Every Sunday, I ride for 3 and a half hours. In Central New Brunswick on the best horses you could ever wish for. No kidding its true, but there is one in particular that I love the most. His name is Ebony Frostbite. Frosty (as we call him) is a registered Quarter Pony with the attitude of a 15 hand Arabian stallion, but yet... he has one weakness. BUGS! He gets an allergic reaction to bug bites and they puff up and are super irritating. To him it is the most annoying thing in the world. He kicks, bites, itches and rolls. Anything to itch those bites. These horses have run-out pastures. They can go outside at will whenever they like. Frosty realized this and also realized the bugs could also go in and out at will so he decided... "Why don't I CLOSE the door" so he slams the door in everybody's face and then backs up and puts his rump against it so it stays permanently closed. The woman who owns Frosty went outside so she could drop his hay by his usual feeding spot. She had opened his door, and when she came to close the door Frosty gave her a look of deepest disgust and smashed the door in her face. She told me it really meant, "Haven;t I told you a MILLION times to close the door when you leave??? The bugs will get in!!!" So in courtesy for Frosty everytime we open his closed door we close it when we're done. We don't want to be told off by a stubborn pony again. - Victoria Blair

 

We had 3 horses at home in 1999 and one of them was a 2 year old Thoroughbred we called Lil buddy. His registered name was The Charminator because he charmed everyone he met. One afternoon my husband and I went to groom and ride our horses. We were grooming in the run in shed, my husband and his horse on the outside of the gate and me on the inside with my horse....and Lil Buddy. Lil Buddy was nuzzling my tshirt while I was grooming my horse and rubbing my back. I bent over to clean my horses hooves and Lil Buddy kept rubbing my back, pushed through my waistband and pulled up my underwear GIVING ME A WEDGIE! We laughed so hard I almost fell down until I looked at all 3 horses faces and they were all grinning! I never saw a horse actually grin before that day. -Bonnie Gerdes

 

Steel is a Paint horse. Now, he is not a very big horse; 15 hands at the most. He is an escape artist to the max. He can get out of anything from wood fencing to eltric wire.For some time now, I had come out to feed in the morning and he was standing right by the gate, waiting patiently for me to let him back in. As soon as I opened the gate, he nonchalantely walked back in; as if he had done nothing wrong. One morning I was walking outside, and I saw the master at work. He took his lips, pulled up the bar, pushed the fence out, walked outside, brought the fence back to the latch, lifted it, and set it in place. Unbelievable, I think not. We must keep a chain on the fence from now on to keep him inside. - Amanda Parks

 

We have owned horses for 30 years and they always seem to amaze us. One morning after we had bought a filly and we had her for about 4-5 months, I was out feeding them. We always let the young ones roam the barn while we are getting feed ready and the older horses are in their stalls and cannot chase the little one. Well she was walking around checking things out and looking to see where her feed was. We keep a very large trash can in the barn for paper feed bags and it was pretty full with 2-3 bags laying across the top. Tinkerbell( the little filly) decided that these bags had feed in them and wanted to see if there was any left. I heard her messing with them and walked out to see what she was doin. There she was with the bag totally over her head and part of her neck with her head up in the air trying to get whatever she could out of the bag. I said "What are you doing you little stinker?" She dropped the bag very slow just let it slide of her head and just stood there looking at me like "well I thought there might be some left in there". It did not scare her to have the bag on her head or to drop the bag. Most horses even older ones would have jumped some from the falling bag or the thought of having the bag totally over their head like that. But not Tinkerbelle. She is now a 3 year old and a very smart little horse. - June Snowberger

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