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16 October 2014

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A Potential Disaster

Think of the situation... 6.45am, it's dark, it's cold, it is not snowing yet, but the road is icy as I lead Thorf down the road to the field, the neighbour's postbox jumps out of the dark and frightens me yet again (well not really, I have got used to it being there). I trundle back up the 100 yards... um! no little ponies greeting me as is often the case. I didn't think much of it and reckoned they were on the top part of the field behind the sheds sheltering... nothing unusual there.

Anyway, I clean out the stable, refill haynet and water, then go to dump the muck on the dung heap. Imagine, to my horror I see a gate (not on hinges) partially open (thought it was tied). It was Shetland foal size wide. The air was a little blue as I didn't relish the idea of rounding up two ponies in the dark, let alone trying to catch the beggars... which self respecting native pony is going to come back to a muddy field when there is a lot of grass elsewhere? I go into the field and immediately go ankle deep in squelchy muddy soil where the old dung heap used to be and had been filled in. I called. No sign. My heart sank. I called again.

To my complete and utter relief I saw 4 eyes reflecting back at me in the light of my head torch from up the field. I knew they were the little ones... too high for a cat. One set of eyes was just a little lower than the other and the two ponies looked at me out of the darkness wondering what all the fuss was about and why did this silly human wake them up. Phew!


Posted on A Northern Journal at 10:35

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I often wonder what animals really think of the strange things that humans do. Your photos are great, ANJ, gorgeous little ponies!

Jill from EK


I can't believe how much His Prince-ness has grown!! He's HUGE! Where's the first place your peedie ponies would have come if they *had* escaped? Our farm ~ Mr. Highland Ponly probably told them alllllll about the molassas nuts we have in the stable! Only we don't have them yet... Don't tell "T" haha!

Moo from Hoose


i'm so glad they wern't far away, still, very worrying for you though :-/ My friends shetland used to be a real escape artist and could somehow climb his way over a five bar gate....i think he even got onto thats life at one point (not on his own of course, he wasn't that good lol) and he was a monkey for letting our horses out of the field opposite, which never went down well with the greensman of the cricket pitch next door to our field lol

tanith from lewis


that's a lovely feeling, isn't it NJ ... That complete wash of calm, relief, happiness, and the feeling that all's well - I've had it frequently when I've thought I've been missing ducks, imagining exactly how difficult its going to be to find them, looking at panic a half hour up the road, and then suddenly found them a few metres away from exactly where they should be ... :-)

soaplady from ahhh that's ok then ... :-)


" Just checking out this world of ours ...nothing to get worried about." Have you found another method of securing the gate?

Plaid from Down Under




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