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For Those With White Horses - Welcome to Your Nightmare

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    For Those With White Horses - Welcome to Your Nightmare

    He sure is enjoying it.

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    "No matter how well you perform there's always somebody of intelligent opinion who thinks it's lousy." - Laurence Olivier
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    Aaargh. Thank God mine almost never has access to that much mud.
    What's wrong with you?? Your cheese done slid off its cracker?!?!

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    • #3
      He certainly looks pleased with himself! and it appears that they did make him his puddle to play in.

      We recently brought two of our horses back home from a clinic weekend where we had big separation anxiety problems create a ton of tension between them. We did a repeat hosing for all the sweat since our home hose had better water pressure - they immediately went out and rolled to their heart's delight. I know that it really helped them work out all the stress in their bodies.
      The cue card kid just held up an empty cue card. For a minute there I thought I had lost my sense of humor. --- Red Skelton

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      • #4
        I would take him in a heart beat, mud puddle and all !

        I used to care for 40 andies, all but 4 were greyed out. The two chestnuts, black and bay were never dirty. The other 36, .... well, we went through a ton of Orvis.
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        • #5
          I've experienced that first hand. Now and then I clean my horse up really well, but sometime last year it occurred to me: "Why interfere with something that brings another living being so much obvious pleasure?"

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          • #6
            Yep, one happy horse

            We have a gray pony whose favorite trick is to see me coming in the morning, lie down have a good roll and then shake like a dog when I get close!
            \"Tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it.\" Anne of Green Gables

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            • #7
              i was waiting for him to get down and roll in the dry part too.
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              Today I will be happier than a bird with a french fry.

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              • #8
                So cute! He loves his mud puddle! And he looks so proud of his new muddy look!
                A canter is a cure for every evil. ~Benjamin Disraeli

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                • #9
                  That's what hoses are for. Sooner or later he's going to lose all that hard earned muck.
                  Some riders change their horse, they change their saddle, they change their teacher; they never change themselves.

                  Remember the horse does all the work, we just sit there and look pretty.

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                  • #10
                    I love the sound effects almost as much as I love the look I'm imagining on his groom's face!
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                    • #11
                      Seems like he missed a spot thought. His face is still mostly white. ;-)
                      It is not enough to know how to ride; one must know how to fall.

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                      • #12
                        What's the problem? Now he is a bald-faced brown horse.
                        Last edited by Calamber; Nov. 14, 2014, 12:33 PM.
                        "We, too, will be remembered not for victories or defeats in battle or in politics, but for our contribution to the human spirit." JFK

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                        • #13
                          From gray to bay!

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                          • #14
                            Here he'd be pink. That's the color we get after washing the red clay off!!

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                            • #15
                              There is no way my milk white horse would be allowed anywhere near that !
                              Proud member of People Who Hate to Kill Wildlife clique

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                              • #16
                                So that's how mine got this way?!

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                                • #17
                                  Originally posted by SmartAlex View Post
                                  I've experienced that first hand. Now and then I clean my horse up really well, but sometime last year it occurred to me: "Why interfere with something that brings another living being so much obvious pleasure?"

                                  This! Happiness is worth is a little dirt.
                                  "I did know once, only I've sort of forgotten." - Winnie the Pooh

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                                  • #18
                                    You know what's even more fun? Watching the weanlings that you are about to bring in to start sales prepping playing in a giant mud puddle. We stood there and watched them for a couple of minutes, let them have their fun, got the hose and scraper ready, then started to bring them in. They were not happy and neither were we lol.

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                                    • #19
                                      Ah man, I would hate to groom that off. That being said he looks very happy and proud of all that muck. This also reminds me why I so love the breed, and why I desperately want one some day.

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                                      • #20
                                        Welcome to my world! And I get to clean it off of a 17h. Percheron, sometimes every.single.day! Let it dry, curry it, and brush it off.

                                        I will say that the only time I almost had a heart attack was when I moved my white and black leopard appy to a farm with red clay. I drove up the driveway, and there stood my dark pink horse. Complete panic set in until I found out it all brushed right off. My horses have never been neat freaks!
                                        "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." Albert Einstein

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