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10-20-01
Saturday morning dawned and the new arrivals from California seemed to be settling
in. The Utah volunteers arrived and we took the three California and three Utah
horses out into a pasture for a walk and to get familiar with each other.
A dog charged the fence as Janet was leading Yogi past some construction materials and
he broke free and managed to find himself in the midst Janet's personal "herd." The herd
wasn't too happy to have such a sudden visitor and Yogi seemed genuinely
happy to be rescued by Janet.
The Utah group put together a barbecue lunch. While we were eating we let the
burros loose to wander the place. They earlier had been nicely groomed so naturally they
immediately proceeded to paw out a dust bowl and take dust baths. Herbie played
with Fancy and taught her to honk the bicycle horn.
After lunch we put Yogi in the "human round pen" where we surrounded him with
people. He appeared to deal with all the humans in his space very reasonably.
Janet demonstrated some "cloverleaf" drills with Frosty. Various volunteers
spent some close-up and personal time with the animals and before we knew it,
the day was over.
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