Best friends * horse/kitty pictures

These are not the greatest quality but I have been trying to get them for a while and with my camera phone no less but still, I think they are cute. These two, cat Eric and horse Nova are the best of friends. He can get on her back and she does not care. She spends a great deal of time licking him until he is all wet and she chews on his ears. They are so cute together and I thought you might enjoy these pictures.







Love in the barn. :loveya:

I love hearing about animal friendships. They are very cute together.

They are quite a pair. The mutual grooming is funny to watch. I get really nervous when Nova chews on Eric's ears or his little stub tail. So far so good, nobody has ever been hurt and they really enjoy each other.

a horse that gets spooked could be very dangerous, but other than that it is a lovely friendship. I hope the two of them are pals for years to come.

I have 7 horses but usually only have 5 at my farm. Most of them are OK with the cats but one cranky mare hates them. Everyone, including the cat who loves the horses, keep a distance between themselves and her. I am always amazed at how they read each other.

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and feel just like that every day. Awwwwwww. Thanks. :hi:

Brody is currently asleep with Buddy, and they both loo so happy it makes ME happy.

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This literally made my day. :Hi:

used to love our old barn cat. The cat would rub on the horse's nose all the time, and the horse would pick the cat up by the tail and just sort of gently swing him back and forth! The cat loved it - but he was always a glutton for punishment, I think...

It's the horse we trained to fetch a little stuffed toy, by the way, so I wonder if he was just practicing his technique! :7

I have a trick horse but he has not done any fetching. Hmmmmm, that would be fun to teach him. At least my cats have little tails so I don't think he could get a good hold.

I do have an old horse who likes to swing sticks and long weeds that have clods of dirt on the bottom. He swings and lets go to bonk one of the others. It is pretty darn funny the look on his face when he gets up to that.

Horses can be pretty funny. So how did you teach him to fetch?

(formerly known as operant conditioning). It's FUN and when you have a clever horse (or any other creature), he'll catch on immediately! "Don't Shoot the Dog" by Karen Pryor, is a good place to start, if you haven't already...

my baby horse. She responds to the cue, "ex, exx, exxxx, exxxxxxx, excellent." It was wonderful to get her to focus when I started ground breaking her. Thanks, I do not have that book it sounds like I should get it. My horses are all brilliant of course. :eyes:

our pony, of course, is the MOST brilliant (he's a one-eyed Haflinger) ... knows when the electric fencer has shorted out - and over the fence into the neighbor's garden he goes! That's not a very original pony trick, though :7

We've used the clicker for our llamas, horses and dogs - though never enough to teach them more than just goofy little stuff. But that horse just LOVES to see his little stuffed monkey brought out - that's his favorite toy to fetch! (ok, well he did bite the little plastic nose right off of it...) He'd roll the little monkey around on the ground until the nose (as big as a pea) was up where he could grab it, and then he'd use his front teeth to pick it up by the nose... what a goofball! :7

and amusing. I have one who would pop out the slats on the vinyl fence and escape until I secured them better. Then I would find only the middle slat pushed out but all the horses were inside. One day I found him inside, waiting in his stall for food as usual but it was a cool morning and I noticed he was breathing a little hard and steaming a little. Sure enough, it was wet and I could follow his tracks all over the farm and the all of a sudden they spread out and became deeper as he ran back to skinny back into the dry lot. He could hear my truck, it did not have a muffler.

Mine are not quite big enough to try to jump the fence, they are Quarters. Haflingers are huge but very sweet and very smart.

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That so sweet. :)

I don't even trust the horse not to bite me when she gets to licking me, I don't know how this little cat does but he does love her.

when the horse gets on its back? :shrug:

but he is mighty. :D

I am a real softy when I read stories like this or see pics. I remember there was a gorilla in a zoo somewhere who had a little cat for a best pal.
Sometimes I am ashamed to be human.