Wagtail
Horse servant
Horses are so different, aren't they? We have a bully boy cob who beats up the others so has to be in his own separate paddock. He always wolfs down his breakfast first and then goes to try and intimidate the others off their food (even though there is an electric fence between them and so he can't reach it). I always turn it off to go and feed the horses and then hang around to collect the bowls. This morning he decided to break through the fence by kicking at it and, of course got himself totally tangled up with fence posts popping all over the place! Nightmare. No hard hat and a panicking horse to sort out. But he only struggled for around ten seconds before standing still as a rock, the fencing rope wrapped tight around one hind leg. Bless him, he stood like that whilst I ummed and ah'd wondering what the best thing was to do. He gave me the time to move a couple of posts to slacken off the rope and then allowed me to pick up his hind leg and release it from the fencing. The result: a horse wthout a scratch when he could so easily have severed a tendon.
