please could someone explain to my mother...

Emilieu

Emilieu

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That I am
a) a boy
And
b) not a Labrador.

She has taken to dragging me around the countryside on a leash like those small noisy things that wave their tails about in a foolish manner. She says this is due to something called 'box rest' which to me simply seems to mean that i get to munch hay in the warm and dry while the other suckers get thrown out in the mud and rain. So I like box rest and can live with the fact that I'm not getting to demonstrate my strength and agility by carrying her around but why oh why must I be embarrassed by walking past all the neighbourhood horses looking like this:

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I know she values your opinions so please please explain to her that pink is for girls and definitely not for red heads! While you are at it if you could have a quiet word about that god awful noise she makes as we go - I think she calls it singing - that would be smashing.

Thanks all.

Deano x
 
I'll try to convince my mates of that Bahhumbug but don't know that I fancy my chances much. As if I wasn't getting enough of a slagging for my fancy new 'remedial shoes'. Oh the shame of it!
 
I so feel your pain. My mum made me wear those bands on my legs when she rode me. I am at present on bed rest and not allowed out except on the yard. I constantly have to go back in when mum is mucking out to oversee things, she can be a bit slapdash. I like to keep standards up as one never knows when the Dr or foot person is going to turn up.

I look forward to going out on walks but I must admit with all this ghastly rain am quite happy to be tucked up in the warm and dry.
 
I'm retired and 32 but my mother insists on putting me out in this rain and mud when I could just mooch round the yard on the leadrope nibbling grass and go back to bed. I get to stay in a couple of days a week when she goes to earn hay but just because she's at home most days at the moment she thinks it's ok to leave me out.
 
yes my mother embarrassed me terribly this morning, my bad @ss street cred as a "typical ginger tb mare" had gone for ever * hangs head in shame* after she called me gingysnuff this morning in front of the other mums and accused me of snuffuluffiging in her pockets for treats! i too am on box rest, but please i am fine with it! i don't need ctwches and kisses every 5 minutes leave me with my haynet & s0d off to work woman!! :D
 
Gingysnuff that'll be a tough one to recover from I admit. Don't let mother hear that one, she already shouts me in by calling 'baby boy' across the field at me. And then she wonders why I don't answer...
Spotsrock lucky you, everyone on my yard is retired so I think I should be too but apparently it doesn't work that way. Still I'm a TB so plenty of injury time ahead.
Janah I like to keep a close eye on mum too, otherwise I'm sure she'll skip bits. She says its hard to get on with her work when I keep doing this:

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Aren't we all lucky on bed rest, anyone would think our humans didn't like their beds the way they fuss on about it - when I've definitely heard mother saying she'd give anything for a day in bed. Ha, try three months :)
 
I think I really screwed up. I happened to decide to walk across my muddy field to meet my mother at the gate -- after she'd called my name a few times and I'd contemplated the slog through the mud -- when she happened to call, "Here horsey, horsey, horsey!" How embarrassing. I may have inadvertantly rewarded this behaviour and trained her to call me that.

And she insists on dressing me up like this. Every. Single. Ride.

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Yup you have messed that training up. The key is to look total blank until the treats appear. I have mum pretty sorted on this one, especially now she's feeling sorry for me :)
Look on the bright side - since you are camouflaged maybe no-one will notice you in your get up?
Winkles i'll be needing that number. Today we did the Labrador thing IN THE HAIL. She has lost her mind and can no longer be trusted to take care of someone as precious as little old me!
 
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