...well, a few less than that after colic, laminitis and today's escapade!
I brought the boys over to the house to have their feet trimmed. They love to mow the meadow which is our very small front lawn.
Everything was going fine and Trevor had finished Ziggy and was working on Mattie when we heard a terrible crash from the bottom of the lawn (about 20 feet away). We all jumped and stared at Ziggy heaving himself out of trouble. He had stood upon, and broken in half, the manhole cover to the cesspit. And the offending leg had fallen in.
Fortunately (?!), the cess pit is full and due to be emptied, so his leg went in to water. Well, water-ish . He leapt away in a great palaver (and a great stink) and ran to me to be soothed. Trevor and I checked him over but despite the jagged edges of the old metal manhole cover he was undamaged. Trevor went back to trimming Mattie. I washed Ziggy - yuk!
He was a bit slow going back to the field, and I think he might have pulled a muscle in his bum heaving himself out of the sh*t, but all in all things could have been much worse.
Of course we now have to get our cesspit repaired before the dogs fall in it....
I brought the boys over to the house to have their feet trimmed. They love to mow the meadow which is our very small front lawn.
Everything was going fine and Trevor had finished Ziggy and was working on Mattie when we heard a terrible crash from the bottom of the lawn (about 20 feet away). We all jumped and stared at Ziggy heaving himself out of trouble. He had stood upon, and broken in half, the manhole cover to the cesspit. And the offending leg had fallen in.
Fortunately (?!), the cess pit is full and due to be emptied, so his leg went in to water. Well, water-ish . He leapt away in a great palaver (and a great stink) and ran to me to be soothed. Trevor and I checked him over but despite the jagged edges of the old metal manhole cover he was undamaged. Trevor went back to trimming Mattie. I washed Ziggy - yuk!
He was a bit slow going back to the field, and I think he might have pulled a muscle in his bum heaving himself out of the sh*t, but all in all things could have been much worse.
Of course we now have to get our cesspit repaired before the dogs fall in it....