Sodding horses. :angry:

We did a bit of loading practice on Monday in the side loading box and Dino was really good so we planned to go the Water Meadows today for a ride.

Get up this morning and the first problem is that Raggy won’t come in from the field. Catch him fine, but a tree came down yesterday and he REFUSED to walk past it. Tried bringing both ponies in together as usual but he just planted and would not move. Bring Dino in (who ignores the tree except when we get quite close to it he jumps and goes OMG THAT TREE DOESN’T LOOK LIKE THAT???? and when I say ‘come on’ he’s like *shrug* ok then) , give him breakfast and then spend 30 mins coaxing the ginger welshie in 3 steps at a time with a bucket of treats. Joy. As we get to the gate he barges past me through it and wrenches my shoulder. Thanks pony.

So we’re running about 30 mins late when I get to trying to load Dino….and he won’t have it. At. All. Will Not. NOPE NOPE NOPE. :wall: We spend 45 mins ‘discussing’ , it and he’s not having it. So we’ll try again… I did manage to get him into someone’s trailer with no fuss so he’s not forgotten that and he got lots of treats for that, but we need to go back and do the side-loader work again and it’s not gone in *sigh* Really frustrating! He managed to smack me in the face at one point and snapped my head back a bit so I have a sore upper spine to add to my wrenched shoulder.

Then on the way home a labrador jumped off a garage roof and nearly landed on my head!!! Dog unharmed. Owner and I had a small heart attack each. It did look a bit surprised about how far it had jumped but honestly, I could do without enormous dogs falling from the sky!!! 😮 😮 😮

Bloody horses, honestly. We only wanted to go on a nice ride!!