Grumpy girl

BG has been waiting at the gate the last two mornings when we have got up the field to feed her, looking out for our car. I have cut her feed down slightly though so she might loose the inclination to wait for just a measly handful. I was being a bit too soft on her thinking it was cold and wet and so her back is starting to look like a flat table top. Seeing as she is getting hay at night from the other owner it isn’t like she is being starved, so she can do with just one handful rather than two at both her mealtimes.

I gave BG a quick groom this morning to remove the mud that had dried on her coat. When I went to run the brush between her two front legs her ears went back and she swung her head round to snap at the air a foot or so away from my head. I tried again and although she didn’t look happy about it she had already told me that so she didn’t attempt to snap at me again.

I ran my hand between her legs to see if I could feel anything that would irritate her but there was nothing apart from some dried mud. She does have a thick coat so I might be missing something. She is definitely trying to tell me that for some reason she isn’t happy. The strange thing is she is normally fine about being groomed anywhere, but this is the second or third time recently she has snapped at me for grooming her there. She has never ever caught me, just swung her neck round and snapped in the air as a warning. It is all very odd.