Sweden´s animal life
I could hardly tell more about animals that crossed my way than by telling stories of beloved Sverige! In the following I will try to give a description of the animals that accompanied us within Sweden:
Horses: In my opinion the most fascinating and beautiful domesticated animals on this planet ;-) During my very first visit to Sweden – I learned to know the Karlsson`s Shetland Ponies – the Pony mother Blanda with her foals: Pontus, Rasmus, Hubert and Freddy - every year there was a new baby pony and every time we left the paddock, one small excited Shetland foal snickered after us. It was always a great welcome back ceremony, when we returned from riding out in the forests. ;-) When we girls grew up, the Shetland Ponies became Fjord Ponies, but the procedure remains the same!
Animal Babys: Every year we visited our friends in Sweden, we were welcomed by lots of different animal babies, cats, 100 pink and squeaking piglets and one year even a lost little calf called Bambi ;-)
To one of those small cats, his name was PJ, I had a special relationship – one day, we were sitting in the grass, right in the shadow of a tree – after an exhausting working day out in the fields of the farm – and PJ and me were sharing ice cream with each other! ;-)
Mooses: Everybody who has ever been to Sweden knows its large admired but also hunted King of the Forest, and even people who had never been there, associate Sweden with mooses! Over the years, we experienced a lot of funny but also daunting encounters with those legendary creatures. Every year we go to Halleberg, a nature reserve near Trollhättan, in order to see an älg! But unfortunately we see them much more often – crossing the street right in front of our car, than at our walks through the forests of Halleberg.
Animal Counting : Over the years, my family introduced some kind of game! Everytime we drive the way from Gällenäs where our friends live, to our house, an about 15 km winding drive through the forest, all of us estimate the number of animals we will see on our way. And there is almost no evening, where you can´t see at least one: rabbits, foxes, deers or even mooses ;-)
Some years, we have a habitant of the surrounding forest , visiting us almost every day: One year it was a cute small sqirrel, called Emil, another year a young fox almost ate of our hands and last year we had a big hedgehog as a steady companion.
The craziest thing we ever saw, was a camel right in the middle of a crowd of cows, browsing at a paddock next to the highway!
Can´t tell everything that come to my mind, but what I can say to describe the place we lived for several years, is:
It is place where fox and rabbit say ‘good night’ to each other ;-)
