This message is from: "Warren Stockwell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
You gotta get a video of this!!! You could send it to America's Funniest Video's and maybe win enough to feed the fjords for a few years or even by another one or two!!! Camera or video never around when you need them. Roberta ----- Original Message ----- From: "Deb Williams" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <fjordhorse@angus.mystery.com> Sent: Wednesday, November 13, 2002 6:35 PM Subject: cats and Fjords, here' s our animal story > This message is from: "Deb Williams" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > We recently had a 3 month old kitten join our family, hopefully to be > the barn mouser. we have 8 Fjords and 1 Appie. First few days I feared for > the tiny fuzz ball as he would wonder under horses, lay in their hay while > they ate, and in general figured that horses were for his amusement. > Then "Snookums" got braver walking along the particians between stalls. > When a muzzle came near, he sometimes nuzzled them sometimes batted at them > with soft paws(no claws out). One day as I was brushing one of his herd, he > walked right over onto the horses back and sprawled out. not much reaction > from the very quiet mare who was in lala land over the brushing. Another > day silly Snookums decides the tuffs of hair on their feet are fun to play > with. That move did get a curious exam by the Fjord. We noticed that the > cat never seemed to approach the Appie except along the stall door, probably > a good thing. The Appie is 22 and can sometimes be flighty! > Then one day I was in the round pen working Senja, a new horse here with > not alot of training under her belt. I had been working on lateral flexion > exercises when I bring her head around to one side and ask her to soften. > One hand is at her withers and the other on her rump. She is a huge mare and > had her head way around to her girth, when suddenly there was a cat sitting > on my hand. I was startled, the mare only looked surprised but didn't jump. > She had probably seen the cat approaching but who would expect it jumping > up. Later back in the barn, I saw how the cat had gotten up there, he > climbed up her tail! I wouldn't believe it unless I had seen it. > Wish I had a camera! > Debi > Williams Hill Fjords > Waterford, Pa > Home of Tolgar,Belle and Levi,Hilda,Senja,Beckett,Rosie and Daniel