Mike Mule is Missing!

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Mike Mule walked off the farm today. Neighbors to our north spotted him heading back our way. I can't find tracks anywhere, and I'm good at that. We've spent the entire day looking for him and calling with no luck. Please pray, send energy, whatever you do when you want something good to happen -- if he isn't hit by a car on the highway, he may be caught and sold for meat.

-- helen (home@the.farm), July 08, 2000

Answers

I hope that he returns safely soon!

If not, I'll contact the Animal Planet producers and have them send you one of those tracking dogs. I saw a show not long ago where this woman in California had trained her dog to track lost cats. I'll bet that a mule might be easier!

Good luck!

-- (kb8um8@yahoo.com), July 09, 2000.


Helen, we are praying for his safe and quick return. Keep us posted as to his status, ok?

-- (sis@home.zzz), July 09, 2000.

What does he look like? I'll watch for him on the Parkway.

-- kritter (kritter@adelphia.net), July 09, 2000.

kritter, I'll send you a photo of my mother-in-law. This will undoubtedly let you make a positive identification, should you happen upon Mike from the rear.

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-- Lon Frank (lgal@exp.net), July 09, 2000.


Mike, come back! come back!

-- Brooks (brooksbie@hotmail.com), July 09, 2000.


Mike is back! Mike is back! A family coming home from church today found him running down the highway, on a stretch we've gone over and over, and they stopped at the next house, which happened to be a neighbor we had talked to. The family helped the neighbor round him up into her pasture and she came to get us.

Mike was obviously happy to see me, at least he's never come to me at a half-trot before. He was very tired, very dirty, very hot and sweaty, and he had dried salt all over him. I had to walk him home and he stopped dead for every vehicle that went by, so I guess he's had some traffic scares too.

He drank 2 liters of water in about 30 seconds, we gave him a tepid bath, and he had a quiet snack for a couple of hours before we put him to bed. He licked the salt off my arms so we gave him a salt block. I guess he'll know when to stop eating salt.

Thank you so much for the support. The only way I figured I'd ever see him again was if someone on the road hit him. I was worried more about someone getting hurt than I was about getting sued. A sale of everything we own including Edna and Grace wouldn't buy a new pickup, so we figured a lawsuit wouldn't hurt us any. I was so worried about a small car hitting him and the occupants maimed or killed. I was also worried about someone selling him off for meat. Many of our neighbors and friends helped us look, but it was kind strangers who actually got him back to us.

-- helen (home@the.farm.with.Mike), July 09, 2000.


Lon Frankenstien is missing!!!!

Please, oh please try to find him Helen. And when you do, maybe give him a tepid b bath. A A And let me, I mean HIM, lick the s s salt off of your a a a arms. (sigh)

Please hurry, Helen. We all know how lonely dear old Lon Frankenstein has been since Trish left on vacation. He was last seen on the thread about the FRL forum (you know, the one where kritter said you were mean). Look for a kinda green guy with good moves.

Hurry, I say!

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-- Someone (NOT Lon Frankenstien) who is (worried@boutlon.frankenstien), July 10, 2000.


Helen, that is such a relief! And in this blistering hot weather you are having. Is his fur grown back enough that it was ok that he was outside in the sun all day? I'll bet even Edna let's him know she is glad he is home again. Take care!

-- Brooks (brooksbie@hotmail.com), July 10, 2000.

Helen, so glad he is home! Thank goodness that he is safe and alright. I bet he has a whole new appreciation for staying home now. Let's hope! (Did you ever find out how he got out?)

-- (sis@home.zzz), July 10, 2000.

Mule update: He has a bad chip out of one hoof, gotta get the horse man out here to look at it. He's being VERY good for me today. He got loose about 90 feet away from me on Saturday and just walked off without my noticing. And not a track anywhere. And he was found where we were looking repeatedly. We don't know where he was, but his ruby slippers were scuffed when he got back...

How could Lon Frankenstien be missing? I thought parts of him were everywhere. Or was it that parts of him came from everywhere?

-- helen (home@the.farm.temporarily), July 10, 2000.



I'm glad you found Mike!! No wonder he's being so nice to you now, after what must have been a harrowing experience for him. Who knows what he did while he was gone! How he got that chip in his hoof? It might have been a mule nightmare for all we know.

-- kirstena (kritter@adelphia.net), July 10, 2000.

Wonderful, Helen. Glad to hear Mike is back safely. Really, Auntie Em,. There's no place like home. Whether for mule or man.

Pay no attention to Kritter. We all know that mules don't get chipped hooves from nightmares. Obviously, he was sleep-walking and stubbed his hoof.

gene

-- gene (ekbaker@essex1.com), July 10, 2000.


Mike the Mule had a mare in the night?

Woa boy! I didn't think mules swung that way. Ya never know. And what's with the attraction chicks have for guys with long ears, anyway?

Sure wish they felt the same about green skin and guys with bolts in their heads.....

(I'm SO lonely. Hurry home, Trish!)

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-- Lon Frankenstien (evil@twinsR.us), July 11, 2000.


I thought Mike was a missing, not a mule ......

Now I'm all confused.

-- Robert A. Cook, PE (Marietta, GA) (cook.r@csaatl.com), July 11, 2000.


PLEASE tell me I don't have some of the same horrors to face !

Having recently acquired a donkey, this story worries me.

If fact it worries me so much I just went and tied the donkey up-- Lead rope to the fence, LR leg to RF, RR leg to LF, and am thinking about tieing the ears to something- just cant figure out what.

I'm *really* worried. If thier eating mules in OKie land they may sneak down here and grab my donkey. He's young and tender, or at least as tender as donkeys get.

We have a jenny comming in November when she is weanded. She'll be even younger and more tender. Ya gotta watch them OKies. Will be putting on extra guards soon.

Glad to see you got your whole mule back, Helen.

Let us know how he does when he setteles down from his travels. He may have interesting stories. If so, please relay them.

GB and Lil

-- Greybear (greybear@home.,com), July 20, 2000.



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