Obsessed. With both of them, but Bert’s ears! 
Also. Those still look like horses and not Bog Monsters. They need to try harder! 
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In their defense, it did not rain hard enough to make good mud - just surface mud - so the supplies they were working with were subpar. It is likely going to rain again today, so they will have another chance.
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Someone remind me, please, what breed we more or less think they are? Was it TB? Or DHH?
This.
Definitely DHH, I have no doubt there!
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Bert says challenge
accepted
It still didn’t actually rain that much so this was the best he could do. 
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He put a ton of effort into that! Still cute, covered in mud.
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Now that’s some effort! Great job!
I feel like I owe you shampoo or a Tiger’s Tongue. Not that you’d be able to use it on him… maybe a water bill credit?
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Actually it is pretty smart. Keeps them cool and the bugs off.
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Bravo by you with Bert & Ernie!! Just caught up and you have made wonderful progress with them!!!
Bert’s the one that likes the hosings, yes? Maybe he’s just trying to ensure more showers.
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Are you sure he’s all DHH? He may not look part Hippo but he kind of acts like one. 
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Perfect!
From the duo Flanders & Swann’s “The Hippopotamus Song”:
“Mud, mud, glorious mud
Nothing quite like it for cooling the blood
So follow me, follow
Down to the hollow
And there let us wallow in glorious mud”
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Reminds me of Rick Charette’s “I Love Mud” (was he just an '80’s New England thing?)
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This afternoon, I (successfully) attempted to put Peach and Ernie out in the big field where there is ample grass that someone should be eating. I offered Bert to go as well - he even let me put the halter on without payment, and he clearly wanted to go, BUT sadly we were unable to navigate exiting the paddock. They know where the electric fence usually is and he was not going to be convinced that he should cross that line. I told him we could try again tomorrow. He deserves grass too.
Ernie was ok-ish to lead across the yard. Neither of these horses has any real education about any finer points of being led, so things like personal space or speed/direction/alignment are iffy at best. I put Peach out first so that we’d have an automatic draw as to where to go and it worked out well, only had to make a few circles to sort of the who-leads-who business.
Anyway, no pix of Bert but here’s some screen shots of Peach doing a couple victory speed laps and Ernie doing his best to keep up, while having zero clue why we’re going so fast. DHH do not desire to run just for fun like TB 
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You are doing amazing. I can not say how much I am enjoying Bert and Ernie.
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Omg!!! These pics made me SMILE! Poor Bert - he’s a smart one isn’t he? Even if it works against him
My Hanoverian/draft (the BEST horse on the planet) would stand in the middle of the field while the ponies tore laps around him. He’d just look at me like “I’m not running until I see a good reason” . He was just that type of horse - nothing really spooked him. I bought him at 12 from a dealer and I’ve always wondered if it was his nature or if he had a great start. He could jump the moon from a standstill, so it wasn’t a question of athleticism, just a question of motivation 
Here’s hoping Bert gets some outside time soon, brave boy! But just these pics of Ernie and Peach really makes it all worth it, huh?
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This astute observation makes me laugh.
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Bert did it!
It was literally one step at a time, sometimes one step forward and two (or three) steps back. Took us probably 20 minutes to make it all the way across the threshold.
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Awww! I’m so proud of him!
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