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Oh my goodness happy birthday! This is so generous of you, would be perfect for my mare I just GMTed chocolate. Plus I love leopard apps!


I have four pets at home- two dogs (3 yo pembroke welsh corgi, hence the name and a 6 mo GSP) and two cats- both female and inside only (one calico one a Siamese tortie mix) and we just got a tank of fish two weeks ago! My first time owning fish and so far all 11 are still alive! They are Tetras and Danios and are all glo fish (it’s a glo tank) the decor, fish and rocks all are neon and glow under blue light

Oh goodness he's amazing looking!

Um...let's see. Embarrassing moment with my horse? Well, he's many years gone now, but one time my horse Beau decided to randomly duck into the round pen as we walked by because the door was open. Well, it was one of those gates with a bar across the top, you know? And I wasn't sure I could clear it so I leaned back, grabbed it, and let him walk out from under me.

He was very confused and honestly, so was I.

Happy birthday! My story isn’t about a particular embarrassing moment, but about my most generally embarrassing horse. I have several horses (more than I will admit in polite company, in fact). All but one of them are, in my admittedly biased opinion, magical unicorns. And then there is Cody. He came into my life almost twelve years ago, when a family member who had always wanted a gaited horse bought what was supposed to be a 19 y/o saint of a TWH. He turned out to be a TWH, but that was about it. Hopelessly barnsour, dumber than a post, and, in the words of the first vet who did his teeth, older than dirt. But he was the horse who helped me get my confidence back after years out of the saddle, because I could handle his low-level shenanigans. And I knew we had a Black Stallion kind of relationship from the start, because I was the only rider he never tried to rub off on a tree. I have never met a stupider horse in my life. When I rode him, I had to be the eyes, ears, and brains, because he’d be so busy fighting me that he wouldn’t look where he was going. Once, he almost tipped us into a very steep washed out ditch because he was throwing a sideways tantrum. And he’s been known to get stuck in the corners of pastures he’s lived in for years because he tries to take the most direct line from point a to point b and forgets where the gates are. Few things spook him, because they are over before he has time to realize they’re happening. But, on the rare occasion something registers in that pea-sized brain, beware. He will freak out with no regard for his safety...or yours. And it will take a good half hour before he comes down from it. He is also a jerk. Open a gate, and he will knock you over to get through it, even if you are deliberately letting him out. Let him in the barn in bad weather, and he will refuse to leave afterwards...and knock you over spinning around to go back to his stall. He cannot be wormed without snubbing his head down, with you on the other side of a good, strong fence. He has a history of being horrible to other horses. He’s not dominant, but, when he sees an advantage, he takes it. He terrorized my lovely little TB mare when she was in the middle of her just-off-the-track letdown and not feeling 100%. And he is not sweet to people either. Well, he got cuddlier in his extreme old age, but his typical response to human affection was to yawn, fart, and walk away. And the farting. I should probably mention that, too. His nickname is Fartacus, because he is the most flatulent horse I have ever met. Long, drawn out farts unlike anything I or even my more experienced friends have heard. And did I mention that he is a jerk? And yes, I am speaking of him in the present tense because the old cuss is still going strong. Only the good die young, after all. He is retired now, and partially blind, but he is still fat and flatulent and shambling about in his idiotic old man way. We are convinced he is the oldest horse in the world, but of course it can’t be proven because he can never be useful. And on our very last ride before he was retired for good, he tried to buck me off.

The only pet I have anymore (aside from my horses) is a little yellow parakeet I found lost in a parking lot years ago. His name is Cornelius. He’s pretty independent and doesn’t really like being messed with, but he’s a happy sociable guy. He loves his mirror toys!

Happy birthday!

I have a dog, and lizard. I will tell you about the lizard. So munchie is my Chunky leopard gecko, he (I think) is about 3years old. I noticed before I left for work that he was out of water so I was filling his bowl and for some god aweful and hilarious reason he decided to attacck and try to eat his water. he then proceded to sit on his rock all sexy like, and flipped out when I got close.

Happy birthday! Don't have any horses :( one day, but I do have a dog named Daisy who is turning 4 this month as well. Andnd a cat named Mayhem, she just turned 9. Mayhem has gotten into a lot of situations over the years ,she earned her name.
I had to move in with my sister and her kids, after ending an abusive relationship. The house she was renting at the time was an old two story and had a lot of crawl spaces. So Mayhem would disappeared into the crawlspace of the house to explore. The first few times it freaked me out, cause I didn't know where she was, did she run away and all that stuff, but she has always come back. This one time my sister was cook some ground beef and we kept hearing this meowing, so we were looking and looking around the kitchen for her, only to see fur sticking out of the vent above the stove. That was fun trying to get her out of there....

I vote Outback!
Anyhow, I too have gotten my shirt and I'm embarrassed to say my bra as well stuck on the saddle horn. So not only did I give them a show :\"> but had to have major help as well. Yep. It was truly an unforgettable moment! The crazy thing is it wasn't even my horse I was riding. I was at a boarding stable that did trail rides. We all had a good laugh once it was over!

Hey, my 28th birthday is in nine days! Happy birthday, fellow Goat-Goat! (We're Capricorns, ie goats, and also born in the Chinese year of the Goat, since that reference probably wouldn't be clear to anybody but me, lol. The Goatiest Goats to ever Goat.)
That boy is gorgeous and perfect and I'd love a straw! 238452, please.
I have two dogs, two cats, and a snail. The cats are a pair of litter mates that I got kind of by accident six years ago. I'm a farm kid, and had just married a soft-hearted animal-loving guy from a mid-sized town, and when we went to my parents' farm over Thanksgiving it didn't occur to me that I should maybe be careful about the way I said "Oh look, October born kittens. They won't survive the winter out here." I meant that since we lived in the nearest town with a really good, no-kill shelter, which was an hour away, we should take them back there when we left so my parents didn't have to worry about it. They were adorable and fluffy, they'd have found homes in no time. He apparently heard "Oh look, we have cats now." And oh look, we have cats now *facepalm*. I think it would have worked a little better if Violet hadn't been obscenely cute and stolen his heart immediately, and if we had been able to just take them and drop them off instead of needing to catch and tame them first. But yeah, we have cats now. And I love them very much even though they eat my plants and steal my socks and try to hunt the robot vacuum that we have because they shed and I'm allergic to them.

Happy Birthday! I do not own any horses but we do raise cattle and we custom feed pigs. I have two dogs. One is a shorkie named, Bentley. The other one is a Norwegian Elkhound named Lady. I hope your birthday was amazing and filled with love and joy. My Id is 215251 thank you.

Happy Birthday!

What a gorgeous stallion! I'd love a straw please. 257347

I had a pony as a child, but can't remember a particularly embarrassing moment, so I'll share something livestock related.

I raise sheep and like any other crazy person who can't do anything halfway, a few years ago, decided to train my own Border Collie. Green sheep, green dog, green person, what could go wrong? At least I was smart enough to find a trainer to take weekly lessons.

A little background on Border Collies: They LOVE to control movement. They also have the natural instinct to bring you whatever they are herding. Now this isn't always sheep or cattle. It might be other dogs, chickens, flying birds, the trickle of moving water from a tank overflowing, or even the next door neighbor's kids.

As a puppy, my boy Dru's herding instincts turned on long before I intended to start him on sheep. First he tried kittens... he learned the truth about herding cats. Then he tried the circling buzzards one day while I was fixing fence. :-? Finally he discovered toads. One day he managed to get three together in the middle of the driveway and attempted to hold them there. While toads aren't uncommon here, you can go for days without seeing one. Now toads never read the book on flocking instinct and as any little kid who's played with toads knows, eventually they quit hopping when you get close and/or nudge them. I can only imagine how difficult it was to gather those three together.

Fast forward a few months to his actual training on sheep. Dru was the second dog I started and I still occasionally concentrated too much on him and not enough on the sheep. The downside of this was occasionally getting blindsided by the "Velcro" training sheep running to me. I've had my share of falls from being clipped by sheep, stumbles from sheep walking on my heels and moments when walking backwards and one steps on my toe. The very best was surely video worthy. I'd sent my dog around the sheep and miscalculated my position in relation to the sheep. They hit me from behind flipping me clear over them and knocking the wind out of me. As I lay there looking up at the tree tops and clear blue sky contemplating getting up I hear screaming. Lie down! Lie Down! LIE DOWN! I hear incoming hoofbeats and sit up just as the sheep are coming in for a second pass. He'd gotten around them and brought them back again. I managed to stop him as he was turning them for a third pass.

Happy belated birthday!

I have one dog, one cat and about 25 rabbits as pets right now! I breed rabbits for showing, Holland Lops.

The funniest thing to happen with one of my current pets is probably my Holland doe Kacie. She has absolute ADHD, legit, and is a total dork. About half the time when I put her in her cage (usually with her rump in one hand and the other under her arms across her chest), she tends to tuck her head and do a literal somersault into her cage XD it freaks me out every time but then she just gets up and starting running around and it’s absolutely hilarious

Here's mine

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