Hello world!

17/07/2008 by admin.

Hi there! I am Bru the Bear and I am the resident Security Guard at Highland Wildrides. I have been kindly offered through the medium of “Dog Whispering” to pour my many observations out on this blog for you so that we can share the excitement and mayhem of Highland Wildrides.

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The most newsworthy event of the week so far has to be my Mum’s newest craze of riding horses in head collars. Now those of you who already know me will be aware that I feel it necessary to keep an eye on those horses when they are around the humans, and as far as I am concerned you can’t have enough leads and collars on them. I have seen what they do to each other in the field and I have heard what they talk about, and I think my Mum is just far too nice to them! However she does love them a lot and this week she has decided that it is not fair to shove cold metal in the mouth of her best friends and crank it around until they start or stop. She has decided that she will ride them in those Monty Roberts Dually head collars. At the moment she is only experimenting while she trains them by using them when she rides herself, but she swears it will catch on and that soon everyone will be doing it!?!

Now I have to say that I am awfully glad that she has never tried putting a bridle on me (although there are constant jokes about my size making me lend well to trekking should a horse not turn up to work) as having a bit in your mouth would make even the nicest of creatures uncomfortable, but I am afraid that this may end in tears (or plaster casts). I would be interested in hearing about anyone elses experiences whilst riding in a head collar and whether or not you recommend it?

So far she has ridden the Fox who loves to trot and it slowed her down in the school, she has ridden the super fast Shadow (I can never catch up with the ride when he leads it!) and he stopped easily, and also Tash who is my Mums personal horse and has never had a rider on him before her. He didn’t know any different so behaved perfectly! However, I am very wary of those horse beasties and I shall be keeping a close watch to make sure it all continues this smoothly……………………….

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