A Minor Error
My one friend breeds racing horses and he had imported a very expensive stallion last year. We had arranged to go see one of his fillies making a debut yesterday and when I got there he complained to me about his stallion being sick and the veterinary surgeon not having arrived since calling him earlier in the morning.
Before leaving he tried to get the vet on the phone again but only found the answering service. He left his final instructions and we departed with the horse trailer in tow.
His filly did not perform well on the track and when we got home he was not in the best of moods. When he discovered that the colt in the pen had not been castrated and his prize stallion in the stable was in a worse condition as when we left, he was livid. He asked me to phone the vet as he was liable to shout at the man.
Oh, but I was there, the vet told me on the phone, I castrated the horse in the stable but I could not find anything wrong with the colt in the pen.
That was when I hanged up the phone. I told my friend to call the vet in ten minutes, got into my car and drove home. I had nothing to do with it and friendship only goes that far.
Have a great day and don't make any silly mistakes.
Comments (29)
I hope the vet is insured. He'll be looking at a monster claim.
Poor vet, poor animal, poor you!
I am glad to enjoy my time in the countryside in Lower Austria, very little cattle out here, more alike a tourist resort, working on a project, together with skilled fellas...
It is quite ok to laugh. I've been doing it all morning; every time I told the story to one of my colleagues.
How can he be upset with me? I did not doctor his horses.
And I even place a bet of R10 - about 1 US$ - on his horse that came last in the race. I only realized his foul mood when he did not laugh when I told him his filly was not so bad for it took 14 other horses to beat her.
According to the bookmakers and newspapers his filly was one of the favorites to win this silly race; all first time runners. I guess the other horses did not read the newspaper before running.
In Austria we have areas where you can be run down by a hog! It's true!
Then of course there are the flies that float in with the wind but we don't mention that when we sell a property around here.
It happened all right; and he has not phoned me yet, so I can only assume he is very busy with his attorney today. I should not but I have been laughing about it all day long. It must surely qualify for at least a nomination as the boo boo of the year.
But they do laugh. I wonder who the horselaugh will be on after yesterday.
I was not even there when it happened. I was busy losing R10.00 at the nearby racecourse. Methinks one of the stable hands could have watched his filly run while he attended to more pressing matters like the virility of his prize stud.
horses don't lie
horses don't fly,
but they do laugh
and occasionally cough.
ah...ah...ah...ah! ( chorus )
I never got the hang of it I could not stand the humiliation form a HORSE that is
Can you whistle the tune so I can hear?
So the horselaugh was on you then.
My friend is a rather big man with a short fuse; he is perfectly capable of strangling the poor vet.
Btw. I phoned him a bit earlier and he was capable of making fun at me for running away like a 'horse with his tail on fire'. So he's not taking it too bad. And apparently the vet is insured against such claims.
Dont talk like that. We had such a scandal not too long ago. Luckily I have not eaten a beef patty for many years. I don't like burgers if it not a home made patty.
Good grief!
Are we back with mutilating men again?
I suppose the insurance companies do it. why not. I know the bookmakers distribute their losses by doing that.