2 year old teaching 27 year old bad habits!

[MrsElle]

Picture the scene.

Torrential rain, very loud thunder and amazing lightening. 2 year old Blue in the rested paddock for half an hour while 27 year old Ellie eats her tea in the current paddock.

Ellie finishes tea and as usual I shout Blue who comes galloping up the field to the gate to be let into the paddock to lick out Ellie's feed bowl. However, as soon as he reached the gate he turned round and galloped back down the field bucking away as he went. To cut a long story short, Ellie slipped into the rested paddock while my back was turned and went trotting after Blue. For some reason my two normally well mannered neds who come to call immediately decided to have a mad ten minutes charging round the field like lunatics - well Blue was charging round like a lunatic with Ellie trotting after him! Could I get the buggers back? Could I heck! By this time I was wringing wet so I left them to it.

I can't believe that they decided to be naughty on the wettest, windiest, stormiest evening in several months!

Don't you just love 'em!!!!

 

[brighteyes]

<font color="blue"> I can't believe that they decided to be naughty on the wettest, windiest, stormiest evening in several months! </font>

You haven't been around horses for long enough!

 

[Puppy]

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I can't believe that they decided to be naughty on the wettest, windiest, stormiest evening in several months!

Don't you just love 'em!!!!

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LOL! That's the joy of horses!

 

[traceyann]

she properly taught him everything she knows and at 27 boy thats a lot at that age there very clever she just making you believe its all his fault the youth of today tut tut she properly grinning from ear to ear behind your back

 

[welshied]

That sounds about right i was out in the middle of winter in terrential rain and it took me 2 hours to catch my yearling and then it got dark si i had to chace him into his stable i was not happy lol

 

[Annagain]

LOL, I had mine causing me a bit of trouble last night in the rain as well! I was late home from work and was going out so was in a major hurry. At the moment the horses are in the hayfields (9 horses in 50 acres!) and they're quite a long walk from the yard, but right down by the main road so as I was in a hurry I grabbed an apple from the fruit bowl and thought I'd just pop in the bottom end of the field from the road (over 1 gate down a little lane for 20 yards then over another) to have a quick check and do a leg count (he's off work at the moment so not being fed).

Normally I call him from the top gate and he comes to me no matter where he is (only at walk though!) Got there and went over the first gate, and as I approached the 2nd gate he was only about 5 yards away ("result" I think, "he could have been miles away") so I called to him gently as he had his back to me. He flung himself round, obviously totally freaked out to have somebody approach him from the "wrong" gate, then realised it was me and calmed down a bit. I called him again thinking I wouldn't have to climb over the soaking wet gate in my going out clothes, but he decided the whole situation was just wrong and went galloping off, taking the other 8 with him.

Cue 20 minutes of hooning about while I just stand there (i had climbed over gate by now in the hope it would make them stop!) waiting for them to finish, getting my good clothes spattered in mud as 9 horses go charging past me in the pouring rain . Normally I would have just said "oh well he's ok" and left but seeing as he's on field rest after being lame since May I wanted to check he was ok AFTER all the galloping about!

So I turned up to meet my friends 20 minutes late and absolutely filthy. Luckily they're used to me getting sabotaged by the horses so don't think anything of it any more - i'm sure the others in the pub weren't quite so understanding though from the looks I got!