Who asked Re ponies in the garden???

[Christmas_Kate]

Being a gorgeous day and the kids were in the garden having fun OH suggested I go fetch G and bring him up to the house.
The garden is well fenced, not many plants etc, and garden needed trimming.
First hour, perfect, he stood and grazed whilst the kids groomed him, I decided that I'd give him another hour then let eldest take him for a ride. OH went out and groomed him (shock horror!... he is SO unhorsey), then the kids came in so I took G's headcollar off and left him to graze.
The ice cream van came by, right next to the garden and G didnt flinch, too busy eating.
Suddenly OH said "where's G?" I looked out, and he was round the side, no worries, all fenced in. Next thing i knew, OH was shouting.
G was eating the rose bush

. I rushed out to find OH waving his arms and shouting still

. Told him to stop as he was frightening him. I went to put his headcollar on and he just went loopy. Galloping round, bucking and bronking. OH chasing after him, G kicking out. OMFG.
In the end I managed to usher OH into the house and bribe G with polos to let me catch him. Neighbours were out staring, oh, the shame!!

OH told me to "take that bl**** animal away", so I took him back to the yard. He was going loopy all the way, bucking and squealing

.

Came home to realise the garden is now just a series of huge holes and horse poo

and he's kicked a huge dent in the oil tank.....

.I've told OH NEVER to try for nagman of the year, and that he terrified poor G, and made it worse.

We are now not speaking.......

 

[josie_s]

I put our pet jersey cow, Charlie in the garden once

as I hadn't got round to cutting the grass. But it didn't go down too well

 

[madhector]

oh dear

Put Rio and Hector in the old orchard (as in trees are no longer, and is more like the front lawn

) last summer

she decided to have a hooley and the lawn was no longer

 

[Tinkerbee]

we always had the ponies and goats in the gardens as kids....had the goats in the house once....

 

[kirstyfk]

We have put our horses in the garden when our lawn mower was broken, they did a grand job.

 

[isabella]

i have mine on my front garden she did try to wander over to next doors but she came back when i called her (polos did help) never had and problems really we also bath her on the drive all my neighbours come out to watch and laugh at me. hope yours is ok now

 

[Fiona_C]

LMAO wish I'd been there to see that, poor P !!! Poor G lol and most of all poor you, trying to recover normality.

 

[fizzer]

when we were kids we used to take mine through my auntys house ( we had to to get to back garden) and put them in the back yard whilst we had lunch, was great fun

 

[Christmas_Kate]

. I was half hoping you'd drive past and help me to catch him lol. He was going mental

 

[*hic*]

Just looking out at my next door neighbours' pony in the garden. That's where they keep it, the garden is about 90' by 50'. It was on livery at my other neighbours - but that was too expensive, I found them other grazing but they decided they didn't want to pay for it. So it has an 8'x5' shed and shares the garden with lots of building materials, discarded bicycles, toys, patio furniture. etc. They muck it out into black plastic bags which they just line up along the boundary. Yesterday when the weather was freezing and wet it was out with no rug - then they came home and put its rug on it whilst it was still wet and put it in the shed. Today it's warm and sunny and it's outside with a stable rug on.

They do not welcome advice and I've taken to only commenting when they are doing something downright immediately dangerous either for the children or the pony.

 

[Christmas_Kate]

Our garden is pretty safe, and he's only 9.3hh! I wouldnt dream of actually keeping him in there, although our shed's big enough to be a stable for him. I couldnt cope with him churning it up on a daily basis, and OH wold probably move out if I moved the pony in.
In Belfast it used to be (don't know if it still is) common practice to keep ponies in gardens. I guess if you have a huge garden and it's got good fencing etc then why not?

 

[Dutch]

Oh No!
The amount of times Dutchie would somehow untie himself and get through the gate and gallop around the garden in uncalculatable! He then prefered getting away from me by letting himself out of the stable or undoing the lead rope and the gate and galloping to the arena before doing the most wonderful elevated trot! So he could do it!!

You should call a truce with your OH, they all have great ideas and always get in a bit of a mood if it doesn't work.

Di x

 

[spooks]

it was me who asked about ponies in gardens katy, the house im moving to has a huge garden and it is literally just grass with bushes surrounding the border and a huge christmas tree in residence to. council will have to secure the back fence as the local kids have trampled it down.. as for tinkerbelle having a hooly round in it ,wont be a problem ,also i dont have an 'him indoors' so thats not a problem either! would never leave her in there over night as some git would probably steal her. just planning on the odd day so she can mow the grass !