This message is from: Robin Churchill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Just thinking about what Marsha said about her fjords taking cues from other horses. When our fjords arrived two years ago, we had them shipped to a friends due to the potential difficulties with getting into our place with a tractor-trailer and crossing the causeway with one, i.e. without a permit they wouldn't allow the driver to cross with them. The friend had several horses and when the fjords saw them, they acted like they were scared to death. It was kind of like they were asking, "where have you taken us? Obviously it is a terrible place something has turned the horses brown and made them grow big" I assumed maybe they hadn't seen other kinds of horses before. It was the same thing when I brought my warmblood gelding from the boarding stable after I had already installed the fjords at home. He was closer to their color but is pretty huge. At first they seemed afraid, then Ulyssa who was about 15 months old at the time started bossing him around. Eventually the! warmblood realized that he was bigger than them and didn't have to put up with a little pony-sized thing pushing him around but it took awhile. Now, of course they have been a bunch of places and don't seem too fazed by other types of horses. That being said, the two fjords have always remained the best of friends. They will hang around with the warmblood if one or the other is gone but when the other fjord gets back they are almost velcroed together. So it seems like they really like their own kind of horse.
Robin in Florida The FjordHorse List archives can be found at: http://tinyurl.com/rcepw
