Dirty Pictures

[CarolU]

Mud.....to be exact!!! 8" deep in some places! This place is disgusting!

Here, Bruiser plays in the mud with poor Aunt Rosie. My newest training assistant. What IS funny, is that I set that cone on him all the time when I'm cleaning corals. LOL

http://gallery.pethobbyist.com/data/23115BruiserRosieCone.jpg

BTW - before you shed big tears for Rosie, he was sleeping this afternoon (in the mud) and she reached through the fence and nipped him...So I'm thinking she enjoys most of the play too.

[Colette C]

He seems like quite a personality! And Miss Rosie, looks like she might find some humor in him ;-)

[appyday]

OMG I almost fell out of my chair :lol:

[jodiTowne]

Thats too cute!!!!

[Pasofinoguy]

how cute bff

[Terry Wallace]

Great shots Carol...I hope you filmed it for "America's Funniest Animal Videos" !! :D

[CarolU]

No video...just the stills, although there are more in the 'series.' I have some from the other day when he was trying the same game with Auntie Zar. Zar has NO sense of humor though, and turns into the Alien queen, which, Bruiser being Bruiser, he could care less and just keeps pestering.

[RVF_Pasos]

Haha! Those pictures are too cute. They made me laugh. What a character he is! :lol:

And by the way, I can relate with the mud issue. We also have tons of terrible mud... it’s such a pain! Thankfully we are now getting some snow, but it is still muddy underneath. :mad:

[Carol Nelson]

Ha...that was just adorable!!! I agree, what a character he is! And Rosie is so patient with him. She is quite the little gal too!
I just LOVE watching that little guy grow up! Thanks for posting, Carol! :D

[CarolU]

As you can see, he has no luck with Aunt Zar (but we do love her Alien Queen look when she's PO'd at him!)

http://gallery.pethobbyist.com/data/23115BruiserNZar.jpg

And, just so you realize, this is a two ring circus. This was the same evening in the Boy's pasture. This is Buddy, first with Santiago and then with Diablo. You can guess why I want to put them together again?? LOL

http://gallery.pethobbyist.com/data/23115BuddyNBoys-med.JPG

[Linda Y]

Too funny! I just can't believe how much like Jazz he is! :lol: :lol: :lol:

[Terri]

Wait a minute. He actually picked up the cone and put in ON Rosie?? He is smart. Watch him! He will be openning gaits and taking himself for walks pretty soon.

[CarolU]

Yes, he picked it up and put it on her, then he moved it around on top of her...and she even walked around with it on for a minute before it fell off. He picked it up and tried again, but didn't make it the second time.

Oh, he's smart. He already opened his first gate...and it was a pull in gate, not a push for him. Remember the pictures of Bella CLOSING the gate to keep him in the coral? Gates are something he comes by naturally. Now, I just have to tap into the rest of Bella's genes. She was such a sweetheart.

Linda...who is Jazz...and where are the pictures???

[TrueStepPaso]

Too funny....looks like the game of choice over there is "I Will Now Place This Thing On Your Back." :D

[PasoJoy]

How can you not love that Bruiser boy??? :rofl

[Linda Y]

Linda...who is Jazz...and where are the pictures???

Jazz is the Paint I mentioned in another thread. I had a cone for him too, but it was one of the big traffic cones. He used to run around beating his brother with it! :lol: He is the one that taught himself to take off his saddle blankets. THAT was sure a hit when I took him for his beginning training! I had a video of him doing the blanket thing, but have no idea what happened to it. I don't have him any more.

[CarolU]

How can you not love that Bruiser boy??? :rofl

See those bottom two pictures? Look at those EARS!!! Now, doesn't he look like the Devil himself???? He's a bugger!!!

....and all I ever wanted was another sweet little buckskin filly. :-?

[paintedhorizon]

I can't get over how similar in looks Zar and Pazarro are!

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y65/jklawitter/Paso%20Fino/pazarro-1.jpg

Funny how Zar won't play seeing as she really wanted him when he was born!

You know Carol, Stella has a beautiful little sooty buckskin filly that is almost 2!

[Laura S]

Bruiser is such a riot!! Thanks for posting the pics!

[CarolU]

Thanks Michelle...actually, thanks everyone. I have to admit that he's VERY entertaining!!! (being photogenic helps too though!)

Zar and Pizarro look a LOT alike. I think I could pass his pictures off as her to most people. Few would notice the difference.

Zar has NO PLAY DRIVE. Never has. I've had her for years and she has never opened a gate, ratttled a chain, played with a heater, untied a knot. Actually, in Parelli, this is my biggest challenge with her, because so many things are based on the horse taking the iniative...like pushing the ball.

Now...you don't think Stella would trade me one sweet littly sooty buckskin filly for one VERY naughty -- but fun -- little boy???? To be totally honest, the men in my life (farriers, hay man) love him to death and think he's the "best horse on the place." They just LOVE him. LOL

[dana]

Great Pictures, Carol! i'd say you have your work cut out for you with that boy just trying to stay one step ahead of him!

[paintedhorizon]

It's like they are twins! Paz won't play either! And he is SO intent on Stella! You can always tell where she is on the farm just by looking at him, he's always watching her!

Nah, you know you don't want to get rid of Bruiser! Then what would you do for fun? :lol:

[Camilla]

It's funny about the sense of humour and "play drive" that some have and some don't. I always describe horses as whether they are "serious" or not (like to play or not) and folks don't always get what I am talking about. I love that about my stallion - that he likes to play and has a great sense of humour... but it often just looks like naughtiness when I see it through other's eyes.
Hard to explain that he is not trying to bite you... he just wants to undo your zipper or pull your hoodie toggle or whatever.
I end up laughing at the non-playful ones, too, because their seriousness is so funny. I describe our gelding, Passion, as "all-business" because he only wants to "go forward - no silliness" (that last quote has to be said in a robotic monotone to get it). really it's all hard to explain, but those with silly horses and serious horses know what I am talking about.