When I brought Lil to the pen gate to go out, her head went
up, eyes went wide, body went tense and she produced ‘roller snorts’. When I
looked around, the only thing I could see that changed was a puddle in Teefa’s
pen and that was definitely what caught her eye.
Of course, to go out the gate meant we had to go closer to
it. I made sure I did my job correctly going through the gate so as not to
become ‘road kill’ when she spooked at it – and spook she did. We worked about
90 seconds on the scary thing then she decided it wouldn’t bite. She was fine
from that point on.
This incident brought back memories of a similar situation
in which I didn’t listen to the horse and do what I should have for them (not
any I have today). The end result on that was the horse knocked me down and
out.
This is just a reminder that all of us dealing with horse
need to remember ‘Given the right circumstances, any horse will act like a
horse’. We are the ones that have to insure our own safety.
I took the picture just as soon as I tied Lil up so we can
‘see through her eyes’ how it looked. We had lots of shadows (always do this
time of day) and reflections from the water (new to this location).
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