Clever, clever rescued girl!

[Box_Of_Frogs]

Thought I'd put a happy story on the forum. I have a rescued gypsy cob mare whose previous owners left her to starve on a ragwort infested patch of green. We have pulled her back from the brink and she is now of show quality and enjoying life hugely. Comes when called and can melt icebergs with her "come and hug me" look. Anyway, after the hard frost last night the field water trough had frozen over. When she was turned out this morning (after a happy night throwing her water bucket round her stable) she was thirsty so went straight to the trough for a drink. Thick ice on the water so she lifts BOTH front feet up and treads hard into the trough to smash the ice. Steps back out. Surveys her work. Sticks head in for a nicely chilled slurp! Who says cobs aren't intelligent!!!! Anyone interested in hiring her out for next winter on ice-breaking duties, let me know!

 

[YorksG]

She sounds like a clever girl, I think that cobs are full of common sense. Our first horse (a cob) used to break the ice with one front foot and also had an amazing line in killing rats by squashing them flat, we found 3 or 4 in the eight years we had him, we never did find out how he did that.

 

[Natch]

Oh bless her! she can come and do ours where 3 supposedly intelligent welshies haven't figured that one out yet!

have you got a piccy you can post?x

 

[Pedantic]

Brill

 

[spitchwick]

Wonderful, I certainly never said cobs weren't intellegent, in fact far from it, as your lovely mare has showed.

 

[NeilM]

That's lovely.

I'd like to think our New Forests would figure that out too, but they have a couple of humans so well trained that they turn up early in the morning, break all that nasty ice and then remove every bit while their hands turn red and blue. So much nicer than having to do it yourself!