Things that want to eat Horses

[hellison]

Yep, more horse stuff, sorry. It's about all I do these days so it's that or more moaning about avoiding work on the tenders. Which is pretty much what this is.

Took Ziggy out for a hack this morning, there's lots of pretty quiet wee country roads around us so its usually good to potter around on. She is very good with traffic, and when with another horse, very little bothers her at all. When on her own however, she gets a bit SUPER VIGILANT and things that she'd normally never look twice at suddenly become Horse Eating Monsters.

Today, the world was full of them.

First part of the hack is down the main road. Lorries, vans, cars whizzing past. All fine.

A sign outside new houses (that she has passed several times with no problem) - HORSE EATING MONSTER GET AWAY FROM IT QUICK

Grates/manhole covers - traps for the unuwary horse. To be avoided at ALL COSTS

Bins - suspicious, keep a close eye on them

Bin lorry - huge, clanking, bin eating monster. Obviously a friend to horses therefore and absolutely nothing to worry about

Sheep moving in a field - OMGOMG! WHAT IS IT? DOES IT WANT TO EAT ME?? RUN AWAAAAY!

A roll of fencing wire EVIL EVIL EVIL! HELP HELP! Quick get to the other side of the road don'tmakemegonearit!!

Flags (from the 12th) waving from every lamp post thro small village - no problem

Lorry with rattly trailer - fine

Cyclist whizzing past down hill - fine

Dog barking from behind a fence AAARRRGHHH (a full four feet off the ground spook at that one)

Cows - possibly monsters. Keep a VERY WATCHFUL EYE on them

Red Hedge cutting sign on road - EVIL!

Blue line painted on road - REALLY EVIL! HELP! DON'T STAND ON IT!!

Hedge cutting machine - AAARGGH MONSTER RUN AWAAAAAAY (to be fair it was behind the hedge so she couldn't really see it, just the big arm thing making really strange noises)

Red post office van - meh, fine

Bit of newspaper on side of road - GOING TO EAT ME! HELP!

Dog in middle of road barking - wary, but fine (then it ran away)

Dogs behind fences barking - RUN AWAAAAAAY

Wall painted blue on top - possibly EVIL! Beware!

Stone lions on gateposts - fine

Stone lions on ground - EVIL WAITING TO POUNCE! Do Not Approach!!

A single leaf lying on the ground - DANGER! KEEP AWAY!

We did make it back fine, despite it being a more eventful ride than usual. And she was very brave going past the scary hedge cutting machine. Some of the rest of it tho... why the SHEEP? And blue things. Blue things BAD in Ziggyland. Unless they are bin lorries. Bin lorries FRIEND.

Still, it gets me out in the fresh air ;p

Comments

[thipe.livejournal.com]

Horses: Very little brane.

[hellison.livejournal.com]

So very very little. I'd love to know why blue in particular is the colour of EVIL tho!

[adelpha.livejournal.com]

I may have laughed at the image of Ziggy jumping at the dog, all four feet pinwheeling in the air as he tries to run away.

[hellison.livejournal.com]

It is a bit like that ;p There is a lot of CLATTERING when she hits the ground again!

[http://users.livejournal.com/_unhurt_/]

ahaha. i was just about to comment to note that ziggy has the pretty but not the smart.

[hellison.livejournal.com]

I think she dedicates all the little brain power she has to trying to constantly escape from where ever she's put, so has not much left for distinguishing between paint on the road and SNAKES OMGHLEPRUN

[lazy-hoor.livejournal.com]

Your horse - even more of a weirdo idiot than my cat (Bonnie).

"What's this? A fox! Must chase! Begone, vulpine menace!"

"What's that? A bag of pasta on the floor? Aaaaargh! Run awaaaaay!"

How does Ziggy feel about clowns?

[hellison.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure she's ever seen one, but they often carry buckets so she'd probably be initially in favour, until she realised there was no food in them ;p

[lazy-hoor.livejournal.com]

Hehehe!

I thought Clyde was the smart one until earlier this evening - he "hid" behind two blades of grass, seemingly under the impression that Bonnie couldn't see him.

Love the icon btw.

[hellison.livejournal.com]

heh lana does that, despite being very very white, and very very visible! she never stops trying tho ;p

Miv made the icon years ago, it seems very apt today!

[http://users.livejournal.com/_unhurt_/]

"What's that? A bag of pasta on the floor? Aaaaargh! Run awaaaaay!"

... cats are kind of special, i begin to realise.

[lazy-hoor.livejournal.com]

She's quite adept at giving the DVD tray a hiding should it dare to eject while she's near it.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_unhurt_/]

well. if it will threaten her like that...

[immoral-crow.livejournal.com]

Ah, poor ziggy. It's so hard to know what's really a threat...

[being-here.livejournal.com]

Arse. That was me. Obvs.

[hellison.livejournal.com]

I gathered ;p

but yes. Bin lorries - friend; fence wire - DEMON.
So hard to tell the true threat ;p