That heart stopping moment

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Don't you just hate them heart stopping moments :(. When I got to the stables today my 3 were all layed down chilling. My haffy & cob got up when they saw me, but my other horse didn't. So I continued to put my welly's on while watching him & he still hadn't moved, so as you do started to worry & there I was rustling a bag, called him & still nothing not even a flicker of his tail moved. Now panic really set in, I made a point of opening & banging the gate on my way in, but still nothing. So there I am walking very fast with my phone out ready to make a dreaded call, to approach him to find his eyes shut, his lips flickering & him snoring :eek:.

He then decided to wake up & look at me in disgrace for waking him up :rolleyes:. Don't you just love having horses :p

This is them when I arrived he is the bay at back, my haffy is abit blurry as he had just got up.

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& Murphy as I approached him :)

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My YO was having some building work done when one of the builders came running inot the barn

'Is that big black horse yours?' he asked

I replied yes and he went on ' I don't like to panic you but I think he is dead!! He has been flat out for half an hour that I have been watching!'

Panicked run across field to snoring Sec D.

Don't they just love to do it to you? Glad yours was ok too.
 
Pesky humans when having a lovely snooze in the sun! Bet he was dreaming of fields full of carrots! Had a couple of heart stopping moments like that too! Murphy is lovely!
 
Hate it when they do that! Once went to feed ours early as parents were away and I had to feed and check before work. The two biggun's were up grazing, old shetland was flat out with a crow walking about on him. Wasn't even snoring as usual. Honestly thought he'd died and had his eye pecked out. Raced across the field wondering how I ws going to get hold of parents and what I'd say when he sat up, farted and then got up. Little swine. :)
 
Its the heartstopping dreaded phonecall from a fellow livery or yard owner that i find the worst!! I got one the other day and i almost had an aneurysm before i answered the phone to 'do you mind if i borrow half a bale of straw until tomorrow please?!'
 
Toast said:
Its the heartstopping dreaded phonecall from a fellow livery or yard owner that i find the worst!! I got one the other day and i almost had an aneurysm before i answered the phone to 'do you mind if i borrow half a bale of straw until tomorrow please?!'
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I do this :o I found my old pony snoring and cantering in his sleep one day and I thought he was fitting because I didn't know horses could snore :o
 
Toast, head girl at our place doesn't say hello if she phones. She opens all calls with "don't panic......" Because people see her number and assume the worst!
 
Kat said:
Toast, head girl at our place doesn't say hello if she phones. She opens all calls with "don't panic......" Because people see her number and assume the worst!
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My YO does that too!

Have had a similar run down the field with my TB, it's not funny!!!
 
Mine did this to me the other day, he didn't come when I called and all the other horses were the bar him. Greedy horse was in the lee of the hill stuffing his face :rolleyes:

Love the Shetland + crow story :D
 
My youngster regularly does this to me, usually in her stable, where she lays flat out and doesn't move a muscle, with her eye wide open! The amount of times I've gone in there or yard staff have just to check she's breathing is crazy. She must hate all the interruptions ;) trouble is it's the time you don't interrupt that they aren't ok so I'll just keep on waking her up! :o
 
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