Shopping for 99

[DJ]

Hope stepped through the sliding doors and headed through the store passed the registers, dog toys, clothing, and straight to the tack section.

She turned to the wall of halters and picked up a teal one for the buckskin, making sure it had a crown piece adjustment, throat snap, and noseband adjustment, creating easy and perfect fit. She kept looking for a unique color for the other two horses, while she let Micheal look for a halter for the stallion.

[Bree]

Micheal stepped quickly into the store going to the rugs. She had to think about some colors for him. Maybe royal purple and yellow or burgundy and yellow. She fingered two rugs that were a combination of both colors. As she looked at the purple she had to remember he was a stallion and she picked up the burgundy and yellow instead. Hoping that the store had a burgundy and yellow in-twined lead rope she felt like jumping for joy when she snatched one up. She nodded as she passed Hope on the way to the halters and picked up a burgundy one that had place for engraving a name plate on it. Smiling she flung it over her shoulder and went into the grooming supplies section picking out a mismatch of yellow and deep red brushes and sponges.

[DJ]

"Nice buys!" Hope commented at the blanket, lead rope and halter.

She followed Micheal to the brushes after grabbing a lavender halter for the steel grey and a baby blue for the dark colored pony, snatching matching lead ropes for them all.

"Ohh! You may want to grab some fleece pads for his halter, at least until the old wounds heel," Hope suggested remembering seeing gashes, not bloody, but scabbed and dry.

Hope turned the brush racks looking for yellow or wine-colored brushes. "Want this?" she asked, holding up a yellow bristled soft-brush with a leather handle stapled to a wooden back.

[Bree]

"Thank you. That's a good idea."
Micheal took the brush from Hope's hand smiling. She walked off to get a fleece pads. When she returned she was smiling.
"He's going to look like real royalty isn't he?" Not waiting for answer she added quickly.
"What supplements do you need to pick up? I think I'll pick up some special shampoo for skin health. It looked like he had a bit of rain-rot."
It was then she remembered he still hadn't been washed. She debated whether to wash him when they got back or tomorrow.
Probably tomorrow he just needed to eat when they got back.
"Uh, you wouldn't mind if I slept in the barn tonight, would you? I could bunk with Pie and keep an eye on um, the horse."
She looked hopefully with a smirk on her face.

[DJ]

Hope grinned at the talk of royalty. "I have some half-pads at home, and that should also help his back."

"Oh," Hope replied to the question of Micheal sleeping in the barn. "I'm okay with that." She bit her lip, smiling under it. "Would you mind if I stayed with you?" She didn't mean to ask the question, because she didn't not trust Micheal (double negative meaning she does trust her if you're confused :3), but Hope adored sleeping in the barn and was always up for sleepovers. "It's supposed to get a bit chilly tonight, but there's the lounge, also. It's heated and the couches pull out if we can move the table." She smirked hoping Micheal would be down with it.

Hope followed Micheal to the shampoos. "You have his own sponges, so that's good. Incase of rain rot or other communicable fungi." She looked through the bottles. "Any medicated shampoo would work. I like Mane and Tail, but whatever works. And Vetrolin is also really nice. Not medicated, but it's protein-enriched and has sunscreen, great for his skin."

She went over to the shelves of different supplements. "I can pick these up if you'd like. I usually use these for a bunch of horses and I can just add him into the loop." She copied down the names of some onto a pad of paper so she could ask the cashier for the larger sized, like the 28lb containers.

"Platform Complete Electrolyte, Platform Weight Formula, the Relax Herbal Blend, Platform Hoof Health, Cosequin, Super 14, and Source," she mumbled as she copied the names onto the lined paper. She shoved it back into her pocket and smirked to Micheal, excited to finish shopping.

"Hmm." She gazed aroud the store looking for anything else they'd need.

[Bree]

"I'm sure you do get used to sleeping in the barns. Especially with foaling season. That is unless you have foaling cameras?"
Micheal smiled and walked up to the shampoos picking out Mane & Tail plus a formulated Eqyss spray for all types of different skin ailments. Seeing a cut and scrape salve she picked up that too. And also grabbed a last second buy of Nicker Makers which she placed on the counter.
"Oh, do you have in-feed wormer? I think he may take to that better than the Invermectin kind. At least for a few months anyway. I don't want to upset his stomach."
She looked at Hope as she asked. Maybe I should wait and see what the doctor says.

OOC: I forgot what the pink scrape stuff is called. XD Nicker Makers cracks me up all the time. Delicous stuff. xP

[DJ]

XDD

"Some horses get in-feed. Most get the paste, but I do have a few horses that need the feed-in, so I can do whatever you'd like. I have some at home if you decide on the feed-in."

She smiled. "And I do have a foaling cams, but I like sleeping in the barn anyway."
She laughed and handed the cashier her list of supplements and halters and lead ropes.

[Bree]

"Yes I was thinking it would be better than the paste. Easier on the stomach but I'll wait and see what the vet says."
Micheal smiled and waited for the cashier to ring up her items and paid it with her debit. She felt a surge of excitement flow up her back. She was going to really help this horse.

[DJ]

Hope got her bags and went out to the truck to pull up to the garage so they could load in the supplements.

Hope checked the clock on the dashboard. "If we're both sleeping over, it's only 4:30 now and we should have time to bathe him tonight if you're interested," knowing she would be. "It'll make him at least a bit more comfortable."

She smiled and pulled away as they finished with the supplements.

"And away we go."

[Bree]

"Sounds good, if you don't think he will get cold in the evening air."
She helped Hope load all the new items into the room and took the tobiano's new items to the tack room but grabbing the grooming supplies and an old halter to use first before she washed him.
A shiver of happiness washed over her as she began wondering when she would have time to go home to grab some new clothes.