Birker2020
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About a month ago I mucked out my horse, put his tea in his stable and walked him in. I left the door open as the door was awkward to open and shut and I needed to put his haynet in there. I knew he wouldn't walk out whilst eating his tea, so knew I had a couple of minutes. I went and grabbed his net out of the washbox and someone side tracked me and I forgot my door was open and walked off. During this time my horse walked out of his stable, I heard him walk up the aisle so followed him and tried to cut him off but he ran off down the ailse, then trotted into a field (which he had been in many years previously). He walked down to the bottom of the field in his stable rug in minus one temperatures in the dark. Fortunately he came to call with the aid of a bucket of nuts and no damage done!
Well last night stupid me, I only went and did the same thing, left his stable door open for a few seconds with the intention of going back to put in his net, got side tracked again and out he went. This time I didn't see him escape and was mortified when I returned and saw the empty stable.
This time he'd calmly walked up the ailse and out into the same field. Stood inside the gate, in his stable rug again, with mud up to his fetlocks, staring gormlessly a the ground. Two friends 'rescued him' for me! Again he came to call.
My question is (apart from the fact I have been totally stupid - twice
) why does he take himself into a muddy field when its minus one, and dark and he is all alone?????? Surely this goes against everything a horse would do to 'protect itself'.
And he is such a spooky horse that wouldn't normally dream of doing such a thing in broad daylight in case the monsters got him!!!! He spooks and snorts at everything in daylight!
Well last night stupid me, I only went and did the same thing, left his stable door open for a few seconds with the intention of going back to put in his net, got side tracked again and out he went. This time I didn't see him escape and was mortified when I returned and saw the empty stable.
This time he'd calmly walked up the ailse and out into the same field. Stood inside the gate, in his stable rug again, with mud up to his fetlocks, staring gormlessly a the ground. Two friends 'rescued him' for me! Again he came to call.
My question is (apart from the fact I have been totally stupid - twice
) why does he take himself into a muddy field when its minus one, and dark and he is all alone?????? Surely this goes against everything a horse would do to 'protect itself'.And he is such a spooky horse that wouldn't normally dream of doing such a thing in broad daylight in case the monsters got him!!!! He spooks and snorts at everything in daylight!
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