11 of the most annoying horse things ever
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We all know how rewarding horses are. Don’t we? But let’s address those tiny irritations that these beasties can also bring and ask ourselves why they always have to perversely do the very thing you’re hoping they won’t at the very moment they shouldn’t do it? And how can it be that when you’re in a hurry they — and the kit you’re dealing with — just won’t cooperate?
These are a handful of the most niggly everyday irritations that seem to crop up all too often.
1. Why is it that when you’re picking out his feet, the clod refuses to come out in one? It looks like it will. You jam the hoof pick right in there. But no, it comes out in tiny pieces and you’re scraping away for about 47 seconds – on each damn foot.
2. How is it that even when you don’t touch anything at the yard, you get home to find you’ve broken a nail and have grime so deeply embedded you need surgical tools to remove it?
3. Your friend’s horse has no manners. No, it’s not OK for her horse to rub its sweaty head up and down your clean clothes! And no, it’s not OK for it to go rifling through your pockets with its nose. And certainly not with its teeth. But she thinks its “cute”.
4. You’re in a hurry to load and need to put on a tail bandage. Why must it always become your horse’s life’s work to clamp his tail down as hard as is humanly (equinely?) possible? What’s with that?
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