Women's feet are a mess (not so with men's feet)

[riderinthestorm]

134. Geez, I get stepped on at least once/week - heels, ankles, toes.

Once I had a young stallion literally rear up and land with his legs around my neck (trying to mount me). He'd just arrived at the farm the day before to be broke and was a raging fool even with the chain - he pulled his little mounting stunt not 10 feet after I took him out of the stall. Of course his owners neglected to tell us THAT fun fact before he arrived. Funnily enough, he clunked his head on the barn aisle ceiling rafters when he reared up and "taught" himself a painful lesson without me reprimanding him even once. Good thing too because I'd already dropped the chain and curled up on the floor trying to get out of his way. One of the guys who worked for me ran over and grabbed the rope, and said the young stallion just stood there in those first few seconds looking totally confused and shit faced. I rolled out of the way and stood up as the horse was shaking it off. By the time I took the rope again, the horse was EXTREMELY docile and never pulled the stunt again. Truly one of the most memorable horse blows I've ever received!

Most of the horses at my farm are highly grained-up, extremely fit, over large, and hot (dressage and high level eventers)! I won't say it's my fault, I really won't - its just the nature of the sport horses we usually have here. Well, except one - one of my regular offenders is 28 years old and totally blind. He will only leave his stall for turnout with his mare friend Avita so I've always got them both in hand at the same time, but if he hears anything out of the ordinary he skitters around in a panic - colliding with me and (regularly) stepping into my space. I can have my hand on him all day long but if he spooks he literally wants to jump in my lap and there's no way my hand is going to stop 1000 panicking lbs trying to leap into my space. I've tried to get the owner to move him to a retirement farm but she insists on staying. We're a performance horse farm and she pays a LOT of money to keep him here in retirement (and I pay with my weekly bruising).

40 horses turned out and brought back in daily, plus the training and handling usually means I'm going to catch it somewhere on my body. And don't even get me started on the freaking youngsters! It does hurt like hell, that's for damn sure.