Welcome to the blog set up for the most amusing horse I have ever had the pleasure to know.
Button (or Moon / 'retard' / 'get off my foot you stupid horse') is a 4 year old; bay would be event horse with a very special brain. His antics regularly have us in stitches so I thought we should have somewhere to share his hilarity with all horsy and non-horsy people out there. Such humour should not be wasted on just a few!
Just as a taster we will start with the story of Buttons first bath. . .
All waterproofed up ready to get soaked, as any owner who has tried to bath a four year old has done we get the hose (snake) out and prepare ourselves to be trampled in fear of the new green reptile. No movement from button, he is quietly eating his hay, unaware. We switch on the water, it sputters and the noise is enough to alert button of the presence of the new killer reptile. Slowly and carefully I aim the water towards his legs, still no leaping around, his legs are getting wet and the hose it still spluttering nosily. A miracle I think, an easy horse to bathe without any training!
Too soon - moments later the 16.2hh giant is stood lowered, front legs splayed, head low to the ground (think bambi on ice and double the size) and he's snorting at the ground with a look of fear in his eyes. I step back carefully and asses the situation; water still hitting his body, hose still spluttering, he’s not bothered by this but he's staring at the ground? Then it clicks, the concrete beneath his feet is changing colour, getting darker with the water, and it might just swallow him up whole. You know, as many owners lose their 16h horses to horse eating concrete!
Laughing, I carefully continue hosing his legs while he snorts at the floor. Suddenly the snorting stops and I quickly check he’s not on the verge of leaping in the air and sending me flying. Nope, he sniffs the horse eating floor and very very tentatively sticks his tongue out, and gives it a lick. Yes, the way to test the floor is still ok is to lick it. The first example of Button logic. . .
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