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Re: [RC] [RC] blue tarps, and other scary stuff - Laurie Durgin

My almost 3 yr old arab/appendx cross has been taught to try and open stall doors by Honey. He plays 'sticks" with Rascal (they pick up sticks and put them on each other, and shake them up and down.
I put a tarp over their roundbale when it is going to rain a couple days and tie it on 4 corners and they take it off. They drug an extra tarp from under the fence to play with.
And Scout must be "auditory" as twice I have caught him scraping a feed scoop back and forth on the ground. Thinking it strange, I gave him a rubber curry comb, he picked it up ,dropped his head and started scraping it back and forth, gave his a short piece of hose, he did it with that too..He did the same thing with the buckets and today with the metal shedding blade.
If I can just teach him to play the bass fiddle, I could make a million. . . . Laurie/Rascal/Honey/Scout



From: Chris Paus <paus@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: Lonnie Ruesch <lonnieruesch@xxxxxxxxxxx>, ridecamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [RC]   blue tarps, and other scary stuff
Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2004 07:52:50 -0800 (PST)

LOL, Lonnie.. had the same experience!

My filly Ali, the one that I took to the awful clinic,
did a similar thing. She sees everything as a
potential toy. One day there was a blue walmart
plastic bag in the field. She grabbed it and shook it
at the mares. Of course they ran and I could tell that
Ali was just laughing her head off....She'd wait til
the mares got all settled down and quietly eating and
then she'd rattle that bag at them again and send them
flying! She did that several times .. so I KNOW she's
not a spooky horse and she  does use her brain for
problem solving and she has a sense of humor.

chris
--- Lonnie Ruesch <lonnieruesch@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> Thought I would share a funny story.  My l/2 Arab
> mare Jasmine is pretty
> non-spooky, however she "glues an eye" on anything
> she passes that is white
> - especially when it is flapping in a breeze.  When
> we got her first filly,
> we spent a lot of time imprinting her, rubbing her
> all over with everything
> we could think of, including white plastic grocery
> bags.  One day one of
> these bags was picked up by a breeze and carried
> into the field.  The filly,
> JasAbu thought "This is a fine toy, think I'll go
> show it to mom."  The look
> on Jasmine's face as her filly chased her around the
> field was priceless - a
> cross between "Oh, no.  That flapping white thing is
> trying to get me - I
> have to run away!" and "Eek, it has my baby's
> face!."
>
> Lonnie
>
>
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