Baaaaaby Cooooolt!
Jul. 2nd, 2006 11:51 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dancinghorseThis week has been lost in Baby Brain--getting us all used to the shift in routine, and teaching babymonster (who has a name but I should clear it with the other half of the ownership pool before making public--she's away for the long weekend) all about scrrrrrritchies. I had worried that he would take a long time to civilize, but after arriving on Tuesday, by Wednesday evening he was allowing me to scritch his butt through the fence. By Friday I was allowed to be in the same space while rubbing him all over. Since then he's been coming up to me and being more or less a normal in-your-face DHF babymonster.
His mom came into heat shortly after arrival. Pooka tried to do something about it Friday, mare said NO!, so Saturday they spent a lot of time interacting over the fence. Today I put them out together--watching carefully to be sure the baby would be OK. We have video here and here. Note how mom keeps a weather eye on the proceedings.
For those who haven't seen stallions in a herd situation, this can be fairly boggling. This is what a stallion is supposed to be like. Amazing, isn't it?
I grabbed some stills off the video, too (still haven't figured out how to get the higher-res version).
So much for the Fierce Aggressive Stallion Who Will Go After His Offspring And Eat It:
In case you thought the first one was a fluke:
Boy play while mom makes sure nobody gets fresh:
A very muddy Pooka swaps war stories with the kid after a good hard roll (we'd had a short downpour a few minutes before):
And as a bonus: Post-roll, Pooka throws in a little extravagance. Even covered with mud, the Platonic archetype of the My Little Pony rules.
His mom came into heat shortly after arrival. Pooka tried to do something about it Friday, mare said NO!, so Saturday they spent a lot of time interacting over the fence. Today I put them out together--watching carefully to be sure the baby would be OK. We have video here and here. Note how mom keeps a weather eye on the proceedings.
For those who haven't seen stallions in a herd situation, this can be fairly boggling. This is what a stallion is supposed to be like. Amazing, isn't it?
I grabbed some stills off the video, too (still haven't figured out how to get the higher-res version).
So much for the Fierce Aggressive Stallion Who Will Go After His Offspring And Eat It:
In case you thought the first one was a fluke:
Boy play while mom makes sure nobody gets fresh:
A very muddy Pooka swaps war stories with the kid after a good hard roll (we'd had a short downpour a few minutes before):
And as a bonus: Post-roll, Pooka throws in a little extravagance. Even covered with mud, the Platonic archetype of the My Little Pony rules.
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Re: ZOMG!! MORE PLEASE!!
Date: 2006-07-04 09:43 pm (UTC)We'll work on getting more soon. :)
Re: ZOMG!! MORE PLEASE!!
Date: 2006-07-04 11:00 pm (UTC)...Fortunately I'm too asthmatic now to give him all the attention he's going to need...
But I did send his videos to a friend who breeds....
Gods, but he's GORGEOUS!!
*Best*,
--Meri
Re: ZOMG!! MORE PLEASE!!
Date: 2006-07-05 01:16 am (UTC)