She's pretty. Can't wait to see Cookie's foal. <3
Show Name: Breaking Waves
Barn Name: Oceania
Task List:✓ = Done // ● = In progress // ✗ = Not started
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Introduction Post on Fanclub: Help your new friend make a post introducing themselves to the community!
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Walkthrough of the Rules: Take the time to go through all the Westrossa Mustang rules with your newbie and be sure they understand how they work.
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Introduction to Westrossa Adopts: Help your newbie get acquainted with the way Westrossa comps work, and maybe even help them enter their first one!
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Walkthrough of Policy Regarding Breeding/Slot Permissions and Customs: Be sure your newbie understands how breeding, slot trading, slot permissions, and acquiring customs works!
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Help Create a Stable: Help your newbie figure how stables work, and how to start their own for documenting their mustangs and breeding slots!
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Rescue Horse Rehabilitation: Work together with your newbie to write or a story or produce a piece of art(or both!) about how you cared for and rehabilitated your mare and her foal.
Me and Cookie will be doing alternating paragraphs for our story. Change of perspective will be shown by stars, with me first.
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Sat on the low rock wall by the driveway, I eagerly awaited the arrival of my new mare. We had already discussed her behavioural issues through emails, and I was well aware that she was in foal. But I had something special in mind for the little one. By then I'd checked my messages more than I should. It wasn't too long before the car and trailer pulled up on the drive. After a quick greeting and signing a paper, I was free to unload the mare. I looked through the trailer bars and could see that her ears were constantly pinned back. I could see her green eyes flicker with her untamed fire. We opened the door and it only took moments for her nature to show. The mare charged and bit. The pain made me jump and close the door. She meant business. It was clear she was too dangerous to handle at the moment. After a few tries, I had to call our onsite vet to come and lightly sedate her for safety. She was close to foaling so we decided it would be best to move her into a foaling stall. We didn't want to stress her with training and her new home.
Just over a week passed when she went into foal. Everything went smoothly and she gave birth to a perfect little colt. She was interested in the foal, cleaning him and helping him stand. Soon she stopped paying attention to him. When he finally stood, he didn't take long to make his way to his mother. He went to nurse. The mare had her ear pinned as she sniffed the foal. But she bit him and turned away, rear leg lifted and ready to kick. We put it down to being the new experience, but she repeated this time and time again. Soon we intervened and chased her away, taking the foal out of the stall. The vet checked for injury and found he was fine. We let the foal stand outside the stall where he and the mare could smell each other; they could have some form of interaction safely but she refused. Later we sedated the mare and tried to introduce them again. This time she was distant from her foal. Sometimes she would threaten but she wouldn't harm him. For days we tried to get her to accept him. But she never did.
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