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arabianrio
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England
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 Posted - 27 Nov 2011 : 12:01:35 PM
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Slightly different but costly lessons learnt since having new boy:
1 Don't leave ANYTHING hanging up, leaning near or by the stable door.- it will be moved and DESTROYED eg headcollar, bridle, lead rope, brooms, bags of bedding.
2 Don't leave ANYTHING hanging up,or on shelving too near the inside half closed tack room stable door- it will be moved (ie picked up and DESTROYED eg
First aid box....various rugs, OUR BEST EXPENSIVE SMOKER..(picked up by its cover and flung across the floor)
3. When you tie him up with a quick release knot - he WILL chew the rope and knot and he WILL escape.
4.Don't throw rugs/towels, cloths numnahs etc. over stable door (however short the period) they will be removed (and DESTROYED).
Having used my stables for three different horses at various times in my life - never has life been so interesting or as frustrating as with our Laddie  methinks we have a giraffe!!! |
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Edited by - arabianrio on 27 Nov 2011 12:04:37 PM |
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Vik1
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Posted - 27 Nov 2011 : 12:36:51 PM
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Arabianrio I can totally relate to all of that with my 2yo!
My tip with regards to toothpaste is..do not wipe your mouth afterwards with a towel and then use towel to dry your face...I have discovered your eyes can feel minty fresh..a very weird sensation! |
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arabianrio
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England
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Posted - 27 Nov 2011 : 4:36:04 PM
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| but he is now 13 ----but still a delight! |
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Pop
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England
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Posted - 29 Nov 2011 : 12:03:50 PM
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Never expect the expected, expect that things will be quite difference than how they have been before and you have come to expect.
October 2011
Mats - "you ever try to shutting that stable door with me inside and I'll show you how to make firewood out of a stable, got it!"
Me "OK, what we will do it leave it open and let you have a small corral so that you can go in and out as you please, is that a good compromise?"
Mats "You can try that if you like and I will push your fencing down, do swishy heads, scowl and be generally very very grumpy indeed; and if you let any human near me I will show them my teeths".
November 2011 - Mornings
Me "Mats please go out, have a run around, eat lovely grass"
Mats "Nope, staying in my "suite".
Me "Please Mats, go play with your friends"
Mats "Nope, and anyway, they are not my friends, they are my servants, as are you".
Me - repeat begging, continued failure, go round back, lean against bum and push.
Mats - looks round at me and sighs.
November 2011 - Evenings
Mats - "Yo, human, get your a**e over here and let me in before your fencing is firewood. Have you cleaned my 'suite'? Hurry, Let me in, let me in (Doing major swishy snake heads)"
Me "Coming Mats"
I'm confused. Flat refusal to stay in, now flat refusal to go out. I'm a slave. |
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Pasch
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Posted - 29 Nov 2011 : 10:32:19 PM
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| Pop...HRM is feeling the cold?Don't you just love when they do the head swishing! |
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Pop
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England
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Posted - 29 Nov 2011 : 10:49:32 PM
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| Yea, do love the swishy head stuff - spolit madam she is |
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sab2
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Posted - 08 Dec 2011 : 12:27:14 PM
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Always make sure when getting a very hot sweet mince pie out of the oven you use oven close, and if like me you don,t please make sure the cream is near at hand to stick your burnt fingers into   otherwise you end up with 3 blistered throbbing fingers . |
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Pop
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England
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Posted - 08 Dec 2011 : 1:56:09 PM
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Ah Ha, cooking
Make sure when leaving the supermarket the bag holding the mice pies doesnt split? |
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Pop
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England
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Posted - 08 Dec 2011 : 2:02:54 PM
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 , When you want to type mince pies, make sure you include the 'N', otherwise it will say 'mice pies'. I meant mince pies, or did I? JRT says she will go with the mice pies. |
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Ennik
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United Kingdom
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Posted - 08 Dec 2011 : 2:05:51 PM
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| Oh Pop! You are awful ..... but I like you! |
Edited by - Ennik on 08 Dec 2011 2:08:17 PM |
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