By now most everyone has seen this photo. It made its rounds via email awhile back. And, you've probably also seen the photo of the mare that liked water so much and got stuck trying to swim in a big water trough.
I've been talking to some friends lately about ways their horses have tried to get their attention....one young horse was playing around in a field, reared up and got its front leg hung in the 'Y' of a tree....another decided it would be fun to roll under the fence, but got stuck...then there was one that was playing 'the whisker game' over a fence with a neighbor and impaled its chest on the gate hanger.
We built our new place with 4 plank fencing and rounded corners...plastic troughs...etc...but our horses still manage to injure themselves. The other night my 2Yo Pally mare came in with blood running down her leg...it appeared to be a puncture, but on closer examination was just a bad bump. I was thankful for that, but have no clue how it happened.
My husband says horses have one goal in life...to kill themselves. And, honestly, sometimes I think he is right!!! Horses just do the darnedest things, dont they?
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