Today at arena, Horsey Teen was free lunging Lily over a jump. Only Lily was not going to have any of that! She would go anywhere but over the jump. Yes, she has done this before, yes, she knows what we want. Over and over she evaded the jump, more than once almost running over me to do so. ( I was being used as the solid object to block the deek out opening )
Lily kept running into a corner and standing there, ass pointing at kid. This is also not something that makes daughter happy. SO she gets the lunge whip and, while providing a large, obvious opening for horse to move back into arena, cracks the whip. Does not hit the horse, just makes it snap. What does horse do? Does she enter the arena, the nice big arena, through the large and obvious opening allowed for her? NO! From a stand still she leaps straight up and over the 4 foot fence under her chin and goes on a run. We watch, open mouthed, from inside the arena.
I expected her to go straight to the hay shed. Again, no. She runs into the area where the poo pile is, runs way past the poo pile to a small opening in the fence way beyond. Throug the opening into a jumble of bush and thickets of shrubbery. There she briefly stops at the edge of an ice covered slough, gives it a sniff and dives in. Flailing and lumping into the ice she goes, smashing it along the way. When we got there she was way out in the water, belly deep, happily eating swamp grass sticking up from the unsmashed ice around her. Neihter hay nor a bucket of oats would bribe her out. By this time the kid is wet,muddy, scratched by rose thorns, has burrs in her hair, shirt and everywhere. She is mad and saying words I cannot reprint here.
Along comes stable owner who is alarmed over this development and says, what do you want me to do? Daughter, in a charitable mood, suggests something that some might find offensive, but it involved guns and/or dynamite. Daughter feels that it takes one heck of a stupid horse to hurl itself willingly into an ice covered pond and refust to come out. When we finally left the horse was leaping and smashing through more ice and moving perilously close to an old, rotted, floating/frozen mess of single wire fencing. we were reluctant to enter the water and risk moving her into the wire. We finally left hopingthe horse has the good sense to exit the water before is starts to freeze around her!
What are the physical consequences of a horse standing in cold water for an extended period? As I type, the horse is still likely in the swamp, since we have not heard otherwise. I am not sure what type of rescue to be organizing, but am certain something will have to be done. Teen is ANGRY at stupid choices made by a horse that had many other options open to it. She says it is not worth sending someone into that muddy, frozen slouhg to grab that horse and risk having the horse lunge on top of them or in some other way a tragedy taking place. Hope horse decides to head for other horses soon. This has not been a good day.
Lily kept running into a corner and standing there, ass pointing at kid. This is also not something that makes daughter happy. SO she gets the lunge whip and, while providing a large, obvious opening for horse to move back into arena, cracks the whip. Does not hit the horse, just makes it snap. What does horse do? Does she enter the arena, the nice big arena, through the large and obvious opening allowed for her? NO! From a stand still she leaps straight up and over the 4 foot fence under her chin and goes on a run. We watch, open mouthed, from inside the arena.
I expected her to go straight to the hay shed. Again, no. She runs into the area where the poo pile is, runs way past the poo pile to a small opening in the fence way beyond. Throug the opening into a jumble of bush and thickets of shrubbery. There she briefly stops at the edge of an ice covered slough, gives it a sniff and dives in. Flailing and lumping into the ice she goes, smashing it along the way. When we got there she was way out in the water, belly deep, happily eating swamp grass sticking up from the unsmashed ice around her. Neihter hay nor a bucket of oats would bribe her out. By this time the kid is wet,muddy, scratched by rose thorns, has burrs in her hair, shirt and everywhere. She is mad and saying words I cannot reprint here.
Along comes stable owner who is alarmed over this development and says, what do you want me to do? Daughter, in a charitable mood, suggests something that some might find offensive, but it involved guns and/or dynamite. Daughter feels that it takes one heck of a stupid horse to hurl itself willingly into an ice covered pond and refust to come out. When we finally left the horse was leaping and smashing through more ice and moving perilously close to an old, rotted, floating/frozen mess of single wire fencing. we were reluctant to enter the water and risk moving her into the wire. We finally left hopingthe horse has the good sense to exit the water before is starts to freeze around her!
What are the physical consequences of a horse standing in cold water for an extended period? As I type, the horse is still likely in the swamp, since we have not heard otherwise. I am not sure what type of rescue to be organizing, but am certain something will have to be done. Teen is ANGRY at stupid choices made by a horse that had many other options open to it. She says it is not worth sending someone into that muddy, frozen slouhg to grab that horse and risk having the horse lunge on top of them or in some other way a tragedy taking place. Hope horse decides to head for other horses soon. This has not been a good day.
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Stupid horse. 
