Blummin ungrateful horse!!

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Just a ranty post!!

My horse is an ungrateful cow bag :mad: She has recently decided that coming in for her dinner is something she is not pleased with as it means leaving her friends in the field. She started off by taking forever to eat as she'd take s mouthful, run to the door and neigh, go take a mouthful and so on. Then she would ignore her feed for a while and stand at the door kicking, weaving and shouting but would eventually go eat her dinner when she realised I was ignoring her idiotic behavior. Yesterday I put her feed in and she promptly stamped on the side of her bucket, sending it flying and her feed scattering all over her bed! :mad: So I thought, "fine, go without your dinner!" and turned her back out. This evening she did exactly the same thing!! So I have decided she can go without feed from now on, she won't starve as she's out 24/7 in a big field and plenty of grass. She only gets a feed as I put her garlic in it and it helps to stop her getting bitten to death by flies and midges but if she's going to be a brat then she can get bitten! Wench ...
 
If the only reason you feed is for garlic then I would forget the feed and just use a fly spray.

It is infuriating when they won't eat so I would only push it if they really need s suppliment or feed for weight.
 
Kat, thats what I've decided to do, no point in faffing with her if all shes gonna do is be a numpty :rolleyes:

I have no idea why we bother, all they do is chuck it back in our faces!! :D

(I do love her really ... Sometimes ..)
 
I don't recall gratitude being part of the deal - we pander to their every need, wait on them hand and foot, clean up their poo, keep them shiny and clean, leave no stone unturned in seeking their every comfort and top class health. Who said they had to be GRATEFUL????
(On a slightly more serious note, how about you rewrite that account from HER point of view?)
 
Haha :D hmm her point of view .. I'm sure she'd be far too busy scoffing her face in the field with her mates to bother with typing out her version of the apparently very stressful situation ..
 
Couldn't just read and run.

This really did make me LOL.

Even non-horsey hubby was laughing. Hope she starts behaving like a lady soon :)
 
It makes me laugh now but at the time I was rather annoyed! Put her back out and she went flat out broncing across the field, you'd have thought she'd been in for 5 months not 5 minutes!!!

She's moving to a new (well, old, we've been there before) yard next weekend where she will be in at night so hopefully she'll be less feral!
 
Well, she obviously doesn't need any feed (and garlic is useless for fly repelling), so why not just put on a fly sheet, spray and leave her to it?
 
Today the little thing that walks on two legs (if it had 4 then maybe it wouldn't need to sit on my back to get around) came and rudely disrupted the lovely time I was having with my friends. In fairness it is quite good at ear scratching and if I go along with with its silly rituals I get given these lovely round white things but why on earth they are so small is beyond me. it insists on putting me in the box and locking me in there to eat food! It's bizarre there is food with my friends so why on earth I need to be manhandled in such an appalling way is just ridiculous. Of course to entertain it (in the hope of getting more yummy white things) I eat the food would be silly not to but not without expressing my opinion on the matter. To top it all off it then ignores me so I kicked the food in frustration at not being listened to! This got the result I was looking for and it put me back with my friends tonight I wasn't put through the eating in the box situation so I am assuming that the kicking of the food is a way to stop this atrocity.
 
AmiRobertson said:
To top it all off it then ignores me so I kicked the food in frustration at not being listened to! This got the result I was looking for and it put me back with my friends tonight I wasn't put through the eating in the box situation so I am assuming that the kicking of the food is a way to stop this atrocity.
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This made me giggle.

There's no pleasing my youngster at the moment, he drags behind me all the way down the field coming in, digs up his bed in disgust at the lack of a huge haynet, eats his feed get rug change/brush/fly spray as applicable and then plants when I try to get him back out of his stable. Doesn't want to come in but doesn't want to go back out either!

I'm beginning to think he may be a cat.....
 
Cortez, I was giving her feed to be nice basically! Obviously she doesnt care for my generosity so she can have it her way, I will leave her be :)

Amirobertson, thats hilarious :D I'm sure thats exactly what she'd be thinking :)

Rachyblue, he's definitely a cat. Take him to battersea and get a better one :p
 
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