my horse has an inlarged thyroid gland!!!! whoopy!! not. don't get me wrong I love my horse to death but what else could go wrong?!?!? what did we do to deserve this?? sometimes life just sucks but you just have to keep on slugging along. so If your looking for me I'll be out back sluging along