I will probably regret writing this, but the Shetland ponies are doing very well on my strict regime of utter misery and bare nothingness resulting in total starvation.

And they even enthusiastically come home when they are called in the evening.   No more messing around, which is much better.

I think one of the reasons is that there is very little grass out there and so they are hungry by evening.  They also don’t get breakfast anymore so I have a nice bucket of food is waiting for them all.  Food with no calorific content, but they don’t know that and it is filling.  Plus 2 haynets of soaked hay and another 2 later.

These days I am one tough Muzzah. I have to be.

And as the ponies all seem to be surviving and looking healthy, so it must be right.

Surely?