WelshD
Well-Known Member
Three and a half years ago I met Milo when I went to purchase a different pony. It was not love at first sight, he was missing a fair bit of his coat on his underside and his ears had scabbed over to the point where he couldn't hear very well, despite the best efforts of his owners he had allergies that had blown out of all proportion but the environment was against him (not the owners fault, he was under vet treatment)
Some discussions with my husband later involving a major wobbly on my part that would leave a toddler in awe 'we' decided that the pony had to come and live with us and so home he came along with his little cart and harness
Some £2000 later he was on the road to recovery, we were eating baked beans for dinner and my husbands patience was threadbare but being a generally caring chap he tolerated the situation in a grown up and staid manner which involved the purchase of an xbox on my part
So here we are three and a half years later and our money pit is now seven years old and lives a leisurely life here due to our inability to find him a little rider, he likes a jump on the lunge and a potter down to the village for a chat with the local knitting circle
I think this may be the year he finally gets out and about more, our other pony Joey (who features in the story at the back of the Showing Journal magazine each month) may well have to share the limelight this year. I do not much fancy all that scrubbing though! our Milo likes his mud
2012:
2013:
2014 (video) I never get fed up of watching him break out his big trot in this!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMN0hSlLYtM
2016 - At the weekend (he was white when he left his stable!)
Even my husband is very attached to him now!
Some discussions with my husband later involving a major wobbly on my part that would leave a toddler in awe 'we' decided that the pony had to come and live with us and so home he came along with his little cart and harness
Some £2000 later he was on the road to recovery, we were eating baked beans for dinner and my husbands patience was threadbare but being a generally caring chap he tolerated the situation in a grown up and staid manner which involved the purchase of an xbox on my part
So here we are three and a half years later and our money pit is now seven years old and lives a leisurely life here due to our inability to find him a little rider, he likes a jump on the lunge and a potter down to the village for a chat with the local knitting circle
I think this may be the year he finally gets out and about more, our other pony Joey (who features in the story at the back of the Showing Journal magazine each month) may well have to share the limelight this year. I do not much fancy all that scrubbing though! our Milo likes his mud
2012:
2013:
2014 (video) I never get fed up of watching him break out his big trot in this!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMN0hSlLYtM
2016 - At the weekend (he was white when he left his stable!)
Even my husband is very attached to him now!
