This horse...

[Joyce]

Wanted to come home with us!
He was talking and snorting and seemed to be begging us to let him loose!




He had an abrasion on his nose...wonder how that happened?


But he was still VERY friendly and gave me hugs and a bit of a headbut when I didn't feed him handfuls of grass fast enough.

[tammie]

The owie on his nose is most likely from his halter.  He probably was tied and pulled back, got a rope burn.  Or his halter was left on forever and as he grew it rubbed him raw, or it was just left on, got very dirty and itchy and he was rubbing. 
More then you wanted to know? 
Tammie

[Mikey]

I like the color of his mane.  I enjoy horses........from a distance.  At an early age I was thrown from a horse and another time I had lost the reins and was leaning over the horse to retrieve them when he suddenly raised his head and gave me a bloody nose.  I haven't been on one since......

[Jerry]

I was a bus boy at a summer camp. me and the other guys were driven to a stable each morning to bring the horses to the camp for the campers.  I had never ridden.  The others were old hands and clambered aboard bareback. Not wanting to look scared, I did too.
The guys galloped to the camp, me hanging on for dear life!  I was sure I'd fall off.  I didn't.  After a week of this I could ride!
Probably wet myself a few times!
When i got back to the city in September I had all the guys in the neighborhood riding.  We lived by Fairmount park and stables were close.

[Teresa]

Horses have a lot of personality . . . this one looks like quite the character . . . . glad you got to spend a bit of time with him.

[Esther]

Jamie might have liked for you to take him home too.

[bunny56lbc]

Yup, it look's like a halter burn to me too . I used to have a few horse's , but when my old Appalossa mare by the name of Bloomy " reg. name Poco's Wantia " died at the ripe age of 27 I decited not to get any more horse's for a while. She was the best horse I ever had . She was a great babysitter for my boy's when they were younger.
That was several year's ago.

Bonnie

[livetogarden]

Ditto on the halter. You know how people leave collars on dogs for too long and they sometimes grow in to their necks? Looks like someone may have done that to this horse. Glad it's off now though. Poor guy.
I had a horse also. I bought her when she was 6 and had her until she died at 25. They are cool animals.
Cath

[terri]

Love to look at them, love to pet them, but thats as far as ill go.. my BIL has 2 horses at his place on Long Island. They are sweet.

[CT]

I have a Belgian Draft Gelding, Jake. He lives with my brother and earns his keep plowing the garden in the spring and providing sleigh rides in the winter. He is a rough ride but he's a big old sweetie that follows my brother around searching his pockets for carrot pieces. I miss seeing him every day.

[LeeAnne151]

Yep, embedded halter. Poor baby. Looks healthy otherwise though.

[Brian]

I was bitten on the chest by a horse when I was about 10 years old.  Never really liked being around them after that.  However, I thought it was strange that I dreamt I got a horse last night.