AGAGE
Well-Known Member
I'm sure my old boy was deliberately trying to wind me up yesterday.
I decided that as it was so nice and warm I would give him a bath. I spent the best part of an hour scrubbing him from top to toe, as it was his first bath of the year and he was very dirty. He looked lovely and was very well behaved, and stood still the whole time.
Once I had finished washing him, I thought I'd let him have dinner loose on the yard, to dry off, as he gets impatient and pulls back and breaks the baler twine if left to dry tied up and there's only him and sisters horse at yard.
Ted had other ideas! He stormed into his stable and tried to roll, but realised it perhaps wasn't the dirtiest place to roll and galloped flat out into the field- stupid me had forgot to shut the field gate. I have never seen him move so fast. He dropped to the floor and rolled for ages before galloping back onto the yard for the rest of his dinner.
I then washed him again ,whilst he was eating his dinner as he was caked in mud. Once he was clean for the second time, he then rolled in the mud patch on the yard, and then refused to let me catch him, trotting around the yard and striking out his front leg- stallion style but not at me just as he was parading round!
By this point I had given up on the idea of getting him clean and left him covered in mud, and bribed him in with carrots! I just can't believe the cheek of him. He's been up to all sorts since he was put on Danilon, for his arthritis.
I decided that as it was so nice and warm I would give him a bath. I spent the best part of an hour scrubbing him from top to toe, as it was his first bath of the year and he was very dirty. He looked lovely and was very well behaved, and stood still the whole time.
Once I had finished washing him, I thought I'd let him have dinner loose on the yard, to dry off, as he gets impatient and pulls back and breaks the baler twine if left to dry tied up and there's only him and sisters horse at yard.
Ted had other ideas! He stormed into his stable and tried to roll, but realised it perhaps wasn't the dirtiest place to roll and galloped flat out into the field- stupid me had forgot to shut the field gate. I have never seen him move so fast. He dropped to the floor and rolled for ages before galloping back onto the yard for the rest of his dinner.
I then washed him again ,whilst he was eating his dinner as he was caked in mud. Once he was clean for the second time, he then rolled in the mud patch on the yard, and then refused to let me catch him, trotting around the yard and striking out his front leg- stallion style but not at me just as he was parading round!
By this point I had given up on the idea of getting him clean and left him covered in mud, and bribed him in with carrots! I just can't believe the cheek of him. He's been up to all sorts since he was put on Danilon, for his arthritis.
