LadyGascoyne
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How did I find such an absolute star of a horse? She has such an amazing brain on her, I feel like I get more support from her than I do from most humans.
Last night we had a minor crisis. A fuse began to fail on one of the electricity pylons in our fields. There were flickering lights and power surges across three of the local villages. By about 1.30am, and in the pouring rain and pitch black, SSE arrives with trucks lit up like Christmas trees, an entourage of other cars. And of course the fault is with the pylon in the field that the horses are in.
I’m out there as quickly as possible. Miri, being a normal horse - a sweet horse but a normal horse- is very worried about the loud noises, beeping, flashing lights, strange men in luminous clothing etc and is prancing about. Mim, however, has got this. She came to call, despite the scary things, popped her nose in the head collar, and led my way in the dark to go and fetch Miri.
Miri was really not happy and we had a lot of plunging around which is dangerous in the dark, especially when it’s so slippery. But the pratting about stopped immediately when Mim gave her a good telling off
So then I had a brave Mim, and a sheepish but shaky Miri, one in each hand, and I had to navigate farm gates which we don’t usually use to go the long way around to the yard. But of course Mim will wait, back up, move around the gate and reverse to help me close it. So it’s only really leading one horse - Mim is more like having a shadow.
When we eventually get onto the yard, there are three scary unknown vehicles. And I’ve got to get two horses into their stables, knowing Miri hates her stable at the best of times. I’m holding my breath as we walk through the vehicles but Mim is so cool, she just strides right through and Miri is too shell shocked to object. I did get Miri into her stable, but not without some convincing. Mim stands like a rock until it’s her turn to go in, and then effectively puts herself to bed.
Photos pre adventure because it wouldn’t have been safe to not have 100% focus on getting there in one piece.
The next morning, we still had SSE in the yard and, murphy’s law, I’d booked the trimmer. I ended up having to give Miri half a tube of relaquine and we managed her ok. Mim, on the other hand, was completely unfazed by everything.
Good background shot of the level of chaos
And of course Mim endeared herself to all the big burly SSE chaps. They all thought she was marvelous. Huge credit to SSE - they worked through the night, and switched out teams for the morning but got the whole thing sorted by lunch. Pretty amazing.
I just love my little friend so much. She is such a pleasure, so clever and she steps up beautifully no matter what peculiar thing is thrown at her. I don’t know whether it’s nature or nurture, if it’s the Arab war mare genetics in combination with her lovely, generous nature. I’ve never had a horse who is just so actively helpful.
Last night we had a minor crisis. A fuse began to fail on one of the electricity pylons in our fields. There were flickering lights and power surges across three of the local villages. By about 1.30am, and in the pouring rain and pitch black, SSE arrives with trucks lit up like Christmas trees, an entourage of other cars. And of course the fault is with the pylon in the field that the horses are in.
I’m out there as quickly as possible. Miri, being a normal horse - a sweet horse but a normal horse- is very worried about the loud noises, beeping, flashing lights, strange men in luminous clothing etc and is prancing about. Mim, however, has got this. She came to call, despite the scary things, popped her nose in the head collar, and led my way in the dark to go and fetch Miri.
Miri was really not happy and we had a lot of plunging around which is dangerous in the dark, especially when it’s so slippery. But the pratting about stopped immediately when Mim gave her a good telling off
So then I had a brave Mim, and a sheepish but shaky Miri, one in each hand, and I had to navigate farm gates which we don’t usually use to go the long way around to the yard. But of course Mim will wait, back up, move around the gate and reverse to help me close it. So it’s only really leading one horse - Mim is more like having a shadow.
When we eventually get onto the yard, there are three scary unknown vehicles. And I’ve got to get two horses into their stables, knowing Miri hates her stable at the best of times. I’m holding my breath as we walk through the vehicles but Mim is so cool, she just strides right through and Miri is too shell shocked to object. I did get Miri into her stable, but not without some convincing. Mim stands like a rock until it’s her turn to go in, and then effectively puts herself to bed.
Photos pre adventure because it wouldn’t have been safe to not have 100% focus on getting there in one piece.
The next morning, we still had SSE in the yard and, murphy’s law, I’d booked the trimmer. I ended up having to give Miri half a tube of relaquine and we managed her ok. Mim, on the other hand, was completely unfazed by everything.
Good background shot of the level of chaos
And of course Mim endeared herself to all the big burly SSE chaps. They all thought she was marvelous. Huge credit to SSE - they worked through the night, and switched out teams for the morning but got the whole thing sorted by lunch. Pretty amazing.
I just love my little friend so much. She is such a pleasure, so clever and she steps up beautifully no matter what peculiar thing is thrown at her. I don’t know whether it’s nature or nurture, if it’s the Arab war mare genetics in combination with her lovely, generous nature. I’ve never had a horse who is just so actively helpful.
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