It's only Wednesday and I feel like I've been working in horses for over a month. I have NO CLUE how the staff does this all year round! It is beyond impressive. Today, it was my turn to go with Alice on the feed runs. Alice is the Head Feeder, meaning she's in charge of knowing what everyone gets to eat. These horses eat like champs! Some horses get flax seeds, sunflower seeds, papaya, and a bunch of different oils and supplements. Every horse has such a specific diet, and Alice knows them all! All of the horses get exactly what they need because they have such an amazing, caring, wonderful staff to take care of them!
In addition to the feeding runs, I did LOTS of heavy lifting today! I moved hay bales upwards of 75 lbs and I helped Alice restock all of the feeds and pellets. It was a tough day! But even though it was a tough day, I still got a chance to takes some pictures!
From left to right: this is Fiona, Blaze, and Buddy enjoying their morning meals!
This is Uno and Red enjoying an afternoon dip.
Here's Uno and Daisy, getting very excited for their afternoon feeding!
It's not a very good picture, but these are two mini horses. The one in the front is Luna and the one behind her is Trixie. They're goofy little buddies!
These are the only two sheep at the sanctuary: Buddy & Lambert!
I'm blanking on this sweet goat's name right now!!! Isn't he/she so cute?!
LOL. This is a funny picture of Joseph. It got kind of blurry, but yes, that is his tongue sticking out of the side of his mouth!
I would write more if I wasn't so tired. It's only 6:00 in Utah, and I'm just about ready for bed! Today was another great, informative day, and I got a chance to work with another awesome staff member, Alice. As grueling as the work is down at Horses, the people I've been working with have been delightful. It truly does make a difference! They have a great philosophy at horses... If the people are laid back and calm, then the animals will follow their lead. Their philosophy is wildly successful! Everybody with two and four legs seems to be pretty happy... They're doing something (a lot of things) right!
Meg, how many people are caring for how many animals at Best Friends? I just can't wrap my brain around how big this place must be. Do they have interns like yourself all year round?
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Colleen
There's at least 400 people caring for about 1,700 animals at the sanctuary right now! This place is humongous!!! And yes, I'm pretty sure they have interns all year round.
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