Musings

My horse is starting to scare me. I ran out to see Vento yesterday, and take him a bucket of treats. The barn manager caught me, and was laughing as he told me this story.

Vento has learned how to undress himself. He apparently is sick of wearing winter blankets, and each morning Mark would arrive to feed and find the blankets in a wad on the floor of the stall, and Vento happily naked.

On Monday Mark arrived in time to watch the process. First Vento dropped his head, and undid the front hooks of the blanket with his teeth. Next he laid down in the stall, and began to wiggle, thus sliding out of the blankets, like a snake shedding it’s skin. When he had the blankets down in the middle of his back he stood up, the blankets slide off his hindquarters, and he daintily stepped out of the straps.

I went and bought some clips so I can keep him from unhooking the front. I think it’s funny, but if he caught caught he might get hurt. I keep telling him spring is coming, but I guess it’s not coming fast enough for the Iberian Prince.

It was late so I turned him out in a paddock where he ran and bucked and ran and bucked. Hopefully he’ll have some of the bucks out of his system before my lesson today.

Melinda

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