There will be just one precedence whenever you arrive within the hay barn to seek out your son caught head-down in a haynet holder, legs waving within the breeze, a canine’s paw firmly on his head.
And someway, whereas howling with laughter, Heather Westgate managed to seize the second on digicam.
Heather instructed H&H 14-year-old Felix had not been properly final Friday (13 January) so she helped him out together with his eventing pony Tom and new horse Monty.
“So on Saturday, I needed to work and he stated he’d replenish the haynets, and off he toddled,” Heather stated. “He’s acquired a telephone watch and subsequent factor, I had a message saying ‘Mum, I’m in a little bit of a predicament’. I didn’t suppose that sounded too dangerous so it was a superb 10 minutes earlier than I acquired spherical there.”
Heather stated Felix had additionally tried to ring his father, who missed the decision, so there he nonetheless was, investigating the underside of the haynet, when she arrived.
“I simply laughed and stated, ‘You need to keep there!’” she stated. “I’ve acquired to get an image of this. for SEU. I stated ‘Dangle on, I’ll get you out in a second however I’ve acquired to get the photograph!’”
Heather added that she thought at first Felix might have staged his accident. “However he stated ‘Mum, I couldn’t, I used to be caught!’” she stated.
“It’s an excellent photograph; there’s the pet together with his paw on Felix’s head to maintain him there, and another person stated ‘It’s not the pet it is advisable to fear about, it’s the cat within the background!’
“The canines had been taking part in with him and apparently pushed him in head-first; he simply stated ‘They pushed me!’
“I like the photograph and it’s happening in historical past.”
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