I have a dappled buckskin Quarter pony. Truly. Couldn’t see her dapples when I bought her, but they popped after a couple months on good pasture. Bought her for some little friends and her name was Dakota. Rode her a few times myself and kept telling her she was a little gem, so “Gem” is now her name. 
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They probably wondered how you could have foundered so badly that you completely lost your hooves, and yet there you were, still walking around!
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my horses also love toes and my Irish gelding will lick them if you aren’t paying attention. All those years in PC, yes I occasionally am shod in flippy flops when I do barn checks or go out and take pictures.
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Im going to have to show Charlie my feet when the weather warms up 
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I can hear my childhood riding instructor’s horrified voice every time I feed in flip flops.
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Do it
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I had a silver dapple Shetland pony type. She was adorable
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@Scribbler @StormyDay @atr This offshoot has me crying in my coffee this morning! Yes, I cannot imagine the hair situation, and the horses seeing man skin is too funny. I needed this chuckle.
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It sounds like we have a spring-time toe challenge brewing. I’m wondering if the gelding who is obsessed with ponytails, hats, zippers, and buttons will be curious about toes. Mine are always in regulation boots! An anvil would drop from the sky in my mind just like Looney Toons if I had sandles on in the barn!
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They’re on to us as an unevolved species. Give it another 50 millon years or so and maybe we’ll have chestnuts and ergots too.
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It is always interesting to see how each of us approaches horse shopping. What we want or don’t want in that horse we are seeking.
No feathers is about the easiest thing to accomplish and don’t disqualify a horse because they have them. Just use clippers?
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Ha! I had to re-read that. First reading, I thought you meant he had come back to “finish you off” not pick you up. 
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Definitely would scare the cr** out of me. I’ve always preferred being on the back of one acting up if my other choice was being on the ground while they were acting up. YMMV
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My memory is a little fuzzy, but I think that was how the evil dressage BNT was killed in Carolyn Banks’ book “Death By Dressage.”
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I grew up in SoCal. Because I loved horses, my dad used to take me to Hollywood Park to see them. He did not bet or anything, just took me to see the horses.
My absolute favorite horse was Native Diver, for any of you who remember him. Probably because of “Black Stallion” syndrome. He was registered as brown but looked black. (He was also a gelding, but hey, a kid wouldn’t have been differentiating at that point. ). One of his nicknames was “The Black Horse.” So, I always loved TBs from the beginning.
When I read The Black Stallion, I always pictured a TB. I just couldn’t figure out how he could be raced without papers. Come the movie, (I was an adult by then, of course), I couldn’t believe they used an Arab. Beautiful horse, but not a TB. Still disappointed.
Haha! He’s a real momma’s boy. Totes came back for me. I’m told that’s a good horse!
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Maybe you could DM her?
Cover art looks like the Black Stallion.
