10 year old Boy Trampled

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10 year old boy trampled by horses on Boxmoor Common

These horses are there at this time every year and are so sweet and so docile. It is a herd of cob mares that are in foal or have foals at foot. I keep meaning to go down there and take lots of piccies!
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They are very friendly mares and I find it very hard to believe that they would have done it without being goaded.
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Our neighbours had a nice donkey, rather docile, we could go and groom it and lead it about when we were little...........then some wifey came down going mental saying it was a wild beast that should be shot as it had broken her sons elbow by attacking him.

Was totally the fault of the donkey tho.............I mean it should have just stood there whilst her son and his mates threw stick and stones and bricks at it........................
 
Unfortunately the article is not displaying. from what I can gather though, it sounds as if the lad did something, maybe approached a new born foal or similar?
 
The artivle sasy that the horse were being given apples, but appear to have been statled when some children started singing and clapping.
So in all innocence by the soudn of it.
 
most horses/ponies get a bit restless if you start feeding a group of them, i guess they were fighting over food and he was just in the way. Silly to let a 10 yr old do it tbh!
 
I'm pretty sure that there are "please dont feed the horses" signs on all the gates into the fields too. He is out of hosp now and recovering.

It just all seems a bit strange to me.
 
Singing and clapping? Maybe that would set them off. This article reminded me of something that happened the other day: I went to the New Forest with my family for a picnic, and a mare and foal approached us. The foal looked really young, not more than a couple of weeks old, but was very tame and friendly and the mare didn't seem at all bothered by people being near him. We were watching him and aww-ing, as you do, then he came towards us and we stroked him because the mare didn't seem to mind.

Then these two little girls came over - I'd say the older one was about 6, and the younger one 2 or 3 years old. They were stroking the foal too, and running around it, running up behind the mare and all sorts while we stood there cringing and waiting for one of them to get kicked, and their mum was just sitting there on her picnic blanket not paying any attention whatsoever. We tried to warn the little girls that they might get hurt, but they didn't listen to us and we decided to just let their mum deal with it. But then she turned away and started reading a book - she wasn't paying any attention to her children at all, and they were still running around playing with this foal.

By this time more people had gathered to see the ponies, and the mare was starting to get a bit edgy so we backed off - but the little girls still wouldn't leave her alone. She started laying her ears back and pulling faces, but they just backed off a bit and then started again straight away. The tiny toddler was even throwing twigs at the foal! It was unbelieveable. Finally, the mare actually charged at them and chased them away, at which point they got scared and went back to their mum, and the mare took her foal away for some peace and quiet.

I was horrified by the completely disinterested attitude of the mum - she obviously either didn't realise or didn't care that the animal her children were irritating was a comparitively massive creature perfectly capable of breaking their ribs, or even killing them, if she got angry enough. It was absolutely horrible to watch. I was really amazed by the laid-back attitude of the mare - if she hadn't been so friendly and trusting, things could have gone very badly for those little tots.

Sorry, that was much longer than I expected. Went off on a bit of a rant there... :s
 
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