Today my housemate and I were selling at a flea market/craft sale that borders horse farm. There were a couple of friendly horses that were being entertained by the customers at the sale. After watching these horses but up with barking dogs (including one lady that let her pug on of of those #$%&*ing flexilead things BITE AT one of the horses legs IN the pasture until I freaked out at her) I figured that these were pretty dog friendly horses and wanted to see how Ryuk would react walking past them.

We had our "security frisbee" and made a couple of passes at a heel then stood a the fence and watch the horses who resumed grazing in the middle of the pasture. As it turns out the horses were VERY dog friendly (not just dog tolerant) because one of them decided it wanted to get a closer look and wandered right up. Ryuk was interest but behaving so I had him sit, the horse sniffed him over and gave him a slobbery pony bath.

So Ryuk now officially thinks horses are the best thing in the world because they give you kisses, they make funny noises, and they smell GREAT. However they are also odd because they don't return play bows and snort in your face when they sniff the frisbee you offer them. Overall he did great. These guys were pretty bomb proof (which is why they were turned out in this particular field today during the flea market, the farm know there are dogs and lots of horse-stupid people) but for the average horse we need to work on moving a little slower and not wiggling and wagging so much when they bury their nose in your fur. We'll be doing some lessons with my housemate's gelding when we get a chance (currently he's at a no dogs allowed show barn...?) since he's very dog friendly.

They sound like nice horses. I'm glad it went well. It sounds like you and Ryuk had a great time.

Just a heads up...some horses *hate* dogs and will try to stomp/bite/kill them.

Even my horses, who are pretty mellow and usually just watch the dogs who wander through their pen, will occasionally try to stomp a dog. And my small pony will give a dog (or cat) a nice little rub on the back with her prehensile upper lip (funny) and then bite them a little bit (not funny).

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They sound like nice horses. I'm glad it went well. It sounds like you and Ryuk had a great time.

Just a heads up...some horses *hate* dogs and will try to stomp/bite/kill them.

Absolutely true! My friend's stepdad had a mare like that. She would actually allow my Keeshond in with her new born foals but any other dog she'd try to kill literally. I have no idea just why Misty was the only exception.

 Quote: Debbie Bruce

Just a heads up...some horses *hate* dogs and will try to stomp/bite/kill them.

oh I know that, however after watching these horses be obnoxious dog and stupid people friendly non-stop for 5 hours I felt comfortable with my dog (on short lead with a fence between us) near these horses...however the entire time I was there ready to pull my dog back and away and if needed body check a horse's head. These guys are regulars at the flea, they're turned out to keep people out of the pasture (for some reason people would let their dogs run in the pasture if there was no horse there) and are bombproof enough to trust with a bunch of idiots screaming at them and dog on flexi-leashes snapping at their heals. I thought for sure that pug was going to get stomped but the horse carefully adjusted himself and calmly strolled out of reach of the leash.