{"id":33,"date":"2010-10-05T19:48:46","date_gmt":"2010-10-05T19:48:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.emeraldsilver.com\/horses\/2010\/10\/05\/sunny-no-tail\/"},"modified":"2010-10-05T19:48:46","modified_gmt":"2010-10-05T19:48:46","slug":"sunny-no-tail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.emeraldsilver.com\/horses\/2010\/10\/05\/sunny-no-tail\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunny No-Tail"},"content":{"rendered":"

Her name was just plain Sunny, but my mother gave her that nickname…<\/p>\n

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It was sadly apt.<\/p>\n

The story we were given is that one of her previous owners had put a rubber band around her tail, with sadly predictable results. She had a little nublet of a tail – three, maybe four inches long. (This was an early lesson very firmly pressed into my mind: rubber bands go around hair – never, ever<\/i> around the tailbone.) There was one memorable evening where some of the six or seven inches of tail hair she had got stuck in her butt; it took us forever<\/i> to figure out what was wrong, and I still kind of feel bad for laughing at her once we realized what was going on…<\/p>\n

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To be honest, I don’t remember much about riding her any more – nothing, that is, but the wholly disasterous show we did.<\/p>\n

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Yeah, that show.<\/p>\n

We were doing a single dressage test, and the silly mare completely flipped out about the trailer the judge was sitting in at the end of the arena. She just lost it. I ended up leaving the arena, because I didn’t realize I could speak to the judge and get instructions, and came back in at the end to do the test again… this time much more successfully. No score, of course – I gather I wasn’t supposed to leave the arena – but at least we completed the test!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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