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How's your day in the barn going?
My gigantic crazy yearling filly, (NEVER own a warmblood, people!), who's over 15.2 and 1200 lbs on her first birthday and absolutely nuts to work with, decided she didn't want to be lead around any longer. (This was not news to me, as on the other end of the leadrope I am getting used to her crazy crap so it does not come as a surprise, yet, her sheer stupidity still amazes me.)
As I was trying in vain to get her to stop acting like an idiot, one of the baby goats decided that was the perfect time to come out of his stall and get under her feet.
So as I'm now holding on desperately with a rapidly deteriorating rotator cuff joint to a crazy horse while clutching a screaming baby goat under my other arm, the best barn cat we have decided that was a really good time to come shooting out of the hay bales across the front of before mentioned crazy filly, causing the reaction we all know it would cause.
The sudden rearing of the crazy ass filly then caused all the barn swallows who had been nesting peacefully in the rafters to decide this was a good time to get the hell out of Dodge, and who can blame them? So the sudden swift flight of about 20 birds made the barn cat decide it was worth the risk to life and limb and she turned around to make a go at them, thus guaranteeing she run directly under the filly, AGAIN.....
By this time the baby goat was getting frantic, his mother and siblings were all screaming their heads off, the other yearling was raising hell, and the only calm place in the whole barn was the stall of the 22 year old Shetland, who's seen it all and could care less. I envy that pony.
So I let go of the lead rope, the mare shot out of the barn (towards the road, of course, not into the field), the cat survived but only has 6 lives left max at this point, the baby goat got put back in his pen, ending the pneumatic screaming of his mother, THANK GOD,
And I got the grain bucket with my one remaining good arm and bribed the bitch back into the barn, not training wise the best but better than a car accident... LOL
How's the day going at your barn? :)
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