Found some more pics so here are the next lot of animals:
Maddy is a TB mare who I have on lease until the end of the year. She is madly in love with Bert, who belongs to a grazer here. The only time I've come off her was when she made a beeline for him and did an impressive last minute spin that sent me onto her neck and into my specialty dismount (forward over the right shoulder). Then madam proceeded to show no interest at all in him and went straight over to the juiciest looking patch of grass.
Amber (on the right, Dee is on the left) is a lovely chestnut crossbred mare I had for about 18 months. Unfortunately I lost her to colic on Waitangi Day, 2007. Found out just before then that she was about 26 years old. Not bad for an old girl. She was so much fun to ride, we used to cruise around the farm bareback heaps. I rode her up until about 8 months before she colicked.
This is Mera, our first cat (and if she had her way, she'd be the only cat). She is grumpy, a bit fat, hates being cuddled and likes to sleep on a hay bale. She also will lick her left front leg if you scratch her just in front of her tail. For a grumpy fat cat she is surprisingly good at catching birds and mice. Maybe they think she's not worth worrying about?! We got Mera from the pound in mid-2005, she was on the verge of being put to sleep as she'd been in there so long. She turned up pregnant and with ringworm (keep telling her she was just a grotty slapper when we met her), and when we first saw her she was quite a bit slimmer... oops.
Sunny (Sundance Kid) is the opposite to Mera - he will do anything for a cuddle and would be the ultimate demo cat. You can do anything with him and he loves to follow us around the farm, "helping" move the cows, watching me do stuff with the horses, getting in the way of horse hooves (had a few close calls), and he also loves having a nosey in cars. He is petrified of the chickens. He often falls asleep like this with his tongue half hanging out. He's only little still, about a year old and tries to get Mera to play - and fails. She just practices her boxing skills on him instead.
Maddy is a TB mare who I have on lease until the end of the year. She is madly in love with Bert, who belongs to a grazer here. The only time I've come off her was when she made a beeline for him and did an impressive last minute spin that sent me onto her neck and into my specialty dismount (forward over the right shoulder). Then madam proceeded to show no interest at all in him and went straight over to the juiciest looking patch of grass.
Amber (on the right, Dee is on the left) is a lovely chestnut crossbred mare I had for about 18 months. Unfortunately I lost her to colic on Waitangi Day, 2007. Found out just before then that she was about 26 years old. Not bad for an old girl. She was so much fun to ride, we used to cruise around the farm bareback heaps. I rode her up until about 8 months before she colicked.
This is Mera, our first cat (and if she had her way, she'd be the only cat). She is grumpy, a bit fat, hates being cuddled and likes to sleep on a hay bale. She also will lick her left front leg if you scratch her just in front of her tail. For a grumpy fat cat she is surprisingly good at catching birds and mice. Maybe they think she's not worth worrying about?! We got Mera from the pound in mid-2005, she was on the verge of being put to sleep as she'd been in there so long. She turned up pregnant and with ringworm (keep telling her she was just a grotty slapper when we met her), and when we first saw her she was quite a bit slimmer... oops.
Sunny (Sundance Kid) is the opposite to Mera - he will do anything for a cuddle and would be the ultimate demo cat. You can do anything with him and he loves to follow us around the farm, "helping" move the cows, watching me do stuff with the horses, getting in the way of horse hooves (had a few close calls), and he also loves having a nosey in cars. He is petrified of the chickens. He often falls asleep like this with his tongue half hanging out. He's only little still, about a year old and tries to get Mera to play - and fails. She just practices her boxing skills on him instead.
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