>>> When he was here he groomed all the mares even Stella who was very bossy >>> and did not want the others near her. I am sure she misses him alot as >>> it was the only time she got groomed by another horse.
He's gotten along pretty well with about all the horses here. I'm migrating back to having a mare pasture and a gelding pasture, since I'll soon have a stallion on the property again - the young stallion seems pretty docile, but if he should get out of his paddock, it would be bad enough for him to breed some mares - I don't need a gelding/stallion fight too. >>>He does love one-upmanship though. He can be both grumpy and very >>>humorous. He's a smart cookie, that's for sure - one of the smartest horses I've encountered. Cary and I did the leapfrog thing on the trail today, and it was good for both. Tivar seems to prefer leading, and Brunka prefers following, so they got to switch places along. They both did great with the role reversal. At one point, Cary and Brunka passed us, and Cary was leading her, so he could pull a limb off the trail. Teev stopped the second I asked, but when Brunka went to pass him, he pulled the reins a little to show he was impatient. Then, he saw what Cary was going to do, and it was like, "Oh, we're doing this for a reason." Then he was perfectly content to stand until the trail was clear. I think his grumpy days are mostly past - he's still what I'd call opinionated, and I guess that's my weakness - I love a horse who thinks about things enough to have an opinion about trail things. :) Karen Thomas, NC
