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Friday July 24 2009
Owyhee Smoke Signal is almost 6 weeks old now.
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Smokey is pretty smart, as she'll let you touch her all over, and she's already doing very basic natural horsemanship ground work - moving from pressure, letting me throw a rope all over her. Her reward is scratching, because she loooooooooooooves being scratched all over.
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Smokey and her mom Princess have been hanging out with various herdmates, and the other day, Steph turned a few of them out in the big pasture together. Stormy stuck close by to keep an eye on the little Grasshopper.
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The herd drifted up the little hill and out of sight for a while, and then Princess and Smokey came running back down to the house by themselves.
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Smokey whinnied as she ran along, "Uncle Ssstttttooooorrrrmmmmmyyyyyy!" (She's very vocal - she calls to everybody, horses and humans.)
And conscientiously, Stormy came cantering over the hill and back to mama and baby, making sure all was okay.
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Smoky runs and plays,
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leaps and bucks,
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grazes like the big horses,
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She comes up to me for more scratches. Stormy follows.
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I'd have to agree, she is pretty friendly. And pretty smart. And pretty darn cute. Possibly the best horse baby in the whole world. And I am not biased, only making an objective observation.
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