Today I had my 3rd unscheduled dismount from Jess (not bad going in nye on 13 years).
Toddling through the forest I see a pony and cart stopped ahead, I stopped 50 yards back and called out just so they knew I was there and waited for them to hop back on and move off, rattling up the track. We began to follow at a walk, no worries. Then about 10 yards along we pass a track on the left that Jess had been longingly looking at in the hopes of a short cut home, as we passed it she refocused ahead and only now notices the cart! drops from under me and spun, half unseated out the left door I simply stepped down off her, I probably could have hung on but the ground was so close and with my face heading for a branch it was easier to step off
Blooming animal, its not like she's never seen a cart before, purely that she hadn't been paying attention to what was ahead!
Toddling through the forest I see a pony and cart stopped ahead, I stopped 50 yards back and called out just so they knew I was there and waited for them to hop back on and move off, rattling up the track. We began to follow at a walk, no worries. Then about 10 yards along we pass a track on the left that Jess had been longingly looking at in the hopes of a short cut home, as we passed it she refocused ahead and only now notices the cart! drops from under me and spun, half unseated out the left door I simply stepped down off her, I probably could have hung on but the ground was so close and with my face heading for a branch it was easier to step off
Blooming animal, its not like she's never seen a cart before, purely that she hadn't been paying attention to what was ahead!