horse rescue

tonight on the way back from the tack shop closing down sale, Fay in the back said, there's a horse with it's foot stuck in wire.....

we went round the roundabout and parked up and sure enough, there's a horse with it's foot stuck trhough some sheep wire (the other side of the fence in the next field were sheep. sheep wire is small squares of wire).

Gaynor and I piled out of the car to go see if we could sort the horse out. It, thank goodness, wasn't panicking but clearly had been there a while.

it had put it's foot through the fence and when it pulled itback, a length of wire went between the shoe and the foot - that is a seriously tight place for wire to get stuck.

So we pulled the wire, and at the same time pushed the foot the other way, or rather, I held the foot whilst gaynor pulled the wire and I pulled the wire. Durin gthis, the horse was busy nuzzling our necks and nibbling my sunglasses - a total sweetie, thank goodness.

We got the foot free and pulled the foot back and in got it stuck on the next strand up so we had to do it again .....aaarrgh.

but we got that free as well, and it didn't tank off, dint us in the head, just stood there and let us check it over, pick it's foot up, check the fetlock for injuries. thank goodness there weren't any, it could have been really nasty if the horse had panicked, or spent the night rubbing it's fetlock off the wire to try and free it's foot.

and then as we turned round, a fire engine pulled up =- it seems someone passing before us had called the police, who in turn had called the fire brigade and sent them to free it.

I think we did the better job - we didn't have to cut the wire, and of course know about handling horses.

So we're chuffed with ourselves. and anothe passer by went and knocked on doors until she found someone who knew the owner, and that person turned up after the excitement had died down.

So that was the excitement.

Oh yes, and I did spend some money in the closing down sale ... a pelham for £13 instead of £26, a newmarket wool excercise sheet for £14 instead of £28, and a couple of bits and pieces. Gaynor was pissed with me = she'd picked up the excercise sheet but put it back down as she'd assumed it would be too expensive, instead of asking it's price. I said, tough ....