Ok. So I’ve been a little lazy this summer and haven’t kept up my blog. It’s been hot and humid, and now hoards of mosquitos are driving both Ziggy and I crazy! Our mistress has kept up sprayed with repellent which keeps most of them away, but then it rains, and the spray washes off and the mosquitos are back again.

Ziggy scratched her eye a few weeks back and has been suffering from mycotic keratitis which only means that the cornea of her eye has a fungal infection accompanied by inflammation. She has been in a lot of pain and wouldn’t allow our mistress to doctor her eye, bobbing her head up and down whenever our mistress tried to medicate it. I kept telling her it was for her own good, but she wouldn’t listen. “It hurts, it hurts,” she kept repeating over and over again. “Well,” I told her, “if you would let our mistress put the medicine in your eye, it would stop hurting. It did when I hurt my eye.” I guess I finally got through to her, because she stopped bobbing her head, making it easier for our mistress to doctor her eye. There is still a big white spot on her cornea, but the eye is slowly healing. And am I glad! Because as long as bright light is painful to Ziggy, our mistress keeps us cooped up in our stalls. I know she gives us plenty of alfalfa and feed, but it just isn’t the same as fresh green grass. And I hate being cooped up!