Talk about a horse speaking. At 3:44a.m. I awoke to BANG BANG BANG BANG. No, not a gunman in the house. A bored horse banging a feed bucket. Try as I might to ignore it, the sound was just too loud to fall back to sleep. Never mind that the neighbors were probably awake now too, wondering who was breaking down their back door.
So, out to the barn I trudge. I figure, what the heck, I'll throw them some hay and it'll keep them happy till morning. I open the doors to the hay shed, and proceed to grab a couple of flakes. It took a moment to notice I was face to face with THE SKUNK.
I don't think I have ever run so fast. Boy I made a bee line outa there. What power that skunk has! Well, I guess I scared him too, (but not enough to spray-thank God!) so I sauntered back into the shed for the flakes of hay. I was begging Scottie to scare the skunk away. He didn't seem to care, he was just happy to have something to chew on besides an empty feed bucket.
Ramblings of a backyard horse mom who listens to and learns from her horses.
