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An old fashioned kinda horse
Jan. 19th, 2009 02:13 pmWith the new turnout schedule at the barn, the horses are turned out in small groups during the week and the whole herd is out together on Sunday afternoon until Monday morning. Because of this, horses aren't always able to hang with their main herd buddies during the week.
An amusing result of this is that Firecracker and Cascade have become buddies during the week. Those two used to pretty much hate each other. Now they're just about inseparable on weekday turnouts. Sundays, though, Cascade hangs around with Amigo (the Keanu Reeves of horses) and Firecracker hangs with Blackjack (who used to be one of Cascade's flunkies).
Last week when some of the colder weather came into the area, they found that Cascade was shivering and not handling the cold too well. As a precaution, they put a blanket on her to help her keep warm when she was turned out with her group. Firecracker, for some reason, was very much not happy about the blanket and chased Cascade around, biting and generally trying to beat her up. It kinda surprised the people who were there at the time. The next time they were turned out, she didn't have the blanket on and Firecracker was back to boyfriend mode. This had some of us speculating jokingly about why it was that the blanket caused Firecracker to behave like he did. We came up with 3 possibilities:
1) He thought some blanket monster was trying to get his girlfriend and was attempting to rescue her.
2) He felt that somehow Cascade had somehow turned into some sort of blanket monster, herself.
3) He's an old school kinda fella and no mare of his was gonna be running around in some fancy new fangled blanket!
People tended to gravitate toward #3, imagining Firecracker in a sleeveless tshirt going on about how mares should be bareback and preg..well okay, so he can't do that last part, but still, looking like the someone you'd see on the horse version of COPS getting arrested in front of his doublewide.
An amusing result of this is that Firecracker and Cascade have become buddies during the week. Those two used to pretty much hate each other. Now they're just about inseparable on weekday turnouts. Sundays, though, Cascade hangs around with Amigo (the Keanu Reeves of horses) and Firecracker hangs with Blackjack (who used to be one of Cascade's flunkies).
Last week when some of the colder weather came into the area, they found that Cascade was shivering and not handling the cold too well. As a precaution, they put a blanket on her to help her keep warm when she was turned out with her group. Firecracker, for some reason, was very much not happy about the blanket and chased Cascade around, biting and generally trying to beat her up. It kinda surprised the people who were there at the time. The next time they were turned out, she didn't have the blanket on and Firecracker was back to boyfriend mode. This had some of us speculating jokingly about why it was that the blanket caused Firecracker to behave like he did. We came up with 3 possibilities:
1) He thought some blanket monster was trying to get his girlfriend and was attempting to rescue her.
2) He felt that somehow Cascade had somehow turned into some sort of blanket monster, herself.
3) He's an old school kinda fella and no mare of his was gonna be running around in some fancy new fangled blanket!
People tended to gravitate toward #3, imagining Firecracker in a sleeveless tshirt going on about how mares should be bareback and preg..well okay, so he can't do that last part, but still, looking like the someone you'd see on the horse version of COPS getting arrested in front of his doublewide.