GG They sound like so much work but I'd love to be able to see and work with horses all the time. I'd be completely useless and have no idea what I was doing but still. I'd stroke them for you lol.
Have you thought about what you're doing when the baby comes with the horses? Tell me if I'm sounding really nosy but can you take baby with you in a sling etc for some of it. Or no...xx
Yes, baby will be able to be with me for pretty much everything bar riding although it already has 4 ponies of it's own waiting for it lol.
I'm very lucky that I've had horses for 36 years and we weren't rich so from 6 years old I shovelled the shit of other peoples horses to pay for keeping my own. It has literally been a lifetime relationship so whilst I wholeheartedly believe that the day I think I know it all, I should give up and get a rocking horse...the years and experience has taught me how to read them. On any given day I can walk into the herd and tell you in seconds what mood the herd are in as a whole and what mood the individual horses are in. This baby will literally grow up surrounded by them. I won't mind if it never wants to follow in my footsteps but honestly, when you feel that first connection with a horse, they get under your skin in a way that's very hard to describe.
It's more special than any other pet relationship. Cats and dogs are predators like us. We naturally fit together. Horses are pray animals. They are flight animals that should run from anythinf whose eyes face frontwards but yet, they choose to trust is so deeply they will literally jump off a cliff if we ask. They are big enough and strong enough to kill us, yet they will blow the gentler of warm kisses on the cheeks of babies. Dan spent 7 years of our relationship not understanding it. Now, he will tell anyone he meets how utterly amazing they are. They really are magical. They are the most sentient creatures and are used in a wide variety of therapies because of the unknown, unrcordable influence they have on people.
Ooops, sorry, went on a bit there but Yes, being scared is perfectly understandable as they are huge and both ends have the ability to hurt but honestly, everyone at some point in Life, should get to experience the feeling they can give you.