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Post by fantasykiger on Feb 19, 2009 14:33:20 GMT -5
Under the heading of this topic category it says "what do you do with your Kiger?" and for the past few months that has been not a whole lot. I have been guilty of just a few hugs a day and a pat on the rump. While Fantasy is pleased as punch, she could not ask for anything better in life, her daughter Wickee is very bored. I promised Wickee with better weather we would get back to more challenges in training and playtime with at liberty training soon more regularly. I put the cows out in the horse pasture and they were entertaining for awhile. There are big black buckets out in the pasture that the cows love to push around with their heads. My young Mustang gelding loved to back up to them and concentrate real hard about putting both back feet in them as well. I sold my gelding a month ago, but today I found a bored Wickee giving that bucket trick a try. I had to use my zoom so she would hopefully not notice me, so pics are not best quality   oops she saw me   |
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Post by canadiankigers on Feb 19, 2009 18:35:44 GMT -5
LOL!!!!! I love the pictures. That Wickee is going to really benefit from a home with lots of love and time to keep her busy. She is obviously a real thinker.
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Post by mystickiger on Feb 19, 2009 21:24:18 GMT -5
She's a cunning one! So innocent looking as she very well knows exactly what her plan is!! She's a beauty, Tiffany. If I had time to ride three Kigers I would have snatched her up the minute you listed her for sale. Love those smart mares! Eye candy on top of that doesn't hurt either Karen |
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Wild horses can drag me away :-)
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Post by dunbnwild on Feb 20, 2009 10:36:32 GMT -5
LOL--Not sure what the appeal of the back feet in the bucket is--but Wickee sure is funny.
I can't leave any sort "toys" in my pasture or my young ones will start playing around with them. I don't dare let the water tanks get beolw half full.
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Post by fantasykiger on Feb 20, 2009 22:34:12 GMT -5
If I don't leave toys out there to entertain them, then they start making plans for escape...LOL ;D
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Post by canadiankigers on Feb 20, 2009 23:31:24 GMT -5
Bill actually has the opposite problem. This winter we had a real bad blow and a tree fell across the back pasture fence. He cleaned up the tree and went into the house to warm up and when he came back out, there was Honey, Sally and fuzzy standing at the gate waiting for him. They would look back at the downed fence, look back at him and then back at the fence as if to say ..... "well, aren,t you going to fix it?." They kept this up for about an hour until Bill finally got the fence fixed. These Kigers cease to amaze me. Just when you think you know their personalities, they go and throw you a curve. LOL!!!!
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Post by 1Kiger on Feb 24, 2009 17:58:33 GMT -5
wow. I wish my Kiger mare would be confident enough to try that. My QH gelding loves to play with buckets, stepping in them and on them, but Maddie is not that kind of horse. She did learn the trick of splashing water on her chest, so she is always playing in the water now. Maddie is going to be with her trainer for the month of March to get polished up for the 2009 riding season. Meanwhile, I'll be in Ottawa training with the Canadian Mounted Police for a couple of weeks. It'll be my first time for english riding lessons. Maddie would look slick in a black english saddle, but I still prefer my western ways. If anyone is interested, I'll blog about the Canadian experience during and after the seminar.
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Post by canadiankigers on Feb 24, 2009 19:09:21 GMT -5
I for one would love to see how you fare in the great white north. LOL!!!! Just let us know where your blog is.
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Post by DianneC on Feb 24, 2009 22:52:19 GMT -5
I love the fact that she quit when she saw you "who me? I'm not doin' nutin" Did you bring carrots?
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Post by lindad on Feb 24, 2009 23:39:55 GMT -5
Silly Wickee! What a girl! Because she can.
Chica likes to entertain herself by kicking the water trough when it is half empty with her head in it. The water actually vibrates so much that the water jumps and mists her face. Her buddy, Jerry the mule puts his head in also, to enjoy the sound and spray she creates. They played this game for 20 minutes at a time last summer.
Bolero chases his plastic barrels around even at 3:00 am. My poor neighbor about went nuts for several weeks after Bo got them, checking out his furnace and plumbing in the middle of the night trying to figure out what the noise was, not realizing the noise was Bo chasing his barrel.
My daughter"s zonkeys like to play tug of war with the rubber feed pans. They were tearing them apart so Lisa had to bring them in. Now her blue heeler collects the pans and takes them to the barn, but enjoys his job so much he doesn't want to let them finish eating, before he goes to work.
Lisa has a sulcata tortise that is about 30lbs that likes to follow her around the pasture when she mucks. Lisa went to toss a forkfull of manure and missed the wheelbarrow because it had moved. The tortise tried to go under the cart and her shell just pushed against the axle moving the cart along.
That sure would be upsetting to Cola my mini donkey because he has been working on pushing my identical cart for over a year. He has tried many ways to get that cart to move but just hasn't discovered the secret of pushing the handle down while going forward. I'll never get chores done if he does. He will back up and poop directly into the cart when I am mucking. He loves to try to use my tools, steal hats, and brings me his curry when he wants to be brushed.
Linda D
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