United at last. What God has joined together, man must not separate. The dream team Lotte and her dad Ingo. In a very solemn act on time at midnight for his birthday, Ingo was given Lotte. Lotte was made pretty for over an hour by many little and big hands, with purple glitter on her legs and tiny hooves, and a biiig golden bow around her neck.

The story of Lotte – sorry, Elise vom Giltengrund is her real name

Nickname Lieselotte, was unceremoniously shortened by Ingo to Lotte. They met in October 2020. You have to imagine, two opposite corners of a large barn and Lotte immediately ran up to him and docked. But we were not there for her at all, but for her mother, who was supposed to come to us as a child pony. The condition for the dam pony mare was that we take her and the foal because it was too early to wean.

And so it went on with the two of them, Ingo and Lotte. Since Lotte has been with us, the two are inseparable and she always flits to him. And so she stayed with us, actually she was supposed to go on. But as it is among lovers. Lotte, by the way, went into the house for the handover with just a bit of resistance, she was a bit spooked and slippery under the little hooves.

Lotte is of course also part of the Flütjerhof program, for horse cuddling and mindfulness with horses or ponies. On the farm or during a walk or in our pastures. To be honest, she’s also hard to get rid of her.

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Mrs Darceys is a 5 year old, about 1 meter tall, brown piebald Shetland mare. Besides cuddling, scratching and grabbing treats from the bag, Mrs Darcey does guided horseback riding with small children, who are there regularly and help with everything. In addition, we have hitched tires behind her and even had her in front of the carriage.

So that Mrs Darceys doesn’t remain alone among the big horses, we looked for a friend. It took a long time, but now Marcys – called Mimi – and her daughter Elisa vom Giltengrund are her TWO new friends.

Since Elisa’s nickname is Lieselotte, Ingo pragmatically made it Lotte 🙂 – now we call the little pompom ball Lotte, affectionately sometimes Lotti.

We are very happy about the expansion of our animal family 🙂 – Being curious? They look forward to crawl units!

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23 years ago, at 3 a.m., the call came. I still remember how yesterday I woke up from my sleep and called: The foal is coming! I pulled you out of your egg shell, cut your umbilical cord. For two weeks one of the ears was like a lettuce leaf, I was afraid it would stay that way. You’re just as greedy as normal movement-optimized that you shot through the undergrowth with me yesterday like your slightly crazy mother did back then, wow!

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But things don’t always work out the way you want and imagine. Same here. There were two really unpleasant experiences that made me realize that she can’t be my “soul horse”. So I looked for a new “job” for her as a companion horse.

And luck was on my side again: I found a young woman who wanted exactly her as a companion horse for her own mare. So the two searched and found each other, and as we had hoped, both bays were immediately a “pot with a lid”.

The worries and fears I had vanished with the videos and photos I received.

It’s so nice to see how the two get along. A dream. Have a great next life, lovely Quinie.

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