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Saturday was a glorious day, blue skies, bright late-autumn colours on the beeches in the valley, more than a little glorious for a walk to the yard.
( witness )
It was also the perfect day to go for a ride, no doubt.![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
sleepsy_mouse brought in Donk to do a little schooling with him, he was his usual self while she did some groundwork so she bridled him up and hopped on. After two steps she jumped off again because he was actually shaking. We took his tack off and put him back into his box where he proceeded to lie down flat out and groan, still shaking ( not quite a shiver or a tremble, but a very clear shake ) from head to toe. It was a bit scary.
By the time the vet arrived ( out of hours call-out time again ) he was back on his feet and we'd been walking him in the school for a while. His head was low and his breathing was rapid but he wasn't as bad as he had been before. He did have an impaction but also his temperature was a little high and she thought there may be an underlying infection as he has no history of colic.
So that rather scuppered our riding plans. He was a lot brighter by the time we left, however, and after an evening at our friend's house, just stepping out for their village's locally famous firework display, he was positively perky.
Today he was pretty much back to normal so he went out - albeit in a more snuggly rug than normal - and seemed quite happy in his field. Small Pony was most unimpressed aboutsleepsy_mouse giving someone else attention and expressed this with an amazingly dynamic display of airs above the ground interspersed with highly collected trot, passage, spins and circuits of flat out gallop. I think we can be cautiously hopeful that he is beginning to feel a little bit better. It's so great to see him like this having been ill one way or another since June. Two sickly ponies, is perhaps too many to have at once.
Zorro remains, as yet, undaunted by whatever curse afflicts us, so the two of us went out for an adventure this afternoon under a much more grey and gloomy sky.
( A couple of pictures )
It was a pleasant, easygoing kind of a ride, but I misjudged the timing a little so we ended up heading up the lane in rapidly encroaching gloom, by the time we reached the yard it was almost totally dark. Certainly a good time to have a lot of hi-vis on.
( witness )
It was also the perfect day to go for a ride, no doubt.
sleepsy_mouse brought in Donk to do a little schooling with him, he was his usual self while she did some groundwork so she bridled him up and hopped on. After two steps she jumped off again because he was actually shaking. We took his tack off and put him back into his box where he proceeded to lie down flat out and groan, still shaking ( not quite a shiver or a tremble, but a very clear shake ) from head to toe. It was a bit scary.By the time the vet arrived ( out of hours call-out time again ) he was back on his feet and we'd been walking him in the school for a while. His head was low and his breathing was rapid but he wasn't as bad as he had been before. He did have an impaction but also his temperature was a little high and she thought there may be an underlying infection as he has no history of colic.
So that rather scuppered our riding plans. He was a lot brighter by the time we left, however, and after an evening at our friend's house, just stepping out for their village's locally famous firework display, he was positively perky.
Today he was pretty much back to normal so he went out - albeit in a more snuggly rug than normal - and seemed quite happy in his field. Small Pony was most unimpressed about
sleepsy_mouse giving someone else attention and expressed this with an amazingly dynamic display of airs above the ground interspersed with highly collected trot, passage, spins and circuits of flat out gallop. I think we can be cautiously hopeful that he is beginning to feel a little bit better. It's so great to see him like this having been ill one way or another since June. Two sickly ponies, is perhaps too many to have at once.Zorro remains, as yet, undaunted by whatever curse afflicts us, so the two of us went out for an adventure this afternoon under a much more grey and gloomy sky.
( A couple of pictures )
It was a pleasant, easygoing kind of a ride, but I misjudged the timing a little so we ended up heading up the lane in rapidly encroaching gloom, by the time we reached the yard it was almost totally dark. Certainly a good time to have a lot of hi-vis on.