My horse is sore

Well my horse has a sore foot today and it’s all my fault. You see I love to play in the pond so I was.

There isn’t a lot of water in it right now because it has been a rather dry winter but it’s still fun to get in there and splash. I pick my front foot out and hit it down on the water making a big splash over and over and over. When I tire of that I go to the shallow end and roll in the mud. I especially like to get covered in mud after the human girl has brushed me till I shine like a new penny.

Well this time when I was down there playing in the pond my horse decided he was well enough to join in. He said he thought it looked like it might be fun. He said he had never played in the water like that before. Now that is just a shame that some horse’s don’t get to play the way I do. Don’t those humans know that we work just as hard as they do and we like to have some free time and some free space to play ourselves.

Of course there are horse’s out there that do not like water but I have never understood that. My Mousey horse liked to get in the pond and get all wet but he would leave straight out of it when I started splashing around. So anyway there I was playing in the pond and my horse decided he wanted to come play too. The big boy just didn’t know that pond’s have muddy bottoms I guess. Or he did and the thought he could handle it, which he did but at a price. He walked all the way in very slowly then right out the other end. That was a pretty long walk for him. All that mud pulling on his feet made that hurt one sore. Heard the human girl talking to him saying he can do that again if he wants to but he should just go a little ways at a time not all the way in and all the way out. She told him he needed to work up to that but that for now he should stay in the shallow end or maybe just go crossways instead from end to end.
When we went up to my red barn for our dinner from way down at the old barn I did not go off and leave him. I waited for him to notice I was going and then I walked real slow so he could keep up. One time I just stopped and waited for him to catch up. That human girl didn’t rush us. She was just standing up there by the big red barn waiting for us to make it. She said I was a good girl for waiting for him and that she didn’t mind standing there. She said she would stand there as long as it took. That’s how I felt too. I would have done without eating if my horse wasn’t going to eat too. His foot is not hurt bad, it’s just sore. He can walk on it without limping he just isn’t going very fast today. Nothing to worry about he will be fine by morning I’m sure.