Tate is Tate and shall ever be Tate. He has good days and bad days. He was great Friday and Saturday and then yesterday on Sunday it took me ten minutes to get him from the field up to the barn paddock. Why you ask? Did it take that long? Well…
Silly me put the Easter Flag up BEFORE taking Tate up. What an idiot I am right? Pony was halfway across the field coming toward me before he screeched to a stop. The front field is right by the front gate soooo oops.
So even though I was loaded with carrots and usually Tate runs right to me to come to the field gate, I had to walk out and get him. Then once we got out of the gate (nearer to the flag) he whirled and tried to run away. It is a flag, pony. A GARDEN FLAG.
So then we commence to walk up the drive. Which is a LONG way to walk a pony who is scared of the flag behind him (as well as the damn geese in the pond, they flew in the field by the house one day and now Tate is scared of them as well). Whatever pony.
We got up by the house and Scaredy-Tate screeched to a halt again. Oh yeah I just put an American Flag up by the front door. Oops again right? We got by that and he jumped sideways again (his little antics are not as bad as they sound I have no issues holding onto him and he doesn’t run me over so it is just annoying not dangerous).
We got up by the garage and you guessed it. SCREECH TO A HALT.
By then we were almost to the barn. I dumped him through the gate to the paddock and was like ugh go pony go. Staring warily at the white fences inside the dog yard (it is right next to his paddock) he wandered off to stand and watch everything move. (Nothing moved). On Saturday morning I literally walked him up to the field and back with a loose lead line…letting him graze there and back. NOT yesterday. HA
And guess what? Tate is lame again. Sigh. (I am sure it is an abscess again but Tate is such a drama queen. I have been putting him out front for 2-3 hours a day but won’t today as it would take three days to get him up there, what with the lameness AND the spookiness). I will text farrier later today.
Everyone else have a good weekend?? We had glorious spring weather all weekend, then we had a doozy of a thunderstorm last night that woke me up it was so loud. Tate lived through it and ate his grain this am. So today may be a good day (except for the lame bit)! UGH MONDAY again.
Fat Buckskin in a Little Suit 
oh Tater Tot. he needs pony xanax.
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Yikes lady!! I have never been around such a scaredy pants pony before, sheesh! That would drive me bonkers!!!
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Oh Tate!
Agreed with the pony xanax comment lol
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Oh Tate. Its a headache you just don’t need.
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Sorry Tate, but you gotta go…
And yeah. Jamp is exactly like that, except that he will run you over if he’s particularly afraid because he forgets you’re there. Or pull the lead through your hands. You asked earlier how I showed him. Well… it was definitely a problem. He always has to do a warm up class. He will scoot and run in the first class no matter where you go. Just the first one the first day. He’s usually ok after that. But he’ll probably swap off at a scary plant on the ground, or a shadow… It was pretty frustrating. My trainer said, he’s a capable, nice horse, but he will always let you down when you need him not to. And that’s the best description of him. It why I stopped showing him. He was still sound enough to do the 3′ but it wasn’t worth it anymore.
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I cannot imagine showing a horse like Tate (or Jamp either sorry :)) Remus is spooky on his own but mostly it is umbrellas or motorized golf carts that get him. 🙂
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He needed a lunge every morning. Got ridden in the ring most mornings if they let you. Perfect prep. It was a task. It was a little easier when he was a jumper, since it didn’t matter if he spooked as long as I could get him to the jumps. But my next one will NOT be like that!
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Oh Tate!!
Out of curiosity – why did you hang the American flag? Is that a common thing to do in the US?
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We do hang American Flags around Memorial Day and so on. I had one that we left at our old house and I have other flags I hang but i needed a new flagpole and it came with the American one so I figured why not hang it early 🙂 I also like the look of it hanging. What I really want is a British one too so I can hang both outside (My hubby is a Brit)! 🙂 And Tate..he is totally normal this am 🙂 (Well as normal as he gets!)
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Scared but ADORABLE.
And your home is beautiful.
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thank you! and this morning not only did Tate eat all his grain (all handful of it) but is out eating hay in the paddock. Miracles 😉
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Oh Tate…facepalm. So unpatriotic to spook at the American flag! Maybe he identifies as Canadian?
But holy goodness…your place looks ah-ma-zing
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It’s a good thing he’s cute 🙂 I love your farm, and wow have you been working hard, it looks even better than the last pictures I saw!
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Oh Tate.. maybe you weren’t made for this world.
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maybe he is an alien??
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