On Thu, Nov 08, 2007 at 05:13:05PM -0500, Karen Thomas wrote: > It's really a BAD idea to put a cat on a horse's back - ESPECIALLY with a > horse tied. I can almost promise you, eventually the cat will start to slip > and the claws will instinctively come out...Suffice to say that Emily really > was only at the ER a few hours that day, probably in 1990. How DO kids > manage to grow up anyway? She was really a responsible, caring, > animal-loving kid. Still is, but that wasn't one of her shining moments. > She later admitted later that it wasn't the first time she'd done it, but it > was the first time the cat slipped.
our barn cats, mia and maypo, will jump onto stjarni's back unsolicited. they really seem to like it up there. he seems not to mind. i don't think they do this with any other horse at the barn, at least not that i've seen... --vicka (who was quite shocked, the first time :)
