:sigh: bad behaviour

Fi's been a tad difficult this week. She managed to take a chunk out of my mother as she being led in during the week. And in general has been causing chaos.

How much of it is down to being sore and achy, we just don't know. They've tried bringing her in by herself - and she was even worse.

It is as if she wants one of the others to go ahead into the farm yard and just throws an "oh My God" into the picture to achieve that.

I've finally given in and went and got her a "calming" supplement today, but it will take a while to see if it has any effect.

I lunged and long reined her in Saturday, despite high winds, and she was fine. I am sure the lack of work can't have helped her state of mind :( The upside is that she looked relatively sound.

She was shod this morning, which should help as well..... but she was still a complete pain coming in. She stopped part way up and then backed up at speed into the other two (who got out of the way - understandably).

In the meantime, it looks like my old guy (35 this year !) has her sussed. While she was being shod, she was tied up outside his stable and proceeded to pull menacing faces at him. Rather than move back from the door (as Rosie might - Rosie is right next door to her all the time), Red seemed to take a moment to think, eyed up the situation, and then grabbed the loose tail on her headcollar in his mouth. He held her there, with her head to one side, for about 4 or 5 minutes. She appeared not to be able to move. When he let go, she stood back and gave him his space.

He did again, a bit later.

It was at the same time both funny and an outstanding piece of mare management :)