The swamp monster .......

[Celtic Fringe]

Today I was met with something that looked and smelled like a moving swamp on four legs I led him in at arms length while the whole yard noticeably avoided us. I carefully peeled off the rug and fly mask - and yes it was the same pony underneath. I had cherished a faint hope that my cob was hiding round the corner - sadly no The one muddy patch in his field was clearly much more attractive than the nice straw-bedded barn provided for his convenience and comfort. The picture does not do justice to the horrific volume of mud that was attached and the resultant slick from hosing it all off might yet be the subject of an investigation by the Environment Agency. I fear this is really his default setting, although sometimes he adopts a cunning disguise as a proper dressage pony for his fabulous rider

 

[Reacher]

Oh dear, ?

 

[Country Mouse]

He was having fun. Did he have that rug on on a hot day? Then I don't really blame him.

 

[HufflyPuffly]

This reminds me of when my mum put Topaz out sans rug the night before a comp...

You see the standing water in the background, that was what she had rolled in and omg did it stink! The picture doesn't really capture the true disgustingness of her, but a bit of soap and bling we were ready to dance again, lol.

 

[Annagain]

I feel your pain. I've had 5 horses in my life and 4 of them have been grey. One in particular was half horse half hippo. In all of these images bar the last one (he's now retired so he's permanently like this in winter), he waited for me to go to catch him and got himself this dirty while I watched. You could almost hear him say, "You weren't planning on riding me today were you...oops, sorry!"

He does get clean sometimes but I never seem to take photos then!

This is the new boy - yes that is mud UNDER his rug you can see there. I tried not to buy a grey and refused to look at them for 14 months. He was the first one I saw.

 

[Not_so_brave_anymore]

This reminds me of when my mum put Topaz out sans rug the night before a comp...

You see the standing water in the background, that was what she had rolled in and omg did it stink! The picture doesn't really capture the true disgustingness of her, but a bit of soap and bling we were ready to dance again, lol.

This looks like one of those "I *rescued* this horse 8 months ago- we've both been working really hard, and I'm really proud of how far we've come" posts!

 

[HufflyPuffly]

This looks like one of those "I *rescued* this horse 8 months ago- we've both been working really hard, and I'm really proud of how far we've come" posts!

Haha it took a couple of hours of washing but that was all, she wasn't even sorry!

She was very close to 'Swamp Donkey' being her show name .

 

[Celtic Fringe]

He was having fun. Did he have that rug on on a hot day? Then I don't really blame him.

He was delighted and had a lot of fun! Although it doesn't look like it in the pic the rug is a Horsewear fly rug so the mud had gone right through the mesh too He is fully clipped to keep his round cob body as cool as possible but the horseflies have come out now so he needs some protection. It rained heavily during the night hence the 'lovely' roll in the mud . We have now managed to restore him to something fit for public viewing!

 

[Celtic Fringe]

This reminds me of when my mum put Topaz out sans rug the night before a comp...

You see the standing water in the background, that was what she had rolled in and omg did it stink! The picture doesn't really capture the true disgustingness of her, but a bit of soap and bling we were ready to dance again, lol.

Wow I was really glad that we didn't have a competition yesterday. That must have been a job and a half What a nice looking pony too!

 

[TPO]

My last ex racer was a proper mud monster too. He had mastered the art of mud under rugs too ?

The writing was on the wall when he looked like this when I collected him.




It took a bit of elbow grease that day ?



Waste of time getting him nice things ?

 

[Celtic Fringe]

I feel your pain. I've had 5 horses in my life and 4 of them have been grey. One in particular was half horse half hippo. In all of these images bar the last one (he's now retired so he's permanently like this in winter), he waited for me to go to catch him and got himself this dirty while I watched. You could almost hear him say, "You weren't planning on riding me today were you...oops, sorry!"

He does get clean sometimes but I never seem to take photos then!

This is the new boy - yes that is mud UNDER his rug you can see there. I tried not to buy a grey and refused to look at them for 14 months. He was the first one I saw.

I bet he wasn't sorry at all That is also some skill at getting all that mud UNDER a rug! When I was thinking of buying my first pony I had a dapple grey mare in mind but both my cobs have been chestnut geldings. My son's horse is a dark bay so fortunately all of them are quite good at not showing the odd bit of dried mud!

 

[Celtic Fringe]

My last ex racer was a proper mud monster too. He had mastered the art of mud under rugs too ?

The writing was on the wall when he looked like this when I collected him.

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It took a bit of elbow grease that day ?
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Waste of time getting him nice things ?
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