I'm on Foal Watch!

[2DogsFarm]

Love Hazel’s curlyness
at Mom telling him to not clack/mingle with the riffraff.

I had to do a Forced March of my larger field this morning to find the muzzle Bugs (mini) got off last night after dark. I take it off at that last nightcheck, he saved me the trouble
But it’s a lovely morning & the mud has dried so I was able to see my pasture had come in very nice this year, w/o losing a boot.
“Large” in my case is ~2ac, but my wonky knees protested even that much walking
Of course, muzzle was in the smaller field
But if I’d checked there first, no stroll in the big one

[eightpondfarm]

i have taught my dogs to “go find it”! And they will bring back to me any human-object. In the olden days when i was doing work w/FBI i taught them to Down! and stay at any human object so as to not tamper with possible evidence. Of course this only works in wilderness settings, not urban. In urban you have to teach scent-specific article search… But nowdays, since i’m only doing live human search disaster w/FEMA, i’ve kept on with the article search training for my own purposes here on the farm. My dogs will find tines from a hay rake in a hay field! Or my knife. They’re very useful. Heck, i’ve sent them to go find something for me and they will come back with some tool or a water bottle that i didn’t even know i dropped! So then i take it and do a Happy-Dance with them (they love that) and resend.

[2DogsFarm]

Despite my Username here, there are no dogs on 2 Dogs Farm
Though I grew up with dogs as a kid (Boxer, then miniature - not toy - Poodle) & had a LabX in my 20s for 17yrs, turns out I’m more a Catperson.
Lower maintenance
Of my 3 horses, mini is smartest, but unlikely to help me locate a missing Nose Prison
Note the Stinkeye:

Though he obediently accepts putting it on, because that’s followed by COOKIE!

[Scribbler]

@eightpondfarm

i have taught my dogs to “go find it”! And they will bring back to me any human-object. In the olden days when i was doing work w/FBI i taught them to Down! and stay at any human object so as to not tamper with possible evidence. Of course this only works in wilderness settings, not urban. In urban you have to teach scent-specific article search… But nowdays, since i’m only doing live human search disaster w/FEMA, i’ve kept on with the article search training for my own purposes here on the farm. My dogs will find tines from a hay rake in a hay field! Or my knife. They’re very useful. Heck, i’ve sent them to go find something for me and they will come back with some tool or a water bottle that i didn’t even know i dropped! So then i take it and do a Happy-Dance with them (they love that) and resend.

OMG that’s absolutely brilliant.

I thought I was doing well with a horse that can pick gloves up off the ground and hand them to me in the saddle.

[eightpondfarm]

that IS a good service for a dog to provide!

I have a pile of tools over there…and i need one of them here…
so i tell my boy: “Go. Take that.” and he’ll go and pick up a rake and i say: “Good boy! Get the other one”…and he picks up the future fork and i say: “Good boy! Bring!” and he’ll drag it over to me. I can send him upstairs to get my slippers too. He’s a good dog (for a lab) lol.

I just love dogs.

[eightpondfarm]

Itchy-bum Hazel

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[ZuzusPetals]

@eightpondfarm, He’s all, “Oh! Uh … just a little itch … Did you see rain in the forecast? Yeah, they’re saying. Excuse me. Mom’s calling.”

[Jenerationx]

Bendy boy! Too adorable.

[eightpondfarm]

Brenna and Hazel

[eightpondfarm]

Hazel-rah and Roslyn are interacting a lot more now

[2DogsFarm]

A perfect start to my morning
Now that Queen Brenna has allowed her Prince to mingle, I’m sure we’ll be treated to more foals 2gether vids soon!

[eightpondfarm]

i haven’t had my camera the two or three times they’ve gone off on a run together. Today i’ll be packin my iPhone all day.

They JUST started touching. Two days now. yesterday morning when Brenna came in from morning graze she had both foals with her! Rizada-who is in rip-roaring heat, had stayed in the corral mooning over the three geldings next door. Brenna baby-sat Roslyn…or tolerated her anyway. Since that, the foals have been interacting. it’s so cute.

[2DogsFarm]

Those of us with All Growed Up horses (still amusing but the Cute Factor can’t match the bebe’s) appreciate your journaling!

[eightpondfarm]

the baby-ness fades sooo fast doesn’t it? Already they are full of personality and individualness. I can see the horse-within. In a way i can’t wait to see them grown, and in another way i want to grab them and ask them to slooooooow down please!

[Eclectic_Horseman]

@eightpondfarm

Already they are full of personality and individualness.

Roslyn is definitely starting to try out dominance with the mounting behavior.

[eightpondfarm]

She’s gonna be a lot of horse. She is an emoticon, she’s quick to anger and demonstrative about it, and equally as quick to hug. She defends her mother from Hazel’s ceaseless clacking. She’s a pistol that one!

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[2DogsFarm]

Maybe get yourself a mini?
The size helps make the Cute last longer.
This guy turns 10 this month, vid is when he was 8. Calling him in from the indoor.
Sass fully intact

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[eightpondfarm]

awwww! so cuuuute!

[JBCool]

Cute? Yes, but the smaller the permanent size, the more concentrated the evil pony-tude!

My previous horse was apparently just the right height I could always find lost shoes/muzzles/bell boots (none of them his) if I rode around the paddock. It got to the point my trainer would ask me to take him to look for them!

[chestnutmarebeware]

I see what you’re doing!

Trying to push those Satan-in-a-Pony-Suit demons on a poor, unsuspecting victim!

As the phrase goes, they’re short so they can be closer to hell!