Horse and Dog are Friends

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I have a little hill cob called Willow and a fawn whippet called Cody. They get on quite well and are always pleased to see each other.

Anyway, this is a fairly amusing thing that happened the other day. I was mucking Willow out and had the yard gate shut and she was wandering around. I had also left the tackroom/feed shed door open. It is really just an old milking parlour with about 6 stalls in it. I keep tack in one stall, feed in another, hay in another etc etc and the rest of it is filled with farm gubbins.

Cody is a very quiet dog and rarely barks, which I like a lot. (I dislike yappy dogs) I was surprised to hear him barking very fiercely and turned around to see that he was barking at the parlour door. Willow was in there (again) checking out food possibilities. She does this a lot and she cant come to any harm as the feed is in heavy bins. But its tricky getting her to turn around and get out and Cody has seen my mild disapproval and driving her out with a slap on the bum.

So I went into the parlour and found Willow looking a bit sheepish and already turning herself round to leave :- " and I said "Willow, get out you big moose" and she squeezed past me. She got to the door and found the dog looking smug and priggish. She flattened her ears right back and snaked her head at him - he legged it round the yard with her coming after him (only at walk) with evil faces for a good five minutes.

I was so surprised that 1) Cody had the intelligence to know she was doing something "wrong" and 2) that Willow seemed to know he had told tales, spoiled her plan and she was taking mild revenge.

And yes, I know I am anthromophy-thingying but it was funny and seemed very similar to the way the kids used to behave when they were little.

 

[jinnyfizz]

They do know when the horses are being "bad"

My old GSD used to tell my shetland pony, Twiggy, off for rubbing her arse on the fence (she used to make it bend (w00t) ) and I would shout out at Twiggy and Tai would run across barking at her :lol: After a while I didn't have to shout ........... Tai would do the job for me :thumbsup:

The whippets know when my 4 month old foal kicks off too - they soon get out of the field (w00t)

 

[wilfred]

Love it! specially the description of Cody looking "smug and priggish" - whippets are good at that aren't they? "Muu-uu-uumm - the horse is in the larder AGAIN!"

 

[affieluver]

:lol: thats brilliant they do seem to know dont ask me how :lol:

 

[oakmoorehill]

Oh dear they do see to know when some ones doing something wrong.

Many years ago when my OH and I first got married we had my old mare my husbands arab a welsh mountain pony we bought from Beeston sales as a wild yearling filly and a very old coloured pony who used to be a school pony at the riding school that I used to work at. We ll Ringo the old pony could open any gate chain bolt he had 3 bolts on hois stable door all had to have clips on as he could open them all.

One day I had gone out riding and OH was working in the field. I hadn't locked the lock on the gate I had just hooked it on I forgot about Ringo. Our field gate opend onto a foot path with a locked gate at either end so they couldn't get out. In fact some time we let them graze on the path as long as no one was about we could see both ends. Anyway suddenly Cassie the mountian pony ran up to OH neighng to him he looked up to see were the others were Ringo and the arab Sadie were happily wandering of down the path OH went out and sent them back into the field. Old Rngo might have been old but he chased Cassie across the field with his ears slepped back and his teeth bared.