B***** Horse.... a light hearted rant

[Angua2]

Why is it when you get the vet out because your horse is doing a good impression of a dying swan they make you out to be a prize plonker?

Yep this is what my "creature" did to me.

She had managed to tweak her stifles in the field and after unusually playing up for the farrier, and coming up from the feild on 3 legs I put her (on the advice of the vet) on Bute and box rest with the vet coming out today. Creature was determined to make me aware that she was suffering "great pain" during her week of box rest.

Today the vet came and "creature" said "Lame.... who's lame" and trotted up sound before and after flexion tests in between dragging me all over the blinking yard. Vet gave a wry smile and said get her back into work.

Said creature then prances out of the yard and once everyones back is turned takes off down to the summer turn out reminding me that she is after all an "ex racehorse". ..... would she be caught?... yes actually she would, would she walk to her field nicely? Would she hell!! Twice I caught her, twice I lost her.... 15 minutes of chasing her around the fields in my work clothes does not make for a happy owner!

The "invalid" is now in her field after making me out to be a total liar and charlatan.


*Sigh*

Don't you just love 'em

 

[ThePony]

and who says they don't have a sense of humor!!!

 

[horsecrazy25]

Awwww bless, sounds as if you had great fun. x

 

[micramadam]

Look on the bright side. She's no longer lame so no huge vet bills!

 

[MrsMozart]

Lol, yup, y;really have to love them

Glad she is okay, even if a monkey

 

[Hovis_and_SidsMum]

Kind of reminds me of my long conversation with my new YO about how scared Hovis is of tractors. Snorting, shaking, trembling, sweating and generally general terror abounds when he sees them. I describe this at length to my lovely YO who offers to bring one of the farm tractors down to help "desensitise" Hovis to the mighty machines.
Cue the tractor turning up, me equipped with hat and gloves, Hovis on a lunge line plus leadrope, me braced ready for the hysterics.......... and nothing happened. He stood calmly eating treats off the tractor tyres and managed to make me look like a total prat.
I could have killed him...........

 

[Angua2]

Yep she has definatly got a sense of humour, the chestnut baggage. I have to say although I feel a bit of a fool in front of the vet at least I know my dying swan is not such a dying swan.

I am 100% sure she is now in her field doing silly happy dances telling her pals how she got one over the human.

Mrs M.... a monkey doesn't even start to describe this young lady.

However, I am sitting here at work with a silly relived smile on my face.... and for no other reason than I do not have a cripple on my hands help your selves to virtual chocolate cake (one of those tray bake thingis), jelly tots, m&M's and I am sure there is some fizzy stuff somewhere

 

[Fransurrey]

lol! Are you sure she simply hasn't got a bute addiction and this is her way of getting a fix?

 

[Angua2]

lol! Are you sure she simply hasn't got a bute addiction and this is her way of getting a fix?

LOL you may be right..... unfortunatly, although I work for a painkiller manufacturer, bute isn't on the list of products.

it is either that or she saw what the weather forecast was like and wanted to make sure that she was in when liquid fell from the sky

 

[Aoibhin]

I can just imagine her gassbagging to all her mates about getting one over on "mum" little s*d, she is slowly turning into the bay footfoul one for vet callouts.

OOH & i got a chesnut to play wilth too

 

[bathmat]

If your horse was a cat he would be from cheshire!