Boodle
Well-Known Member
Just had to make a nice, light hearted post to hopefully make a few people smile and appreciate their equine friends.
Well yesterday took Bill, horse I ride, out for a nice long 3 hour hack. Aside from awful flies and a few horse eating boulders all was good. Until we got to the home straight.
A BAG. Yes, you got it, a plastic bag was actually rolling down the road toward us.
I accept that is fairly scary, looks abit like a white hedgehog about to come and bite his toesies off. So I expect abit of a spook.
Bag comes closer, Bill stops and peers at it, looking incredible perplexed he roots himself to the spot. Bag rolls closer and closer and we begin a kind of rocking horse display on the spot. With legs going in every direction but we're not actually going anywhere. Bag gets within a metre of us and Bill freezes, cranes his neck and snorts at it, at which it leaps forward and attaches itself to his foot. Literally. Attached.
How? I have no idea.
By now im in stitches and Bill is totally confused. Then begins to strike out with front leg to get it off to absolutely no avail, resorts to nibbling at it, then tries walking.
Anyone want to teach their horse the spanish walk? Attach bags to its feet!
In the end I got off and removed it from his foot, and he seemed somewhat reluctant to leave his new friend. *rolls eyes*. Certainly won't be spooking at bags again I dont think. He now believes them to be close personal friends.
Then today, rode Pally, Bill's boyfriend
. Decided to go up the wood. Now, I'm used to bold little ponies with not a care for what they run over/through/jump. So we were cantering along the track and infront of us was a puddle spanning the width of the path, me not thinking anything of it, urge Pally on and get ready for him to pop over it.
So we're cantering fairly actively up to this thing, about 5 metres infront of it Pally's head goes down and we slip slide to a halt, with me clinging onto his ears, just about still on board. That'll teach me, eh?! In the end he tried trotting in the other direction, but eventually, very cautiously took a flying leap over it!
And finally, this afternoon my normally impecably behaved Boo tried my patience to the max, she's in season and so, instead of being caught decided it would be fun to run around the field with her tail in the air flirting with poor Rocco, my sister's TB. He had absolutely no idea what she wanted him to do, Joey our little Shetland on the other hand, had every clue. There was just the small matter of the rather dramatic height difference. Poor Joey!
Managed to catch Beast Boo after about half an hour and to say I was not impressed was an understatement, luckily she made up for it by untying herself when I was getting her tack, but remained standing there with the end of the leadrope in her mouth, staring at me in the
"Look what I did" way that they have.
Oh I do love horses. Such fun!
Oh and finally, a question...
Pally needs a dummy. He chews on anything and everything he can, almost like hes teething, but hes 11 yrs old! He has had teeth problems before he came to his present owner, but has been checked and has no current problems, he has done this since he came a year and a half ago.
I have lost count of the number of leadropes, reins and general stuff he has wrecked. It's not a huge problem but one i'd like to understand.
Any ideas? Hes a 17hh WB who was imported from Holland in 01.
Thanks in advance.
Well yesterday took Bill, horse I ride, out for a nice long 3 hour hack. Aside from awful flies and a few horse eating boulders all was good. Until we got to the home straight.
A BAG. Yes, you got it, a plastic bag was actually rolling down the road toward us.
I accept that is fairly scary, looks abit like a white hedgehog about to come and bite his toesies off. So I expect abit of a spook.
Bag comes closer, Bill stops and peers at it, looking incredible perplexed he roots himself to the spot. Bag rolls closer and closer and we begin a kind of rocking horse display on the spot. With legs going in every direction but we're not actually going anywhere. Bag gets within a metre of us and Bill freezes, cranes his neck and snorts at it, at which it leaps forward and attaches itself to his foot. Literally. Attached.
How? I have no idea.
By now im in stitches and Bill is totally confused. Then begins to strike out with front leg to get it off to absolutely no avail, resorts to nibbling at it, then tries walking.
Anyone want to teach their horse the spanish walk? Attach bags to its feet!
In the end I got off and removed it from his foot, and he seemed somewhat reluctant to leave his new friend. *rolls eyes*. Certainly won't be spooking at bags again I dont think. He now believes them to be close personal friends.
Then today, rode Pally, Bill's boyfriend
So we're cantering fairly actively up to this thing, about 5 metres infront of it Pally's head goes down and we slip slide to a halt, with me clinging onto his ears, just about still on board. That'll teach me, eh?! In the end he tried trotting in the other direction, but eventually, very cautiously took a flying leap over it!
And finally, this afternoon my normally impecably behaved Boo tried my patience to the max, she's in season and so, instead of being caught decided it would be fun to run around the field with her tail in the air flirting with poor Rocco, my sister's TB. He had absolutely no idea what she wanted him to do, Joey our little Shetland on the other hand, had every clue. There was just the small matter of the rather dramatic height difference. Poor Joey!
Managed to catch Beast Boo after about half an hour and to say I was not impressed was an understatement, luckily she made up for it by untying herself when I was getting her tack, but remained standing there with the end of the leadrope in her mouth, staring at me in the
"Look what I did" way that they have.
Oh I do love horses. Such fun!
Oh and finally, a question...
Pally needs a dummy. He chews on anything and everything he can, almost like hes teething, but hes 11 yrs old! He has had teeth problems before he came to his present owner, but has been checked and has no current problems, he has done this since he came a year and a half ago.
I have lost count of the number of leadropes, reins and general stuff he has wrecked. It's not a huge problem but one i'd like to understand.
Any ideas? Hes a 17hh WB who was imported from Holland in 01.
Thanks in advance.
