{"id":184450,"date":"2025-04-14T15:42:15","date_gmt":"2025-04-14T15:42:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/som2nypost.com\/animal\/rugby-match-my-shetland\/"},"modified":"2025-04-14T15:42:15","modified_gmt":"2025-04-14T15:42:15","slug":"rugby-match-my-shetland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/som2nypost.com\/?p=184450","title":{"rendered":"Rugby Match | My Shetland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Every morning I go out with buckets of food for the old horses and ponies.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-77544\" src=\"https:\/\/myshetland.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/IMG_7188.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\"\/><\/p>\n<p>This is not as simple as it sounds as I have to carry four rather full buckets \u2013 one each for Kolka, Iacs and Haakon (they each have different dietary needs)\u2026..<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-77543\" src=\"https:\/\/myshetland.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/IMG_7185.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/myshetland.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/IMG_7185.jpg 600w, https:\/\/myshetland.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/IMG_7185-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\u2026. plus another for Fivla and Vitamin which I split.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-77542\" src=\"https:\/\/myshetland.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/IMG_7187.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/myshetland.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/IMG_7187.jpg 600w, https:\/\/myshetland.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/IMG_7187-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Then I have to stand in between Kolka and Iacs because Kolka will finish her food faster than everyone else and then start picking on Iacs to get his, failing that she marches off to the little ones as they are an easy target.\u00a0 So I grab Kolka and stop her doing this, letting Iacs finish his food in peace, though today I did catch Haakon thinking about having a go. We had words.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-77541\" src=\"https:\/\/myshetland.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/IMG_7190.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\"\/><\/p>\n<p>To get to the field, I have to scramble through a difficult gap in the dry-stone wall, with my four buckets trying hard not to fall over in the process or let Kolka grab the wrong one over the wire fence, while simultaneiously not letting Gussie eat them first, which is his only ambition.\u00a0 Kolka by now is threatening to kick everyone.\u00a0 Meanwhile Vitamin is running up and down the fence hysterically worried she will be forgotten.\u00a0 When she gets her food, she wolfs it down in gulps!\u00a0 Honestly, none of this is easy.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-77540\" src=\"https:\/\/myshetland.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/IMG_7195.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Gussie does not help in any way.\u00a0 Just want, want, want.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-77539\" src=\"https:\/\/myshetland.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/IMG_7196.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\"\/><\/p>\n<p>And Dahlia is no saint either.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-77538\" src=\"https:\/\/myshetland.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/IMG_7199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Later, when I come out of the field clutching my empty buckets, having fended off everyone left, right and centre, I feel like I have been in a rugby match where no one really knows or cares about the rules very much!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-77537\" src=\"https:\/\/myshetland.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/IMG_7200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-block sd-like jetpack-likes-widget-wrapper jetpack-likes-widget-unloaded\" id=\"like-post-wrapper-47143706-77536-67fd2cd6eaed9\" data-src=\"https:\/\/widgets.wp.com\/likes\/#blog_id=47143706&amp;post_id=77536&amp;origin=myshetland.co.uk&amp;obj_id=47143706-77536-67fd2cd6eaed9\" data-name=\"like-post-frame-47143706-77536-67fd2cd6eaed9\" data-title=\"Like or Reblog\">\n<h3 class=\"sd-title\">Like this:<\/h3>\n<p><span class=\"button\"><span>Like<\/span><\/span> <span class=\"loading\">Loading&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"sd-text-color\"\/><a class=\"sd-link-color\"\/><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script>(function(d, s, id) { var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0]; if (d.getElementById(id)) return; js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id; js.src=\"https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_GB\/sdk.js#xfbml=1&amp;appId=249643311490&version=v2.3\"; fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs); }(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every morning I go out with buckets of food for the old horses and ponies. 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