It's official my herd does not like ice

[Mama S.]

We had a hard rain last night and then the temps fell.:freezing: I wasn't paying attention this morning when I opened the back door for the herd to blast through. Sam & Hershey are racing at top speed to get to the ramp to potty. :eek: BOTH hit the ramp at warp speed and SLID all the way down toenails clicking trying to get traction. WHOMP - right on their butts into the leaves they had so nicely nosed up for me.
I was so hard , I triggered an asthma attack :scared1: and had to reach for my inhaler. Needless to say the only thing hurt was pride - they both sat at the end looking cross eyed wondering what happened. I laughed that much harder.
Then when potty time was done - Sam ( who may not be so Wise) tries to launch himself back up the ramp and skidded right off the side :huh: I'm so glad that nobody was hurt - just my ribs. Going to have to figure out how to keep the ramp from doing that - we are coming into our cold snap season and will probably have more ice. Can't have babies getting hurt.
Sandi

[Lisa]

OMG, that must have been hilarious! They are too funny when they hit some ice, mine are learning, they go strait for the snow now because they know it means traction.

Sounds like you had a kodak moment this morning!

[Nancy]

What a riot!!! If only you had a video tape rolling at the same time!!

Molly slipped on the ice the other morning as well and the look on her face was too cute! Naturally, I picked her up and gave her a big kiss to let her know everything was o.k.!

[Jen]

Sandi! I would have done the same thing.

Tasha tends to speed up over ice, to get to the dry sidewalk. But on those occasions she's being stubborn and refuses to walk...ice makes it easy to move her!!

[oceangirls]

that's so funny. Poor little guys. Maybe a Ramp Tarp? Or Ramp Astro-turf?

[Linus]

That's too funny!! Thanks for the laugh!

[Patt]

Very funny poor little guys I'm glad they got their business tended to after all that. I guess a tarp sounds like a good idea, I've never lived in snow so I really don't know what to do with an icy ramp. :banana:

[Fluffy]

I can just picture it!! Poor babies!! At least all that was hurt was their pride!!

[Mama S.]

Out the door at warp speed again this morning... WAIITTTTT......... STOP - DEAD STILL. Hmmmm..... that nasty stuff on our ramp again:confused:
NOPE - ZOOOMMMMM down to potty! YEAAHHHHHHHH
SAndi

[lotsadox]

At least they learned. Poor Scooter had a hard time getting a grip on the fact that almost the floors in the downstairs of the house are tile or laminate. Every morning he would banzai out of his crate, slide down the hall, get enough of a grip to start to turn and, WHAM, run into the door sill going into the kitchen. This went on for about 2 weeks. The poor boy must have been bruised by the time he finally realized that he had to go a little slower until he got outside.