The adventures of Kuzco

[Ashley]

Ah the joys of haveing my boy home. I am starting to understand my boy better. I actually think he has pretty close to the same personality as me.

He is nice and hyper/high strung. I like him that way. He goes in a stall at night, then out during the day.

Well he hates his water buckit. He must spilling it at the very lest every other night, most of the time nightly. The he draggs it all over the stall filling it with shaveings and poop. Then when he goes out in the morning he eats snow like a mad dog cause he is thirsty, after that he goes inside to drink water.

Then I go to muck his stall. First clean it, then spread the shaveings out that he so kindly puts in to one huge pile in the corner every night. While I am doing this I come across his salt and mineral blocks he has hide in there.

Hum........and apparently my barn door has become food.

Well Last night he must of been feeling really distructive and wanting out. The neighbors came over to inform me I had a horse lose. HE managed to totally brake the stall door latch off. After some running around and exploring, I caught him, in my rock bed. He happily went back to his stall where breakfast was waiting, and the water bucket was not spilled. AFter breakfast he went outside and decided he was tired and slept all day!

He is back in his stall with dinner..........I wonder what I will have awaiting me tommorow! OH!

 

[alongman]

I actually think he has pretty close to the same personality as me.

He is nice and hyper/high strung.

I was wondering all the similarities between the two of you..... so far I've gotten these: chews on doors, takes off running, fills pails with poop, eats snow, and sleeps all day.... was that it?

LOL

Congrats - when you are handsome like he is, you can be a little PITA every once in a while.

 

[Lewella]

Those Royal ponies are characters to say the least! LOL Ask Jim Curry some time about what Royal Splish Splash likes to do to his stall walls! OH! Splish Splash's dam and Kuzco's dam are maternal sisters so interesting stall habits must run in the family.....

 

[Ashley]

I dont eat snow.........I learned not to when I was a child. In fact the child in the house just learned that recently to. He was eatting snow in the pasture when he said it tasted funny. I asked him if he relized how much crap was around that. OH! The horses havent been out there, and there havent been any since Feb. HOwever there are crazy amounts of deer and rabbits here. Along with one pain in the but Male Cat!

I prefer not to eat and poop in the same stop, but Kuzco dont seem to mind. I think he just likes watching me wash his feed dish and water bucket all the time.

I surely dont sleep all day........not everybody is like you Adam. I only wish I could sleep when I am supposed to.

However, I do get into trouble alot, and go stir crazy when locked up.

 

[alongman]

OUCH! Sleep all day maybe, but it's the work all night part you forgot!

And I have seen you eat sand, so I figured snow wasn't a big step...

 

[hhpminis]

Just a hint on the water bucket. We have had several that mistake their water bucket for a stall ball and find it extremely amusing to spill it nightly and flood their stall.

I like having the bucket on the ground as opposed to hanging so we have PVC pipe that we have cut to about 3-4 feet in length. We use hose clamps to attach it to the wall with a small spacer such as a small piece of wood and run the PVC pipe into the bucket. VOILA! They can not tip it, it is safe and they have water all night. When you need to clean the bucket, you merely slide the pipe up out of the bucket and it is easy to dump, clean, whatever you need to do.

However, if anyone has a suggestion to keep them from pooping in their water, I would be interested in hearing that. LOL

 

[muffntuf]

If he is anything like my Shiner - he uses everything he can to play with. I found him this weekend playing frisbee with his stall feeder - which is huge. But, he hadn't had his time outside with his jolly balls that day, it was Cowboys time to be outside.

One caution with jolly balls - they get to throwing them around and voila - light bulb broke! Shiner has only done that once, but he is capable of getting totally into his play.

He used to dump his water bucket too, but I got a regular water bucket holder and put his electrical cord through the bottom, he can't pull the bucket out anymore.

Also, hide electrical cords, they think that is play too.

I finally trained Shiner to retrieve his jolly ball, so I don't go running after it anymore. Now he brings it to me if he wants me to throw it for him.