A Lhasa in a Horse Storm!
© Marta Towne
I have a mobile home at the moment, set up in the middle of a horse pasture. This pasture also is the home of 11 horses. In this mobile home we have five Lhasa Apsos, and no separate fenced yard for them! Now this is a recipe for disaster!
Usually, the dogs stay on their run, the horses stay at a respectable distance and never the twain shall meet! This morning, however, it was a different story. The horses were up around the front door, hoping, no doubt that we would provide them with a carrot or three, and the dogs INSISTED they HAD to be drained! The first dog to the door was our little 18 month old boy, Sunny. Now Sunny has had a bad couple of weeks; first the girls are not in heat anymore and there fore no longer interested in his charms. Second, he took a trip to the Vet last week to have a little, ummm, shall we say "nip and tuck" done? Since we have no time to breed, we wanted to alter all our dogs, and he drew the short straw!
Anyway, Sunny demanded to be placed out to relieve himself, even though the horses were all gathered around. Now we had a run up between the Trailer and a large tree, with a rolling lead coming off it. The dog is tied to the end of the lead and they can run between the mobile and the tree, about 25 feet! Sunny was out there, doing his thing, and suddenly Spitfire decided to investigate him. He headed off away from her, tail between his legs.. Unfortunately for Sunny, he headed off in a direction that wrapped the lead under Spitfire's belly. Spitty spooked and jumped forward, pulling Sunny with her at the speed of light. There for a moment, poor Sunny looked like a yo yo! He jerked away from the horse, but her weight jerked him back the other way. Boing, Boing, boing! Poor darn dog was getting bounced around like a feather in FLOYD!
Spitfire got herself free, and everything looked like it was going to settle down. Sunny headed toward us, the run was intact, the Lhasa was intact, the horses were all intact...everything was fine...until the single Paint horse in the pasture had a delayed reaction and decided to spook too! Sara Lee twirled around, half reared and took off at a dead run. Unfortunately, her course took her directly into the path of the Lhasa, and the run! Now Sara Lee is much taller than the Arabians, and she hit the run directly under her chin. The run broke, the lead broke and the poor little Lhasa went flying like a clay pidgin shot from a machine! He basically flew about 30 feet and landed with a yelp as the entire herd of horses took it into their heads to leave the vicinity in a dead run!
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