Guess the Flea Circus was the First....

I have never seen something like this. It's amazing how the longer I study animals, the more I find examples of how those "things" have more consciousness going on than they are normally given credit for. We love our dogs, we love our cats. But chickens are just chickens, right? Lambs, cows, horses. I know, horse lovers know that horses are amazing, but non-horse people like myself, someone who has spent some time around them but just see them as big, unpredictable, potentially scary large muscled beings. Who knew this is how a horse would react to a big green ball:




Seems every few years we suddenly realize that dolphins are terribly intelligent and complex, then whales, then... what's next? Makes you wonder what other animal you've been underestimating!

Today's Giggle

How About a Twin Foal Cam

Here is a link to a mama horse who had a set of twins. One needed to have a kind of cast on first one front leg and then both because of soft knees. This was shortly after it was born, but with the exuberance that all newborn baby animals seem to have, it innocently accepted that this was the way it was and did a great job of hopping around after his or her sibling, nursing and taking naps in the nice hay.

This trio is lovingly cared for by a staff night and day, who you will see interact with them often, doing chores around them or attending to them. Check it out by CLICKING HERE or go to: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/sunnyandangeltwinfoals


Thank you to commenter and very good pal Laurie for sending me this link!

Dainty-poo

On the streets of New York, the police do their job by car, on foot, via bicycle and helicopter... and on horseback. Adding to the endless paradoxes found in this city, on occasion one sees, smells or steps in things that one would expect in a farm field but certainly not in a wildly opposite place like the neon and LED laden Times Square.

What drew me to take this pic was not so much that, but the subtler contrast of these dainty stances among the muck.

Adventures of Another Kind

I said I'd occasionally break to add tales of our month long honeymoon in New Zealand and Australia where we had many many many adventures in nature. We marveled when driving through the 2 islands that are NZ how fantastical the landscape was. It's not that Lord of the Rings was filmed there and so it now looks that way to me -- the movie was filmed there because the place holds a kind of magic everywhere you look. I almost felt like I saw faeries in the forests and gargoyles in the rocky desert mountains.

Here's a perfect example:
We were driving along in an area so lush and green crayola crayons super pack doesn't even make the color, and we saw three miniature horses. Maybe this is a known breed, but I've never seen anything like it before.

I was fully prepared to witness little hobbits pop out from under some mushrooms, jump on their back and ride away.