🚀 go-pugleaf

Before I met my SO, he used to have a grey mare called Silhouette, Arab X
Haflinger, and at the time there was a craze for those cheapo metal detectors.
Apparently the whole family were out in the fields complete with the 
detector, and when they were busy rumageing in the grass for something they
thought they had detected, Silhoutte picked up the detector by grasping the 
handle between her teeth and wandered off accross the field with it happily
bleeping to itself.  I would *love* to have seen this!

For those of you who remember baby Non from last March (now a strapping 
great weanling!), her favourite toy was when some kind soul threw an old
feather pillow over the fence.  I arrived the next morning to find the sad
remains of the pillow and a happy fluffy foaly covered in identically 
coloured fluffy downy chicken feathers.  To complete the picture, when 
I had dusted the feathers off I picked up her feet and found one of Mari's 
molar teeth which she must have just shed sticking into the sole of one of
Non's feet.  Talk about horse feathers and hen's teeth...

Of course Non's REAL favourite plaything is Rickie, my old gelding.  Nothing
else, even Mari, comes close as an ideal playmate.  She was SOOOOOO 
disapointed when Rickie got laminitis in the summer and wouldn't play with
her *despite* all her best attempts at springing at him and rearing up and
bashing him on the tips of his ears.  Their favourite time was when there 
was a new pony put in the field next door and they BOTH jumped in and spent
the day chasing to poor thing round and round.  Mari stayed behind, being 
a well mannered sort of horse, but poor Non was ever so thirsty by the time 
I got there in the evening to return her to her mum.

I guess I'll have to post a bio too, or Terri won't forgive me ;-)

Esther
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