Tuesday 10 February 2009

Herding Deer Through a River

Ok, so maybe it wasn't quite like the title but, all will be explained!

Mayfly has these new strips with a magnet in that velcro up, which go around her fetlocks on her hind legs. They are supposed to help with her arthritis, she looks like a bit of a idiot bless her. She has to have them on all the time (or as much as possible). hehe.

Hacked yesterday but, wasn't much to write about as it was cold and very very wet!

Went up again today, Mayfly was in a bit of a grump as she had been stuck in her stable all day doing nothing...she even went to bite me :O she felt my arm and moved so fast in the other direction as she knew that what she had done meant BIG TROUBLE!
Then to add to her annoying behavior she decided that she would make her self super fat meaning that it was close to impossible to get her girth on, and she is getting fat anyway with only walking and being stuck in eating haylage! oh deary me!

Eventually we went on our hack...it was a rather adventurous one, everything was flooded. There were mini waterfalls, and I was basically walking through rivers...it was crazy!
To add to the excitement things were all rather scary and spooky for poor Fly. The birds, deer on the track, some blue tarp floating on the "river" and she walked my leg into a twig which snapped and sent her flying but, I managed to control her quickly.

Then we went into a field which was full of deer and we seemed to be herding them, wherever we went the ran in the other direction...haha they are such stupid creatures!

2 comments:

annie said...

poor mayfly ]= you'll still be able to jump her and ride her even though she has arthritis right? Aww.

Annabel said...

thanks :o)
no jumping.
but, yeah when the ground is good we will be able to walk, trot, bit of canter.