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Re: [RC] [RC] Crossing water - Shelley Kerr

 
 
< "Must be a A-rab. They's afeered of water." Well, I never heard of such a thing.>
 
< These
A-rabs are so funny!>
 
<Lisa Salas, The Odd fArm>
 
Laughed when I read your story, but also reminded me of my little A'rab (which is my daughter's horse now).  She was in training and she couldn't stand to have any horses behind her so we were always in the back and following my husbands mutt (suppose to be a quarter horse, but he's a pretty funny looking one if he is! :-)  )  Anyways, we came to the "creek".  The deep, dark, horse eating water monster that my husbands horse insisted on leaping over...every time...no matter what.  Well, my little A'rab was just following the leader and leaped, even with me insisting she walk, and she did a perfect landing into the smack dab middle of the creek, then leaped again for a clean landing on the other side.  Well of course, we had to cross the "water monster" to get home and as usual, the "mutt" leaped thru the creek with Sheara in follow...BUT....this time she didn't make a clean landing on the other side.  The bank was a little higher on that side and she didn't quite leap high enough and ended up landing on her belly with her legs underneath her.  Here I was sitting on top of her debating whether to jump off...or walk off I should say since my feet were in the stirrups which were sitting on the ground...but I was a little slow in my decision and my little A'rab got up and walked on like no big deal.  And ever since her little mishap, (which I know she knows was her mistake)  Sheara will gradually ease her feet into the water and slowly and carefully walk thru to the other side.  This little A'rab is one of our best trail horses.  Yep...them dern A-rabs is afferrd of water!
Shelley
 
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