You can lead a horse to water...

[crosslet]

You can lead a horse to water but you can't make him drink

Corollary:

You can give a baby a bottle, but that doesn't mean he's going to drink.

Lessons I've learned from Gaelan and Julian.

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Physically Impossible

[crosslet]

Actually that's one thing that can't happen. Horses don't vomit. Its one of the reason's they colic very easily. But it would be a visual. Now if Gaelen was a cow...

G and I had a good ride today. Still walking and a little trotting. And we had fun with the horse eating, blue tarp of death. But he felt let himself today.

bottles

[ghislaine]

Drew and Alex never cooperated with the bottle idea either. We had to use them for the first 7 weeks (had to supplement), but gawd it was a struggle every time to get them to agree to take it :( I was SO relieved when my milk supply and their nursing skill finally reached the point where we could say bye bye to formula that we didn't touch a bottle for a few months.

When we tried to reintroduce them (with my own milk, of course) they were unimpressed. Luckily we never found ourselves in a situation where I was unavailable to nurse them, but I always worried about that and their refusal to take a bottle. My pumped milk ended up going to Dbang (for Colton) and to a batch of soap rosa made. :)

[rdhdsnippet]

We feel your pain.

Well, except for the horse thing. Though are cats are kinda big...