oh poor Lightning! It does sound like he got off most lucky, considering what could have been!
Are you still going to bring him to Sask? I was so happy for you when I read that.. that is truly what you want and if it's feasible, you should do it :)
I thought long and hard about it - was this a sign not to bring him?
But I think, no. This solidified in my mind that I need to bring him out here with me. The Lightning I knew would never in a million years have attempted something this stupid. But he's always been the kind of horse who loves and needs to work, so I don't think retirement has sat all that well with him. According to my sister, he's pretty desperate for attention whenever people come around, and especially when they're up in the paddocks for the winter.
So yes, I'm still bringing him. I think he needs interaction and work for his mental wellbeing, and I certainly owe him that and more.
Oy freaking vey, horse! We once had a horse try to jump out the same kind of panel gate because the other horses were terrorizing him. Took 3 Mexicans and an hour to get him out of it afterwards. And it's TERRIFYING. So glad Lightning's relatively ok!
That makes two of us. I don't know how long it took us to free him, but it all happened pretty fast. I was out there in less than a minute from when it happened, Matt even faster. We cut the panels free right away and it couldn't have been more than 5 minutes before Lightning managed to jump clear. I still maintain that the only way that happened was with sheer luck.
Yeah. And you know the worst part? You know how a person feels so guilty after something like this - if only I had tied him somewhere else, I never should have gone to get my keys, etc? Try as I may I just don't think I would change anything about the situation.
I still maintain it was a safe place to tie a horse who didn't want to stand still and was leaning on a fence. He was supervised except when I went for the keys, a short period of time in which I wouldn't have dreamed he'd do something so retarded.
The only thing I might have changed is that I maybe should have just set him free in the paddock until he calmed down. But then he would have just run around, crying like an idiot, and in retrospect may very well have just jumped out of the paddock anyway, something he could have easily done.
So it's weird, but as awful as the situation was, there's not much I would have done different, and I would still tie a horse to that pole.
LOL, this can definitely serve as a case file that horses are unpredicatble! I still can't
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geeze, what is it with out horses doing really stupid things lately?
I have to say I feel the same way about doing standing wraps (actually wrote a post much like this one last week... and little did I know it was just to gear me up and make sure my bandaging skills were up to par, because the Griffster will require mucho bandaging after his surgery and for the next 6 weeks)
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Are you still going to bring him to Sask? I was so happy for you when I read that.. that is truly what you want and if it's feasible, you should do it :)
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But I think, no. This solidified in my mind that I need to bring him out here with me. The Lightning I knew would never in a million years have attempted something this stupid. But he's always been the kind of horse who loves and needs to work, so I don't think retirement has sat all that well with him. According to my sister, he's pretty desperate for attention whenever people come around, and especially when they're up in the paddocks for the winter.
So yes, I'm still bringing him. I think he needs interaction and work for his mental wellbeing, and I certainly owe him that and more.
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I still maintain it was a safe place to tie a horse who didn't want to stand still and was leaning on a fence. He was supervised except when I went for the keys, a short period of time in which I wouldn't have dreamed he'd do something so retarded.
The only thing I might have changed is that I maybe should have just set him free in the paddock until he calmed down. But then he would have just run around, crying like an idiot, and in retrospect may very well have just jumped out of the paddock anyway, something he could have easily done.
So it's weird, but as awful as the situation was, there's not much I would have done different, and I would still tie a horse to that pole.
LOL, this can definitely serve as a case file that horses are unpredicatble! I still can't ( ... )
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I have to say I feel the same way about doing standing wraps (actually wrote a post much like this one last week... and little did I know it was just to gear me up and make sure my bandaging skills were up to par, because the Griffster will require mucho bandaging after his surgery and for the next 6 weeks)
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