My little Walter is back :-)

I could help but feel sad when I looked at his empty corral as I turned the corner to come home.  I am so used to seeing him there all the time.  This was around 3:45 p.m.

This afternoon at 7:00 p.m. I went to close the main gate and as I turned to look toward his corral...I SAW WALTER!!!   I was so happy I forgot about the gate and went to see him.  He was calm, his eyes were sad looking and  he was a little thin.  He just stared at me as I petted him and told him how much I had missed him.

I looked around and noted that the two horse trailers had not been moved, his owner's truck was not there...so who brought him home?  I did not even see the kid or his brother around and there was no car in the driveway.

Oh well...it does not matter, at least he is back home!  I went to bring him a gallon of water but he only drank 1/2 of it and did not seem very thirsty.  However he sure yawned a lot.  I let him be as it was still daylight and I did not want to be seen watering him.

I noted that he  had snot coming out of his left nostril, he looked dirtier than usual and his hind hoof still seem to be bothering him...so he obviously was not taken to the vet.

As I was watering mother's trees I heard noise by his corral but since it was dark could not make out who it was.  After making sure no one was around anymore...I went to look and someone had given him some horse pellets...yep, in that same dirty ice chest!

 I left so he could eat and came back later with some more water but by this time he seemed more agitated and he kept on looking toward where his hay was.  He drank less than half a gallon and went back to looking at the hay stack and moving his head from side to side.

Thank you for visiting Walter's World.