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Location: The best kept secret in TX | stayceem - 2018-10-19 4:23 PM IRunOnFaith - 2018-10-19 3:53 PM My guy is by Ole Heart Throb by The Ole Man and out of Leo Peppy Belle by Mr San Peppy.....
He's Doomed to quirks his entire life and I'd never trade him. 
Things he does regularly:
-Lets himself out of his stall to turn the barn lights on at night. Or off and on repetedly until someone comes to the barn. Depends on his mood.
-Grabs the saddle blanket with his teeth while i'm trying to saddle and flings it around in his mouth. He will not let go until you pry it away from him like a dog. Then he snorts and pouts.
-When trying to put a bridle on, He will either act like he needs to stretch and will stretch upwards out of my reach or will pretend to scratch his nose on his leg... for a full 2 or 3 minutes.
-Spooks at Goats, pigs, chickens, cows, or any other animal.... He is in a pasture with a 350 pound Momma pig, chickens, and had goats in his pasture for years until we sold out.
-WILL NOT go through water of any kind. If you do, by some miracle, get him to cross the puddle he will dip his nose down to the puddle, snort and TIP TOE through the water. (Think of Tiny Tim's song Tiptoe Through The Tulips as his theme song)
-He will let the mare out of her stall after turning on the lights to make it look like she did it... after he puts himself away again in his stall.
-If the mare unties herself and then unties him, he won't move. But he frequently unties himself....
-Don't leave a drink of any kind by him, he will figure out a way to drink it all.
-And last but not least he will crush a farrier... By that I mean if a farrier is doing his feet he will rest all his weight on them and fall asleep. When the farrier is done, he will either get so close to falling over he will scramble his legs like a newborn foal or scare himself half to death when you wake him up.
-He was a bottle baby and was fed/kept inside a house for many months so he frequently lets himself out of the pasture and will try and open the screen door to come inside.
-He will always spook at his shadow. No matter how many times he sees it.
If I ever sold him well, his ad would be fun to read.... LOLOL
ETA: He's a 2005 Model He needs his own reality show
He would know and the quirks would get more weird. LOL
He's way too smart for his own good. Someone should have named him Mr. Ed. | |
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Location: North Dakota | IRunOnFaith - 2018-10-19 3:53 PM My guy is by Ole Heart Throb by The Ole Man and out of Leo Peppy Belle by Mr San Peppy.....
He's Doomed to quirks his entire life and I'd never trade him.
Things he does regularly:
-Lets himself out of his stall to turn the barn lights on at night. Or off and on repetedly until someone comes to the barn. Depends on his mood.
-Grabs the saddle blanket with his teeth while i'm trying to saddle and flings it around in his mouth. He will not let go until you pry it away from him like a dog. Then he snorts and pouts.
-When trying to put a bridle on, He will either act like he needs to stretch and will stretch upwards out of my reach or will pretend to scratch his nose on his leg... for a full 2 or 3 minutes.
-Spooks at Goats, pigs, chickens, cows, or any other animal.... He is in a pasture with a 350 pound Momma pig, chickens, and had goats in his pasture for years until we sold out.
-WILL NOT go through water of any kind. If you do, by some miracle, get him to cross the puddle he will dip his nose down to the puddle, snort and TIP TOE through the water. (Think of Tiny Tim's song Tiptoe Through The Tulips as his theme song)
-He will let the mare out of her stall after turning on the lights to make it look like she did it... after he puts himself away again in his stall.
-If the mare unties herself and then unties him, he won't move. But he frequently unties himself....
-Don't leave a drink of any kind by him, he will figure out a way to drink it all.
-And last but not least he will crush a farrier... By that I mean if a farrier is doing his feet he will rest all his weight on them and fall asleep. When the farrier is done, he will either get so close to falling over he will scramble his legs like a newborn foal or scare himself half to death when you wake him up.
-He was a bottle baby and was fed/kept inside a house for many months so he frequently lets himself out of the pasture and will try and open the screen door to come inside.
-He will always spook at his shadow. No matter how many times he sees it.
If I ever sold him well, his ad would be fun to read.... LOLOL
ETA: He's a 2005 Model
OH MY LANTA!!! Thanks for the laugh! He sounds like a total character! | |
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Location: Illinois | My 4 year old was a fruit loop when she was 3 and for a good part of this 4 year old year. Fine one minute and then blacked out in a panic the next. Reared for hours if left tied up somewhere, snorted at everything. She'd walk by it 6 times and the 7th time it was coming to eat her. Flipped over a couple times in her blind panic, once because I turned around to back her up for being pushy. She backed right up & over. Sometimes I wonder if that's how she got her name, Timber. She hates other horse but loves people and the minis we have. Her best friend is one of the cats. She's just really weird, but as she's getting older she seems to be leveling out. I did switch grain, but I switched to what she was on when I got her. She gets MVP Calmex too, but she has since I got her too. I'd hate to see what she would've been like without it. Your horse may grow out of some of it as she gets older too | |
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