Did You Know? - When you shop at Moore Equine Feed & Pet Supply you can rest assured that the products you're buying are ones we have researched and sourced with our own pets in mind. Everyone on our staff is an animal lover and has their personal animal support crew at home. From cats, dogs, and horses all the way to chickens and ferrets. In our next few featured "Did you know...?" blogs we will be taking the time to introduce each of our staff members and their furry (and feathered) family members to you.

SLOOPY



Sloopy has two favorite times of day: Breakfast and Dinner. He has never met a bag of grain or jar of cookies he didn’t like. This perhaps makes him not the most discriminating taste tester, but his enthusiasm for the job is unflagging. Oats? Great! Sweet Feed? Better! Pellets? Awesome! (Oh, wait. Pellets have to be soaked or he chokes from bolting them down.) Or, in his opinion, I could skip the grain and move right on to dessert where his tastes run to Mrs. Pastures and Stud Muffins. But really, any cookie will do in a pinch.

He also loves a good grooming and usually falls asleep in the middle of it. He happily will stand for as many grooming product trials as you can come up with. Curries, brushes, sprays and mousse, all good. Just don’t pull his mane, this makes him sad; a fancy trimming comb even makes him wince just a little bit. A soft rubber curry around his ears is the best, he will tilt his head to help you get just the right angle.

Sloopy has retired from product testing riding gear. He feels he has done his part and now hides behind a pine tree if he thinks he sees a saddle. He Sloopy has retired from product testing riding gear. He feels he has done his part and spent three years running in circles around a race track before spending the rest of his career as a Three Day Event horse. Did I mention he was good at this? He traveled the world competing at the biggest events and years later is still one of the highest point earners in the history of the sport in this country. He still likes to run everywhere he goes in his field, but now his belly slows him down just a bit.

Sloopy is a 25 year young Thoroughbred gelding who still lives with his (human) mother.

MAGGIE

Maggie, aka “The Puma” is a beautiful tortoiseshell kitty of indeterminate age. She showed up unexpectedly in my life just when I needed her most and has been a constant playful and affectionate presence in my home for several years. She is a one-person cat however, and visitors send her straight under the sofa where she can spy on them safely. Her most beautiful feature is her extra toes, she has fabulous big mitten paws that leave awesome prints in the snow.

Maggie is an extremely fussy eater, and turns her nose up at most edible offerings. I know if she will eat something, it must be delicious (and probably bad for her). Toys are another story; she loves anything furry, fuzzy or feathery. Fluffy mice are the best, but crinkle foil or yarn puff balls that will skitter across the hardwood and hide behind furniture legs run a close second. When everything is pulled out from under the furniture to the middle of the floor is looks like a kitty Romper Room.

When not playing with toys, Maggie enjoys sitting on the deck, where I can only imagine she feels like she is on a rock outcropping in the Serengeti surveying her domain. I think if she squints her eyes, the horses look like antelope.

ARROW

Arrow is the newest member of our family, we are still getting to know her. Poor Arrow has had a tough start in life: she and her sister were dumped without their mother when they were only five days old. Luckily, they were bottle raised by a foster, but then had to be re-homed and never settled in. Arrow and her sister became lost, separated, and only a skinny, scared, sleek black Arrow showed up under my shed. She is so sweet, and loves to cuddle. Arrow and Maggie are still at odds, but hopefully they will work it out and become fast friends.