Tuesday, October 7, 2014

Lucy Lite

Lucy has been wearing a grazing muzzle for about eight weeks 
to prevent her from overeating, and the results are quite remarkable. 
She's fit and trim, and I'm buckling the girth on her saddle 
in holes we've never used before. 
If she wore jeans, I'd have to buy her new ones in two sizes smaller.


 Me: Don't even think about it, Lucy.
Nothing tastes as good as skinny feels...or so I'm told.



 Her grazing muzzle is on about 20 hours a day. 
I remove it for awhile at breakfast, lunch and dinner so that she can eat freely.



Managing her diet helps me manage mine – all the walking to and from the pasture is adding up.
My Fitbit keeps sending me emails congratulating me on the extra steps I'm taking.



 If Lucy could send me emails, she would probably send death threats – 
she does not like her grazing muzzle –
but she is resigned to wearing it.


Lucy: Crap. Here she comes again.



I'm grateful that Lucy doesn't run away when she sees me approaching with the grazing muzzle.



I'd be even more grateful if she didn't stare a hole in my back as I walked away.



15 comments:

  1. It must be torturous for both of you. She, having to be surrounded by all that lush wonderfulness, and you, having to be the 'enforcer' of the diet.

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  2. I love that donkey!! She's big enough to do exactly as she wants, but her primary goal is to please you.

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  3. Voluptuous is "in" now. Just sayin'.

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  4. She looks great! I need to go find a grazing muzzle for me. I barely remember how skinny feels from my 20's.

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  5. At times, I'll bet you are not her favourite person. :-}

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  6. She looks fab. A nice trim waistline. Incentive for me to do something about mine. Ha! BA SP

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  7. Her face looks so long and slim, how much longer
    will she need the muzzle? I think she will soon reach your goal.

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    1. Probably another month - the grass will die with the first hard freeze, then it will be time to start feeding hay again.

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  8. With three of your stock wearing muzzles, all that feed should last quite a while.

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  9. She does look really good. I remember skinny, about twenty pounds ago.

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  10. She would say she's not "fit and trim," she's wasting away from starvation! She really is an amazing girl for letting you find her three times a day to put the muzzle back on. Maybe it's just light-headedness from lack of food, lol. Do you do the same routine with George's and Alan's masks?

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    1. Alison, my assumption is that George and Alan would run to the next county if I tried to put their muzzles on in the pasture, so I put them on at breakfast, when they're in the barn, then remove them just before it gets dark.

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  11. I'm not sure many souls would stand still for the return of that muzzle 3 times each day. She is a very lovely-natured girl!

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