Thanks for the update arabhorse. Kooki – glad your fence is fixed, and please keep us updated if she turns up again – stick in hand (your hand, not hers :winkgrin:).
Wow, folks! Everytime I leave this and come back there’s another ten pages to read!
I didn’t get much sleep last night becuase every 30-45 mins the phone rang. Ick. No-one speaking, of course, and the number was hidden, but I have a feeling who it was… After three hours, I gave up and unplugged the phone.
Gran has spent most of the day at the hospital with her husband. He’s worse 
No-one can get in touch with the little darlin’s mother. The child’s social worker was sacked (don’t know what for) and never passed her case on, so she didn’t get a new caseworker.
Horses are still in the back pasture out of the way. I don’t trust her not to come back and try something else. While she can still get to them, the fence is post and rail, and the gate is very heavy 
(Short of climbing over, and zapping herself on the hotwire my lovely SO installed today, there’s not a lot she can do.)
What else? Oh, I had a wonderful cheese sandwich today for lunch!
Thank you, thank you, Mod1!!!
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Yay Kookicat!!! good for you for unplugging the phone… I too bet it was the young “lady”.
I missed a lot last night/today, went to bed early!
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The fun never stops here…Do you suppose that ‘castrated’ is lurking? 'Cause he is just so into making sure that this “little angel” isn’t mistreated with descriptive words and such…
Oh, and if everyone reads equinelaws recent posts, she gives some very good advice… you know, only if you are into finding/searching for stuff on google that was cached 
Ahem… cough…cough…
No-one speaking, of course, and the number was hidden, but I have a feeling who it was… After three hours, I gave up and unplugged the phone.
Hee - my first thought wasn’t that it was the brat, but then I remembered you’re in England. :lol:
Do you have call-blocking? Might be worthwhile to use it if available.
Ugh. I’m so sorry you’re still having trouble with this little (insert choice word here). And I’m sorry Gran and Gramps are having so many assorted problems.
I hope the hot wire will be enough to discourage her. It might be time for Rent-a-Rottweiler. And a padlock for the gate.
Wow KC - sorry that she still feels the need to “attack” you - we all know it was her of course!
Please tell Gran that she has a whole board of people wishing her well and hoping that her husband, by the grace of god, takes a turn for the better. If husband actually makes it out of the hospital, I hope she sticks the little “princess” on a bus bound for Saskatchewan(sp??):lol: The last thing he will need is any more stress. You know what Gran doesn’t need this right now either, I say we all pitch in and send a $1 to KC and buy this brat a one way ticket out of there.:yes:
OK, on a serious note, that kid should have learned something by now. She has not. If she called last night there is something VERY wrong with her. Very VERY wrong. RED FLAGS all around.
She might be far more dangerous then we thought. Even if Gran was gone at the hospital and even if the kid was alone and scared, no even remotely normal child would keep bothering you at this point.
She is 12. She’ll figure out many many ways to hurt the horses or you --electric fence or not.
Something has to be done about that kid. She needs help and if that can’t happen she needs to be in a lock down to learn how to behave.
The only thing worse then a 12 year old sociopath is a 13-18 year old one.
I quiver in horror at the thought, but I’d rather take the kid in myself then have her free ranging and out of control. At least she can be watched that way.
I really think I was a pretty evil youngster myself, but after so many run ins and consequneces I would never have kept up the harrasment of an adult at this point.
It may be a cry for. . . and I am serious. . help. She may see you as the only strong adult model in your world. If social services can’t or wont help, you may need to help her just out of self defense?
I’ll see your $1 and raise you $9, just so Kookicat can send that kid farther away- Antarctica, maybe?
Much as I hate to say it, I actually am feeling bad for this girl today.
I suspect she is scared sh:eek:less. If grandpa is really ill, grandma will likely not be able to keep her. Mom is awol-ish. No dad, and she couldn’t even catch a break with a decent case worker.
How long has she been at G&G’s? If she’s been there all summer, and it was going OK until grandpa got ill, I think her acting out has alot to do with being scared of what’s next.
It is easy as adults, or even young people watching from afar to recognize the irony that if she behaved well, she could likely stay at Grandma’s, but bad behavior may send her out of the frying pan into the fire.
KC, this is just so much like a teen novel that it is hard not to think that karma has dropped this girl in your lap. Of course, happy endings are easier in Kansas. And I am not naive enough to think that she must be some kind of diamond in the rough --she may just be a little bugger, and no help for it.
Keep us all posted!!
Wow. I spend three hours with the farrier and my horses, and look what happens.
Our benevolent Mod 1 waves her magic wand (in keeping with the Wizard of Oz/Cinderella theme), and makes the bad troll go away. Thank you! Thank you! (I am sorry I was a bad girl…)
Kookicat checks in, and unfortunately, is still having to deal with cr@p.
Can the police put a trace on the calls? (or at least a block?)
That’s too bad about grandpa. Poor Gran. And a pox upon that child’s mother:mad: Fie! Fie!
p.s. too add–I think equinelaw is correct about the child having very serious issues. I would be very concerned about her. However, I do not think it is Kookicat’s problem to deal with , in any way, shape or form. This preteen needs more than a helping hand, she needs some serious therapy with the help of psychiatric professionals.
I agree with at least alerting the police, if only for more documentation.
I’m sorry to say, it sounds like this kid is going to need legal intervention in the not-too-distant future.
As others have said, any run of the mill bratty kid would have backed off by now, or at least moved on to another target. Watch your back. And your horses.
If it’s not feasible to buy her a ticket to another continent, I’d donate to a fund for your wildlife camera!
Too heck with the pox – I say mandatory sterilization is in order here. Gads, imagine what if little Hellgirl has siblings???
Holy…
Holy Thread Batman!
I made the unholy mistake of checking into this discussion late…SO I have gotten dirty looks from my boss today as I spent entirely too much time behind my computer screen rabidly reading and trying to contain my laughter instead of behind my microscope…oops!
KC, you are quite the soul to handle all this as well as you did. Wish the reality of this girls situation and how it impacts your life and the lives of her grandparents wasn’t so bleak!
I can only hope that there comes a time in this girl’s life where she might look back on this time and realize that she caused her grandparents so much uneccesary drama when they had so much on thier plates already!
Glad to finally be caught up…wish I had not missed some of the, ahem, edited drama :winkgrin:
Yes, incarceration gives one much time to ponder regrets. . . .
Oh my gosh…
Wow, I’m a little stunned here right now. Gran has decided that she can’t cope with child any more. Dave has offered to foster her- his oldest boy is adopted. I’m a little out of the loop, but I think child is getting a new caseworker tomorrow, and Gran is going to indicate that she wants Dave’s family to take her.
I’m not sure on the legal aspects, but what a super nice thing to do. My gosh, he’s a wonderful man. A wonderful family actually. God bless them!
WOW.
That’s incredible. I must say, that’s beyond generous of neighbor Dave. Hopefully, with stability, and a new case worker (who can get her into some serious therapy), she will make a turnaround.
Not to rain on any parade…but, this means she moves in next door. And stays for a while.
Up the voltage on your fence.
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Oh my gosh…
Wow, I’m a little stunned here right now. Gran has decided that she can’t cope with child any more. Dave has offered to foster her- his oldest boy is adopted. I’m a little out of the loop, but I think child is getting a new caseworker tomorrow, and Gran is going to indicate that she wants Dave’s family to take her.
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Just Wow. I hope the case worker is a good one because Artful is right, however storybook it is, she/they will likely be better off with professional help. Did you actually print this and show it to Dave?? Gosh, I hope we didn’t knight him. —so… this will make her your neighbor?
You will need to mend proverbial fences fast and establish a truce if you want any peace with this kid around.
Here’s hoping things go well!
Oh my… Dave is a very generous, kind man. He’s seen her in action, so he has some idea of what he is offering.
Best of luck to all involved, including Gramps.
