19 thoughts on “You can lead a horse to water… but then what happens?”

  2. Fun. And she has nobody but herself to blame…

    It looks cold out, but the girl doesn’t have a coat so looks must be deceiving. I hope so, considering how wet she got.

    The horse was mimicking to begin with, I think — but it looks to me like it began to enjoy the activity for its own sake.

    1. My all time favorite: a young ape was pushed into water by another young, then the mama and papa apes run to rescue…

    2. It’s fascinating the way the ‘roo jumps up with its hind legs, uses its tail as a stabilising prop while it kicks the kid into the water, then lands on its feet again.

      Clever beast!

  6. I was expecting a trick/surprise, like the horse didn’t want to go near the water, the girl tries to show it is safe, then a huge crocodile leaps out and grabs the girl – preferably photoshopped.

  7. In my younger days when I lived in the mountains I used to do a lot of trail riding. Many times I’ve crossed rivers on horseback, sometimes quite deep ones. The first thing a horse is likely to do when you get across is to shake like a d*g, and you’d better be ready for it.

    I still keep two horses that are nothing but useless, expensive pets, but I like having them around. Maybe I’ll send some photos to Jerry.

  9. That’s just lovely. That horse is enjoying itself enormously, you can almost hear it thinking, “yippee!”

  11. Both of my Thoroughbred geldings would play in the water like that – typically they would stop in the middle of a puddle or stream and refuse to walk forward until they’d splashed around a little (or sometimes a lot – I got soaked many times). One year when the lower part of his paddock flooded, the chestnut gelding swam across the resulting pond to visit the mares in the next paddock. We had to move him to another paddock temporarily because we were afraid he might get tangled in the fence that normally separated the two pastures (he certainly wasn’t going to stop swimming across the pond to go snuggle and squeal with the mares).

    Both my chestnut gelding and a friend’s Quarter horse mare also enjoyed playing in the water troughs, so much so that they’d rear up and put their entire front end in the trough. Our troughs were heavy-duty plastic and the horses never hurt themselves playing like this, but they both destroyed several automatic watering floats.

    I still have one TB mare, of my original trio, and she has never liked walking or cantering through water of any sort. She’s very adept at dodging puddles, and better pay attention if you’re riding after a rain, else you might part company and land in the water!

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