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Lady Sophie- of the Great- Hunt

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Barked: Tue Feb 17, '09 4:55pm PST 
Yeah, horsies can be kind of hard to get along with. They don't like being pestered by little barkers. I can't imagine whythinking Who wouldn't want to play with us?blue dog
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Athena

Mom's Shadow but- Toulouse is my- Love

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Barked: Sun Feb 22, '09 5:35pm PST 
In that boarding barn I talked about, the owners had 2 QH horses of their own. One mare named Robin, was kind of flightly ... not mean, but just high strung. One day while I was brushing Senator in the aisle I watched as the barn cat jumped up on the water bucket of the mare for a drink. There wasn't much water in the bucket, so kitty had to straddle the bucket and lean way in to reach the water. Robin approached the kitty and I thought for sure she would either bite the cat or, at the least, give her a nudge and push her in to the water. Much to my amazement, Robin ... oh so gently ... gave the softest of breaths as she touched kitty with her nose. Kitty didn't even lose her balance ... finished her drink and turned around to give Robin a nudge back. It was one of those "awwwwwwwwwww" moments.
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Lady Sophie- of the Great- Hunt

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Barked: Wed Feb 25, '09 8:46pm PST 
I've seen our horses being really gentle to barn cats too. Animals can be so amazing.

We had a pony once that we kept in our yard and we also had a couple of banty chickens that my Grandma gave us a chicks. One winter day we looked out and the pony was standing by the porch with the chickens on her back. I guess they were keeping their feet warm and she didn't seem to care.
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Lady Sophie- of the Great- Hunt

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Barked: Wed Feb 25, '09 9:03pm PST 
Next question-

Does your horse have a special itchy place that they like to have scratched?

Our big gelding, Chief loves to have his chest between his front legs scratched. And he also likes to have his back scratched along the center. He really likes it when you stand there and use one hand to scratch his back and the other to scratch his underside. He will kind of rock back and forth and quiver his lip. And every time you go in the pasture he will come up and expect to get scratched. Possibly a tinsy bit spoiledlaugh out loud
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Athena

Mom's Shadow but- Toulouse is my- Love

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Barked: Sat Feb 28, '09 4:53pm PST 
I always told Senator he was one "big itchy"! laugh out loud

He would twist up his nose when I scratched his withers. And he liked to be scratched in the groove where his shoulder and neck met.
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Lady Sophie- of the Great- Hunt

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Barked: Wed Mar 4, '09 9:11am PST 
Moving on to the next question....

Is or was your horsey a talker? When the Momma goes out to feed does she get met with "hurry up I'm starving" nickers? Our three all nicker at feeding time but Sweets will nicker whenever she sees Mom no matter when it is. Hoping that Mom will take notice and get her a treat.
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Athena

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Barked: Wed Mar 4, '09 5:12pm PST 
If Senator was really hungry he would start neighing when he heard us close the door from the house, but, usually he always welcomed us into the barn with a gentle "hello" nicker. He would always get some carrots and apple slices so he would dance around and softly make that little sound like when a mare "talks" to her baby.

Senator was always a gentleman, even when he was dancing around us he was always careful not to bump into us and he was super gentle around my senior citizen mom. 'Course, he was the only horse, so there was no competition but he always had excellent manners even when he was boarded with other horses.
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Lady Sophie- of the Great- Hunt

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Barked: Thu Mar 12, '09 9:36am PST 
Senator sounds like he was a really sweet boy.


Next question... What does your horsey think of clippers? Does he tolerate the bridle path cut but draw the line at inside the ears or does just the sound of the clippers make him want to run away, or does he think the vibration feels good?
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Athena

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Barked: Sun Mar 15, '09 8:12pm PST 
Senator was OK with the clippers, except inside his ears. And I don't know what happened because for the first few times I was able to clip inside his ears with no problem. Then, suddenly, he wouldn't let me do it any more. These were the really quiet clippers, too.

During the last few years Senator developed cushings disease and he would grow such a heavy coat, so I body clipped him. He really appreciated it, 'cause he felt so much cooler without all the heavy hair.
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Lady Sophie- of the Great- Hunt

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Barked: Sun Mar 15, '09 10:35pm PST 
Next question:

What about trailers? Does your horse mind loading in a trailer or does he walk right in like it was his stall? Does it matter if it is a ramp load or a step up or even one of those narrow single file trailers?

We just sent Spook, our younger mare off to the trainer and he came to get her with a single file trailer, Mom wasn't sure she'd go in because she was used to a two horse ramp load. She balked a little but not bad. Mom was really proud of her.

Our old gelding Chief is pretty good about trailers but he prefers something like a stock trailer the most so he has plenty of room. He is a big boy and doesn't like to be squished. In a stock trailer he likes to turn around and ride facing backward.
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