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Odd trail experiences!

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Alright ya'll lets share our odd trail experiences...

My most recent one was a couple of nights ago; I had taken my mare to this really fun area to ride hills, and gallop the trail, and we had been there for probably 40 minutes, and I was working some hills with her. Well we came up the slope at one point, and landed right in front of a coyote!!! Like he was literally no more than 4-5 ft away! :shock: The weird part was that 1) my mare did absolutely NOTHING...no snorting, didn't wig out, just was like it is perfectly normal to encounter a small wolf on a trail! Course she does have to go past several places on our rides that have absolutely BALLISTIC dogs!! Thank god those are fenced! 2) Coyote just stood there like "what the???" His eyes were HUGE! After a brief moment, took off back down the hill I believe he came up. We hung out at the top of the trail just to make sure mr. wiley coyote didn't come back up and try anything sneaky; he did come back out of the bushes, and just stood there and the three of us just stood there watching each other, and finally the coyote wandered off into the gulley, and back up a larger hill way across from Flicka and I. So then we went the opposite way, more towards the 'busy' part of the town she's boarded in.
 
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I can't read all these stories without remembering what happened to me one day - this would be in the late '70s, so I must admit some of the details are hazy, but I know EXACTLY where it happened and still have the picture in my mind:

I was riding by myself (as usual) one day in the woods near my home in northern NH and a fawn came running up to me - so young it still had spots. It didn't just happen by, it was running straight at me, and all I could think (and still do) was that it thought my horse was its mommy! It really seemed to have that "oh, there you are, at last I've found you" body language.

Especially since, when it got close enough to really see us, it put on the brakes, stared a moment, then turned and high-tailed it out of there!!

Every time I think back to that (and I still occasionally do) I end with the thought that I HOPE it found its mother, that they didn't get separated for good just because this fawn didn't do as it was told and stay put.

I did have one other fawn encounter. In 1997 or so I had my horse (same horse, my one and only, who I got in 1975 age 7 and put down in 1998 age 31) in Dutchess County NY and was riding with a couple others when I came upon a younger fawn nestled in the high grass, obviously left there by Mom as she went off to do her thing (as deer do). Very cute. But not as memorable as the first.

Anne
 
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