AdorableAlice
Well-Known Member
Thank you for all the good wishes for the dreaded hospital visit, not heard anything yet so as far as I am concerned no news is good news.
Now, can someone please take Ted to Specsavers and me plus my car to be valeted. Ted will not be troubling any of the eventers out there that is for sure after this mornings failure.
This morning I opened a gate into the field adjacent their mud patch, it has a rather deep and welly sucking gateway. Alice and her half brother Dim Tim came bowling over very excited at the prospect of a different field. Dim Tim is rising 3 and all legs, he gave a graceful leap over the mud clearing it by a good bit, Alice looked at it suspiciously before doing the minimum leap possible and a bit of a shuffle, she did not want to chip her nail varnish or splash her tutu.
Ted is still across the field and taking no notice so I called him, big mistake ! I am holding the gate open and carefully balanced on a drier patch. He set off flat out getting to the gateway in a nanosecond and he launched, not over but straight up like a blooming jump jet. At this point I realised this was not going to end well ! I could not let the gate go and run because it would swing at him, so I just stood there and thought oh $%$%%.
What goes up comes down, directly down in this case, no attempt to stretch out at all. The resultant mud tsunami was epic and the lot came my way. My cosy furry head band resembled a drowned rat, my face covered in mud, my coat and jeans pebbled dashed. I had to sit on a feed sack in my car to go home. He was not even slightly sorry, bonkers blooming carthorse.
Note to self, when the time comes for him to see hounds, obtain crash test dummy that is confident over ditches and has a velcro bottom.
Now, can someone please take Ted to Specsavers and me plus my car to be valeted. Ted will not be troubling any of the eventers out there that is for sure after this mornings failure.
This morning I opened a gate into the field adjacent their mud patch, it has a rather deep and welly sucking gateway. Alice and her half brother Dim Tim came bowling over very excited at the prospect of a different field. Dim Tim is rising 3 and all legs, he gave a graceful leap over the mud clearing it by a good bit, Alice looked at it suspiciously before doing the minimum leap possible and a bit of a shuffle, she did not want to chip her nail varnish or splash her tutu.
Ted is still across the field and taking no notice so I called him, big mistake ! I am holding the gate open and carefully balanced on a drier patch. He set off flat out getting to the gateway in a nanosecond and he launched, not over but straight up like a blooming jump jet. At this point I realised this was not going to end well ! I could not let the gate go and run because it would swing at him, so I just stood there and thought oh $%$%%.
What goes up comes down, directly down in this case, no attempt to stretch out at all. The resultant mud tsunami was epic and the lot came my way. My cosy furry head band resembled a drowned rat, my face covered in mud, my coat and jeans pebbled dashed. I had to sit on a feed sack in my car to go home. He was not even slightly sorry, bonkers blooming carthorse.
Note to self, when the time comes for him to see hounds, obtain crash test dummy that is confident over ditches and has a velcro bottom.
Silly Ted. Maybe he meant to fart on the way up hoping the power would propel him forward?
