Dawn has a rottie named Lilly that she brings when she trims. Last Sunday she brought her to the new barn for the first time, so our boys haven't seen her in a while.
Peanut doesn't like dogs. I suppose that it's not surprising that he shouldn't like a predator, but as far as I know dogs really haven't done much to him. Well... there was that huge rat terrier that used to bite Peanut's nose as he grazed at our first barn, but Peanut took care of that one day by repeatedly rearing and trying to smash the little doggie with his front feet. Didn't succeed, but the dog left him alone after that.
There are 3 dogs at Stonehill (a rot and two shepherdy mixes), and occasionally they get rowdy and chase the horses when their owners aren't looking. Most of the horses go running, but Peanut usually stands his ground and meets them with flying feet. If we're grazing, and a dog wanders up, Peanut will lazily kick out a back foot whenever they come near.
At trims, Lilly is impeccably behaved around horses. She wants nothing more than to say hi and eat the trimmings. This time, she said hi to Peanut by licking him on the nose - which took him greatly by surprise. After that, if she got near enough, he would lunge at her with his teeth. If she wasn't that close, he would just glare at her until she started to whimper. Every time she got near Peanut (must eat hoof trimmings), she would start looking like a beaten dog and start whimpering as soon as Peanut would turn his head in her direction.
He never liked her much in the past, but I don't remember him trying to bite her. However, he did always say something with his body language that would bring out whimpering. As for Gene, he doesn't give a shit and Lilly is her usual silly rottie self around him.
In other news, Dawn was able to bring back Gene's front toes over 1/2 inch! He was really pulling them back, which makes me so glad. She won't lower his heels any more, though, since she doesn't want to do anything that could encourage contraction. She'll just let the foot do what it would like for a bit, and what it likes seems to be moving the toe. :)
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Some horses just don't like dogs. Dixie and Poppy both try to bite or trample dogs when they think I'm not looking - at least Cersei and Lucky have learned to read horse body language and know to run!
The main barn has a new stray, a big ole mix puppy. You know that age where they're full weight but still act like retarded puppies? Yeah, when I got on Dixie for my lesson today the new dog could not resist chasing us so we cantered in circles for a loooong time til somebody caught the dog. I was quite impressed that she didn't kick the dog's head in. I wasn't really mad about it; it's what dogs do! And Dixie settled right down after that.
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