{"id":3864,"date":"2013-08-07T13:50:31","date_gmt":"2013-08-07T05:50:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/?p=3864"},"modified":"2013-08-07T18:57:58","modified_gmt":"2013-08-07T10:57:58","slug":"quicksand-and-poo-soup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/2013\/08\/07\/quicksand-and-poo-soup\/","title":{"rendered":"Quicksand and Poo Soup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/20130807_172941.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-4050\" alt=\"20130807_172941\" src=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/20130807_172941-300x199.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/20130807_172941-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/20130807_172941.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>After almost <a href=\"http:\/\/au.news.yahoo.com\/thewest\/regional\/southwest\/a\/-\/news\/18396367\/sw-and-lsw-on-flood-alert\/\" target=\"_blank\">50mm of rain in 24 hours<\/a>, the sand outside the horses boxes is saturated and in some places like quicksand. \u00a0It looks ok until you stand on it and you get sucked down. \u00a0I almost lost my boot a couple of times. \u00a0The other delight this morning was a bucket of poo soup as Flash had dropped a load of manure in his water bucket. (I thought I would show the culprit rather than the result) \u00a0He has done this a few times, and seems completely unaware of where he goes to the toilet. Apparently this is typical with thoroughbreds as they are weaned early and put in with other youngsters for light training so they don&#8217;t learn good horse behaviours from the adult herd. <em>Middle horse Auspicious is very careful where he goes as he is completely<a href=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/20130804-0241.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-4056\" alt=\"20130804 024\" src=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/20130804-0241-300x199.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/20130804-0241-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/20130804-0241.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/dictionary.reference.com\/browse\/coprophobic\" target=\"_blank\">coprophobic<\/a>\u00a0and won&#8217;t step anywhere near it, so keeps them together at the edge of his box so he can stay away from them.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After almost 50mm of rain in 24 hours, the sand outside the horses boxes is saturated and in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4050,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-property"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/20130807_172941.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3864","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3864"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3864\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4062,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3864\/revisions\/4062"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}