Bailey made me cry today!

[rummi]

Bailey gave me a serious fright today - I'm sure its happened to most of us at least once....

I go into the field, can see Rum and Wellyn, but no Bailey. I call him, no sign. I'm scared he's escaped or been stolen. I head towards Rum, and see a Bailey-coloured mound next to him at the far side of the field, near the electric fence.

I now worry as he's not moving, I start running, calling and shouting his name - he doesn't move. I get very close, very upset at this point, imagining hes jumped the electric fence again, slipped in the mud and broken a leg or neck.....

Finally, when i'm very close, he lifts his head, jumps up and gazes sleepily at me through his blond forelock!

He's absolutely fine, but was inside the sectioned off area (AGAIN!) and was obviously having a snooze after pigging himself out all night...grrrr! I did give him a big hug!

WHY do they always do that to us, and why do we always panic???!!!

[breezy]

Really gets your heart and adrenalin going doesn't it!! Not nice - glad he's ok!

I once trapsed around a 10 acre field in the fog desperately searching for a 2yo connemara! I was just getting REALLY scared when I turned around and he was following me, merrily blackberrying in the hedge - I think he'd been behind me the whole way, but just far enough away that I hadn't been able to see him!! He could have said something!!

Bx

[KoLaTo]

Xmas night last yr, time for pony beddie byes - 14 acre field - pitch black - black pony? No-where to be seen....... all others accounted and put to bed and still no sign....... mooning over the hedge at the coloured stally in the furthest corner........ tripped over her forelock before i found her.....

[Azrael]

Baad pony worrying you like that!

Its Mia's favorite trick She likes to sleep flat out in the field and will sleep through anything, she's so lazy she'll sometimes get half way up to munch some grass then flop down for another nap. She's been having a lie down in her stable and refused to get up for a fresh haynet and worried people as well, and refused to get up to be turned out and ended up staying in all day. She's managed to make people go and check she's still alive several times, I'm used to it now and just at the lazy pony She's quite a lively one most of the time but when she decides its nap time nothing shifts her

At previous yard the little sh*ts liked to escape and play hide and seek. Once found Mia hiding in a corner in a building its amazing she managed to fit into, and had to go and retrieve the little darlings from 60 acres or so of someone else's land several times, including once in the dark when it was freezing cold and snowing

[jen1]

aww, lol sorry i know i should larf! i went into he barn yesterday to see tom had settled down right under my shire cross while he was eating at the hay bar, tom just lay there snoring,
so rummi wont be seeing santa this year for being norty

[Tuppence]

I was once happily mucking out when YOs builders came running into the barn..' Is that big black horse yours?'

'Yup'

'I think you had better come and prepare yourself'

'Why?'

'Well, love, we have been watching him for a while and we think he might be errr.. well.. he might have passed away'

Down tools, knock over barrow in mad panicky rush, charge across field to find large black cob fast asleep sunbathing!

They do say increasing your heart rate every day is good for you!

[sara]

It is scary. A few years ago an elderly horse at my old yard was pts. I arrived at the yard to see her body, waiting for collection.

It was the first time I had ever seen a dead horse. I went into the field to get Lloyd, and he was lying flat out, groaning. I thought he was dying! He had obviously just pigged himself outself out, and was absolutly fine

[sarahfox]

Norty rummi! no xmas pressies for him then!
We get it quite a lot with all the retirees,I am getting better with it,but I always still have to go and look,and you never lose that awful feeling it gives you.
My friends horse actually did die in the stable ( over 30,and had a heart attck in his sleep) and the groom managed to feed and hay him without noticing!

[Cheryl Walmsley]

Naughty pone!! My OH once went into the field to find a slumber party and ran (in his best predator type stance) into the middle of it for all the horses to leap up and scarper!! He told me he panicked because he didn't know horses could lie down!!! He he :-)

[arabmania]

poor you.
the little toad! they never cease to stop having us worried.!

glad he is ok though and you had a good xmas

[Vicky&Beenie]

its very natural to panic and expect the worse. im the same but its so relieving when there is nothing wrong. they give you a bit of a surprise

[rummi]

I feel i must leap to my boys defense - it wasn't Rummi, but BAILEY playing dead! Rummi would never point his mummy through that , just my naughty little boy Bailey!

Funny really, when i first got Bailey and he looked like a baby-faced yearling, his nickname was quickly 'Baby'.......he's very quickly been renamed 'Hairy Hooligan!'......it suits him! ;D