NEVER own a miniature!

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Just spent the last 2 hours searching for the mini who had escaped through electric fencing and a cattle grid.

Normally it's hard to even get him to move away from grass and there is loads of it! But he decided to go for a walk down the lane and up a very steep hill, to be found standing on the side of the lane asleep in the sun!

So if anyone wants a free miniature - you're more than welcome to this one...

And here is the culprit:
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Lol :D

My Tiny Fuzzy disappeared 2 days ago when my back was turned....... it was only when I was right up by the (still standing and also still on) electric fence that I realised that the long grass was waving in an odd fashion across that paddock :D Thank goodness she had still got her grazing muzzle on!
Grass was taller than her & she had poddled off to the furthest corner to chat to Giant Fuzzy under the fence :D

How it makes me giggle with the SAS tactics :D

(ps, I am fenced for mini's - the boundary fence is a full height to ground, deer fence, tho the inside is P&R with 2 heights of low tape)
 
He can definately come and live with my two miniatures he is beautiful! My yearling escapes too and has been brought back on the the end of a dog lead by my neighbours! They are so much fun to own though, wouldn't be without mine for anything.:D
 
Handsome lad - looks like butter wouldn't melt!

Our minis have dismantled our electric fence energiser - all in bits yesterday. Great fun!
 
isn't it strange when I laugh when the minis escape and I am really calm about it as they only go to the nearest bit of grass but if my big horses got out I would be besides myself with worry that they would make their way down to the road.:D
 
Ha, ha, I'm not surprised at all! We have actually taken to using pallets to keep our one at the yard in (she isn't actually mine but a very good friend's).
She has the most amazing, cheeky but lovely personality though that you can't help but love her.
 
Oh what a little sweetheart. Beautiful photo.

There were minis at Mollie's yard (re-homed now), they were constantly escaping and getting up to mischief. I honestly think that if a horse like Mollie escaped, she'd be really likely to panic and injure herself. but these little guys are clever, wily and sure-footed.

Still, you really don't want them setting off up the road! :D
 
My old mini used to get out by climing the muck heap which was against a fence and jumping over the fence and down the other side. How he didn't break something I don't know! Once had a phonecall at 6.30am to tell us he was in the church yard eating the plants off the graves :o

If and when I ever get our own place I will fence it for mini's and have a few, I adore them :)
 
I only know two minis well myself, but when I got daughters pony who's dam was a mini, I did a bit of research & asking about on the breed for anything I needed to be aware of. The main thing that stood out was their amazing ability to escape, a bit like hamsters.
 
Oh me me me meeeee!!
Although I do sympathise. When I was away my big brother agreed to check on the horses twice a day for me. One morning he found our mini the wrong side of the gate. However Sunny did not want to be caught so my brother chased him for three miles until he would let him anywhere near him! Three miles poor thing!
 
He's gorgeous!

My friends mini stallion used to pull up all the electric fence posts round his paddock by gripping the posts with his teeth! She has to put up loads of strand of tape to stop him doing it! She has another little filly who can roll and wriggle under unbelievably low strands of tape. She still loves them though:D
 
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