VERY bad ponies!

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Auslander

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You see these innocent little faces? Butter wouldn't melt eh?
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WRONG!!

I have 15 acres of grazing to use, and one small strip that they are not allowed on - its a nice little strip that runs down one side of the driveway, and the owner of the property likes to mow it and keep unsullied by big fat horsey feet.
So - when you're trying to move the electric fencing single handedly, and the little sods spot a gap and make a bid for freedom - where do they end up? And having ended up there, do you think they stood still and quietly ate the lovely green grass?

Did they hell! 20 minutes of charging around, leaping, bucking, snorting, squealing and doing handbrake turns.

They are thoroughly unrepentant - positively SMUG in fact. I don't love them AT ALL today...
 
Naughty ponies.....I once was washing my normally grubby white horse when he lived in a pub yard stable, he broke free and ran out of the gate around the corner and down to the vicarage where he the proceeded to buck and skid and jump all over the Vicars lawn, shot around the back and scared the **** out of said Vicar who was doing his veggie patch. I stood horrified at what he'd done and went to apologise...."My!! doesn't he look magnificent when he's clean!!" exclaimed the Vicar, (who we often saw in grubby mode) "Like a Pegasus flying through the air....!", I duly apologised and collected my 'magical' horse and marched him home!
 
Little stinkers are still up to no good! Just went over to feed, and Spike saw me coming up the drive, and hopped over the electric fence. 19 years old, and thinks he's an event horse!
 
I was going to ask how many divots did you have to stomp - oh dear. The do wait for the moment you move the fence though in my experience. I have a very small strip keeping the horses back from the quickthorn and where do you think my filly went - all the way to the bottom and then had to reverse back out!!
 
mjcssjw2 said:
I was going to ask how many divots did you have to stomp - oh dear. The do wait for the moment you move the fence though in my experience. I have a very small strip keeping the horses back from the quickthorn and where do you think my filly went - all the way to the bottom and then had to reverse back out!!
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The strip is about 20ft wide, and 100ft long, and the three of them galloped up and down it for a long time. I have a LOT of divots to deal with!
 
Oh, it was just a gap in the fence trick they have to pull off every once in a while. Just showing you up on creating that gap for them!!
It's happened to me before... and they weren't my friends after that for a while.

Saying that though, when it happens to someone else, it is kinda funny!!
 
Hehe! My Gelding KNEW that my ex yard owner was anal about her lawn (and more than slightly deranged with it) and took great delight in stomping all over it at any given opportunity... He just KNEW it would wind her up...and it did!! Now at our less than tidy yard, he has been impecably behaved for the last 6 months...
 
Well of course they tanked about! They may only gone to the other side of the fence that they see across every day but once you are in that magical place it's too exciting to even remotely sedate! Barrel racing all the way!

Naughty ponies :D
 
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