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I**nitial Thoughts...Northwestern Stables... media type="custom" key="5292705"**

My time at Northwestern Stables has been an interesting experience.While the workload first seemed annoying and the smell of horses was initially nauseating, I soon grew accustomed to both and, soon enough, was enjoying myself. The horses were cool and fun to work with the exception of cleaning up after them.

What I have enjoyed the most about this is the opportunity to be around and care for the horses. However, I would like to interact more with the horses themselves as opposed to washing and painting fence posts that they happen to use. From this experience, I have learned about the many issues that horses have to deal with, even when they are well cared for. I really enjoyed the day when we walked the horse, Toffee, around the outdoor ring. It was both fun to walk the horse, and also sad because she was suffering from arthritis in her knee.



I prefer working at the Kitty Cottage more so than the stables, and not just because it's warm there. Our work with the feline denizens of the cottage, of which there are about 40-50, has been more hands on than the previous month of jump painting. One of our chief jobs there was to play with the cats and help get them accustomed to being around people. I, of course, didn't complain.

I could tell that they needed this kind of help too, as most of the cats that I tried to interact with were pretty timid and shied away from me. It was quite a bit of a contrast to my own very social cat. Another perk of working at the cottage is that,despite being filled to the brim with cats, it didn't smell nearly as bad as I expected it to.