Ted the Terrorist!

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So much for my protestations that he is a very good Shitland!

Ted has been coming in at night to keep an old man company. He seems to approve, despite having to suffer the indignity of a pallet/baler twine door, because his legs are too short for him to see over the stable door.

Ted, however, is a bit fresh in the mornings. I led him and his friend down to the paddock this morning, and someone dropped a skip behind the hedge. His friend is 26, and a bit creaky, but he's TB, and still sharp. He had a meltdown, while we negotiating the muddy gateway. SO I let go of Ted, expecting him to find a patch of grass and keep himself busy til I had the old man sorted.

Nope. Ted took off out of the field as if the hounds of hell were after him, and ran amok round the yard. It took rather longer than expected to get the old man turned out, so by the time I went off in pursuit of the little ginger hooligan, he was having a whale of a time playing catch me if you can with the builders.

He is a very bad pony, who isn't half as innocent as he looks...
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Ha-ha! :D The Saint has now got a crack ;)

Lol at him, my tinies are the ones I NEVER let go of in emergency, not since the time TF went for a hike up the lane outside my yard, instead of heading into stable at speed.... :redface3: luckily, she headbutted into a jogger, who heard me bellowing - and grabbed her neck in a rugby tackle, stopping her in her tracks in surprise!
 
Cheeky monkey - there's not been a shetland born yet who always does exactly what you expect them too.

Love Ted he's brilliant, if there's one pony that would make me get over my 'no more tinies' rule it would be him :) :)
 
The Fuzzy Furry said:
Ha-ha! :D The Saint has now got a crack ;)

Lol at him, my tinies are the ones I NEVER let go of in emergency, not since the time TF went for a hike up the lane outside my yard, instead of heading into stable at speed.... :redface3: luckily, she headbutted into a jogger, who heard me bellowing - and grabbed her neck in a rugby tackle, stopping her in her tracks in surprise!
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Ohh my goodness that sound hilarious :) unless it was a main road...

Fiona
 
Fiona said:
Ohh my goodness that sound hilarious :) unless it was a main road...

Fiona
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Luckily its an unmade lane to access 3 houses, 4 yards and the bridleway - at least she headed towards the houses & not the main A road in the other direction, ho-hum.
I had got slack about main yard gate, tho it was almost closed, there was a 1ft space open............ never again, its firmly closed at all times.
 
Ted is currently resisting arrest! I want him to come in and go to bed. He is standing in a knee high (ie - about 3inches deep) mud puddle at the far end of the field, with a defiant expression on his face!
 
Heehee you can't say we didn't tell you so! If there’s anything that motivates a mini more than grass, it’s mischief! Ours once had to be chased for two miles down a (thankfully very quiet) lane – he had escaped and fancied an adventure. Eventually he decided he had had enough and allowed himself to be caught and dragged home.
 
His stomach betrayed him. He heard feedbuckets rattling, and came up the field so fast that his little legs were a blur. Disproportionate level of excitement for the pathetic amount of hard feed he gets!
 
That's a very familiar "plotting my very next move" face! At least you only have one to contend with.... Hustle & Havoc (AKA as Agent Norty Number One and Agent Norty Number Two) deploy Team Stealth Shetland tactics to great effect and I know the "run for the hills" manoeuvre only too well when they have slipped through a tiny opening and there is someone around to chase them. Especially if that someone is about to be late for work or school. If no-one is around they satisfy themselves with ransacking the yard.........
 
LCH611 said:
That's a very familiar "plotting my very next move" face! At least you only have one to contend with.... Hustle & Havoc (AKA as Agent Norty Number One and Agent Norty Number Two) deploy Team Stealth Shetland tactics to great effect and I know the "run for the hills" manoeuvre only too well when they have slipped through a tiny opening and there is someone around to chase them. Especially if that someone is about to be late for work or school. If no-one is around they satisfy themselves with ransacking the yard.........
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I suspect that capture would have been much easier yesterday if the builders hadn't tried to help. He thought it was a great game! I usually ignore him when he does a runner, and he comes back pretty quickly!
 
Auslander said:
I suspect that capture would have been much easier yesterday if the builders hadn't tried to help. He thought it was a great game! I usually ignore him when he does a runner, and he comes back pretty quickly!
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Absolutely.... the more people the little furry t*rds have diving at them to apprehend them, the better the game is. It is when mine slip off into the woods on a shoot day that I know I can't leave them unattended. I think they must have secret access to the estate diary!
 
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