Star's Adventure

Star and Topsy

Star had a little adventure of her own yesterday!  Of course we never have the camera to hand in such scenarios!

We had drifted the girls into the yard to work with them...but somehow I'd been distracted and forgot to close the gate into the boy's field.  I could see Star heading purposefully up that way and I was thinking "uh-oh...oops...too late now".  It doesn't really matter to mix the boys and girls but Topsy is a bit fragile in her old age and doesn't want to take part in charging about.  She's an amazingly wise pony, so although she went a short distance into the boy's field, once she could see ponies running about she came straight back to the yard where she knows we can keep her safe.  Star headed straight out very purposefully and had all the boys run towards her - surrounded by all 6, my goodness was this old lady perfectly in control of the whole situation!  Holding her presence and almost straight away gave Dan a good walloping, followed by Rocky...seeing this put Munchie, Arthur, Bobby and Frodo off completely and they instantly went back to eating.  So Star was perfectly in control of the lot of them.  Off she went exploring the field - finding that the grass actually isn't as green there as it is her normal side of the fence.  By the afternoon she was back in the yard of her own accord waiting to go back to join Topsy!  We never write off our ponies just because they are old!  Sadly it is so normal these days for ponies to be put to sleep just because of their age, but not at P4P - we love the spirit, character and wisdom of our older ponies!

You'll be pleased to hear that Angela is well on her way with her quadbike adventure - she's made it to Silverstone already so we hope that her journey continues to be stress and problem free!


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