Peanut has a pasture buddy, as of yesterday. We are now boarding Spirit, an 8 month old Tennessee Walker colt who belongs to a friend. The introduction was really nice. Peanut was out in the pasture and we put Spirit in the field with him. Peanut was on the far side of the field so we called him in. He started trotting around the edge of the field, turned the corner, headed our way. Then Peanut saw Spirit and instantly stopped, body erect, ears forward, his full, total, complete attention on the new four legged critter in his pasture. After a few seconds he slowly approached, the horses sniffed each other, and that was that. Well, it was not quite that simple. Peanut let it be known that he was going to be in charge of the herd.
Peanut is only in the pasture for a couple of hours in the morning and again in the evening because he's a Welsh pony and he will eat too much. Spirit stays in the pasture 24/7. So when they are separated they sometimes neigh or whinny to one another and it's nice to hear.
John was out catching butterflies today when I took the picture.
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