Not my horse, but he lives at my house. Here he is, actually inside the fence for once. Oh and sorry the pictures aren't that great, he just wanted to put his face into the camera.
Not my horse, but he lives at my house. Here he is, actually inside the fence for once. Oh and sorry the pictures aren't that great, he just wanted to put his face into the camera.
There two are of Firecracker and Reba. She isn't as friendly and didn't want her picture taken, I had to bribe her with pears that day.
i like the pictures they look beautiful. Are they retired thoroughbreds? are they eating potatoes?
I know he is a Tennessee Walker. I'm not sure about her, my stepdad said that someone told him she was a TWH too. They are eating pears off a tree by my house(these photos are from last fall), they are pretty small and hard, slightly larger than a golf ball.
I feel bad his forelock looks so bad.... I had to cut it, he had about 700 burrs in it and I couldn't get them out. I don't know where he found burrs at.
Funny thing about how I had to get pictures of him, I had to run along the fence and he'd chase me because he just wanted to stare at me. My mom was laughing the whole time, though she is scared to death of horses. I love him.
Last edited by Flanders; 05-27-2012 at 09:26 PM.
Firecracker is an exceptional escape artist. He can get out of the barn when he is locked inside with no indications of HOW he got out. They had to replace the gate because after watching how it was opened a couple times, he just let himself out. Since being replaced by a rounded post gate, he can't quite figure out the chain latch. So he just figured out how to get out of the regular fence. As you can see from the above pictures, it is four different strands of fencing wire, that doesn't phase him at all. He readily goes in and out as he pleases. Thankfully Reba hasn't figured it out.
He has always been a regular attendee of any party of have. We'll have a campfire and be sitting around it in camp chairs and all of the sudden, he just comes walking up and stands in between two of the chairs and watches the fire with us. I've always had to watch him in these situations because he will steal the bag of marshmallows and no one wants a marshmallow after he has been nomming on the bag.
Another, well 2, funny stories, my mom is scared to death of him. Why? Even she doesn't have an answer, she says horses scare her. Anyway, when I go on vacation she feeds my cat and has to drive my stepdad's truck back my driveway. Firecracker KNOWS the truck. My stepdad really likes him and brings him treats a lot, so the horse knows his truck. If he is out, he runs over and waits by the truck. My mom WILL NOT get out of the truck. This time she got something in her contact and wanted to get into my house to rinse her contact. So of course the horse runs over and stands against the driver door, just staring at her waiting. So she tries going across the seat to the passenger side to jump out and run. The horse just went around the truck and stood there waiting for her. She was so freaked out, she just threw her contacts out the window and left and made my stepdad go back with her later so they could feed the cat. The next time I went away, she drove back and saw the horse was out and thought, "I'll just park in the front yard right in front of the door and I'll be okay to get out and feed the cat." Yeah that didn't work, the horse came and stood between the front of the truck and my front door. LoL. She did get him to leave eventually by blowing the horn and telling him to leave. Then she hauled *** into my house. I really wish I could have seen this stuff, it would have been classic.
Last edited by Flanders; 05-27-2012 at 09:58 PM.
Flanders, thanks so much for sharing. I get such delight reading them. He's a beaut too. Thanks for taking the time. He must be one very smart horse. God bless the "cracker" and you! Keep the stories coming.Originally Posted by Flanders
BTW, what area are you in?
Pennsylvania, about 45 minutes north of Pittsburgh.
He looks like a firecracker! Even if he isn't "yours" he is
"My occupational hazard is my occupation is just not around". Jimmy Buffett
He looks like he's trouble, lol. And, the mare is trying to teach him manners
" I reject you reality, and substitute my own! " Mythbusters
"Sometimes, I think he's the King of Stupid" - Old Man "Pawn Stars"
"Oh, what fresh hell is this?!" - Sheldon Cooper- "Big Bang Theory"
I don't have any new pictures but I do have a new story.
Last week, I got home after work on Tuesday, I don't get off work until Midnight, so it was after that. Anyway, I drove the loop around my house, didn't see Firecracker anywhere, parked my Blazer and came inside. I was putting some stuff in the fridge and when I turned around and got the crap scared out of me. He was standing there staring in my front door. UGH, I hate when he does that. So I found him a treat and when outside and gave it to me. He hung around for 5 minutes, saw that I wasn't going to give him anything else and he left.
A couple more stories from the summer.
A couple weeks ago, I got up to get a drink at 8am, and looked out the back window. Firecracker was standing between the gate and the barn(about an 6-8 foot fence is between them). He was sound asleep and his front half was in the fence and the back half was out of the fence and he was leaning against a post my cousin put there to stop him from breaking out there.
Sometime in June, I got a knock on my door, it was my aunt and my cousin's wife. They asked if I had a hammer and if I could come help them because Firecracker was stuck. The people who lease the farm land had made round bales and had put them in the barn, the horse was behind them. So we had to pop a board out so he could go into the other part of the barn, because it really didn't look like he could get by the round bales. It was really funny watching my aunt trying to talk the horse into going under the board before we popped it off. She was talking to him like a kid and showing him how to do it. Two days later, my cousin's wife went to feed them and Firecracker was outside and he ran into that part of the barn again behind the round bales. So they had to put a board across the front so he can't get in there now. Even at this point, my aunt didn't think the horse escapes all the time, even though I told her that.
A month or so ago, my aunt walked back on a Friday evening with her dog, she asked me to hold his leash so she could go see the horses. So I walked down with her, the dog was barking until I told him to go meet Firecracker who was leaning over the fence to smell him. The dog promptly shut up and backed away. It was getting about dusk and I told my aunt, yeah its about breaking out time. She has never believed me that he breaks out. So he breaks out with us standing like 10 feet away. She is freaking out, saying "What should we do?!?!?" And I said, "Screw it, not wasting my time putting him in, he'll be back out in 5 minutes." So she gave up trying to talk me into putting him back in and left.
Two weeks ago, my mom and stepdad stopped back the day before my b-day to tell my Happy B-day. We are talking and the horse broke out. I thought my mom was going to start crying, he didn't come up to visit though. He just went and started eating the grass on the greener side.
Love that horse...and your stories.
My cousin was back cleaning the barn and feeding the horses last weekend. He had been here for maybe 10 minutes, Firecracker was already out of the fence. So I opened up my back window and yelled down, "hey one of your horses ran away!" Firecracker's head came up and he ran across the yard.
Though these photos are from a different day, this is what happens when he sees me in my window. I will admit I was the one who started this.. I didn't know what I was starting, he was standing near the back of my house, so I grabbed an apple and handed it to him out the window. Now he thinks its a drive through..
Last edited by Flanders; 02-16-2013 at 01:44 AM.
If you look up the word trouble in the dictonary, you see his picture
" I reject you reality, and substitute my own! " Mythbusters
"Sometimes, I think he's the King of Stupid" - Old Man "Pawn Stars"
"Oh, what fresh hell is this?!" - Sheldon Cooper- "Big Bang Theory"
This horse and your stories are adorable.
What beautiful horses.
How are they doing?
They were doing good last time I went to the barn to give them an apple. They are kept in the barn mostly in the winter, so I don't see them unless I go down. Firecracker does pick on Reba all the time when they are out though. I couldn't figure out what I was hearing the one day, it was her squealing because Firecracker was picking on her. He wants to play, she just wants to be left alone.
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