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Sandy Hinners is careful to let all three of her golden retrievers, Emma, Lacy and Samantha, feel loved and at home. In turn, they keep her
company while her husband works in Alaska.
she thrives on the contrast between her
cyber work and her home environment,
where she provides shaded shelter in an annex
next to a barn for Zeus, her 9-year-old
mustang, whom she describes as a “repo”
horse from Casa Grande, and Rio, a paint.
Both are geldings, and Zeus is the larger of
the two. “He’s also the boss,” Worley said.
Horses drink a lot of water, especially
in Arizona in the summer, and the two
account for more than 50 gallons a week,
supplied from a well on Worley’s property.
She also chooses to feed Zeus and
Rio with $10-a-bale Bermuda, rather than
the cheaper alfalfa hay. “Horse are natural
grass-grazers,” Worley says, “and a friend
and I are able to combine our purchases and
get a good deal from a local farmer, so I can
handle the extra cost.”
Zeus and Rio also have access, from behind
the sturdy vinyl fence that surrounds
their corral, to a turnout arena, where they
can exercise at will, night or day. The cats —
Cali, T.C., Liona and Skylar — mainly play
and sleep in the crawl space under Worley’s
house. Her dogs, Duke, a Labrador/chow
mix she “inherited” from neighbors, and
Shortness, a female beagle/terrier mix, are
usually inside when company visits.
All of Worley’s animals have been
spayed or neutered.
Worley favors what she calls “natural
horsemanship,” and so likes to ride Zeus
bareback while walking or trotting. “A few
of us horse owners get together occasionally
at a neighbor’s place for barrel-racing,” she
says. One other neighbor keeps more than
12 horses on her place.
Worley also loads her animals into their
trailer and goes camping during the summer
at a place near Prescott designed for
people whose families include four-legged
creatures. “We have lots of fun, and they
seem to know where we’re headed when we
start out,” she says.
A self-described “recovering” city girl,
Photo courtesy of Wikipedia
PRESIDENTIAL PET
(HOLY COW!)
President William Howard Taft, an
Ohio native, brought his pet Holstein,
Pauline, to Washington, D.C. when he
took office in 1909, allowing the bovine
beauty to graze leisurely on the lawn
of the Navy Department Building,
now the Eisenhower Executive Office
Building, adjacent to the White House.
Taft wasn’t the first chief
executive to have cows around the
executive mansion; William Henry
Harrison (1841) and Rutherford B.
Hayes (1877-1881) did so as well.
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