When horses look after you ...

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I'm always amazed at the way horses behave when they know something is wrong.

My pony can be a bit of a monkey to lead sometimes and can pull / put his head down to eat etc if I don't have a firm hold of him and make him walk nicely when coming in.

Yesterday I got caught in the middle when another pony in the field ran at him. Not sure what happened but I put my arm up to protect myself and ended up with a nasty cut right on the bone of my wrist and for a few minutes I thought it might be broken as it went totally numb and I couldn't move it. My pony just nuzzled me as if to ask if I was ok, and then walked in with me from the field like a donkey with me just holding the leadrope loosely! Love him!

Thankfully wrist is fine, just bruised and pulled I think. And I'm stabled at a doctors house, so she fixed my cut for me with surgical strips!

 

[Cadfael&Coffee]

Firstly- owie!!!!!

And yes, they always seem to know don't they. Many's the time I've cried into my horse's mane, and they just stand there nuzzling me

And if I'm having a bad day they always know!!!

 

[Tiasmum]

Tia has always been very caring like that. Slowing down if she ever felt me losing my balance and only ever bombing off at 100mph if I was having a confident day she knew . Great childs pony!

The one and only time I did fall off and was hobbling around in pain the expression on her face was priceless, she just looked really worried about it lol bless her

 

[Elle123]

ouch! hope it heals okay.
Beanie is amazing. I get spells where it can be difficult to walk with my M.E. One day I was walking her in with my hand on her neck because i was struggling and tripped slightly. She quickly put her neck under my arm to catch me. I was so shocked I just started crying!!! They really do know so much more than we sometimes give them credit for.