Deer in the jumping arena.

Normally, our horses are ok with most wildlife that runs around our barn. We get lots of visitors. Moose. Fox. Skunks. You get the idea. Today a deer wandered into the jumping arena. I guess this deer, tiny as she was, was just too scary for the horses today.

There were five of us down in the jumping arena and, we were all doing a course. I went first and right after I jumped the last jump the little deer poked its head right out of the bush by the gait we were riding past. Moon jumped to the side a little but was not terrible.

The next horse that did the course was my friends horse named Gatsby. Their whole course was great and then at the end, the deer poked his head out again and dashed out from the bush. This caused Gatsby to spook and take off toward all of the other horses. Gatsby ran right at Moon's butt and spooked him. Now Gatsby and Moon were both running for their lives.

About half the way around the ring we got Moon and Gatsby stopped. Once they were stopped, we all made loud sounds so that the deer would stop causing trouble and go and find some other place to mess around.

Our horses see deer fairly often so I was suprised by the reaction they had. I guess this deer must of had some killer fangs under that innocent face invbisble to the human eye.

Then again, deer are pretty good jumpers. Maybe they just want to show those horses how it's done.

Comments

[Learninghorses]

I had an experience with a deer once, jumping out of the woods about 3 feet in the air. I'm not sure who reacted more, me with the scream or Precious with her hard stop & 3/4 spin.

[Molly]

Probably only the horses could see the Troll riding the dear. Invisable to us mortal humans, but all moldy skin and sticky fang visable to the pray animals we insist on riding.

[Mega blocks]

The dearest themes of articl's and films are animals!

[risingrainbow]

sounds like a mischevious deer. Maybe the horses were concerned what it would do next! lol