A Hair Raising Experience

Ok so last night Erika came over to play with her horse, Peyton. Erika loves to dress her horse up and do crazy things with her around the yard; however, because it was looking like it was going to rain, she decided to brush Peyton and pull her mane. That is right..you heard me. Pulling a horse mane is exactly what it means. You stand beside this 1000 lbs animal, you grab a bunch a hair and you pull it. Now, Peyton is getting really good at not moving around when Erika performs this grooming technique however she was not always that good...and I don't blame her. Would you like to have your hairdresser grab a bunch of your hair and pull it out. No thanks, I would rather have them use scissors! The first couple of times Erika tried this on her horse, I lauged my pants off. The horse would dance all over the place and push herself into Erika and whoever else was helping. So to stop the dancing, Erika decided to place bails of hay around Peyton to stop her from doing the two step. Did that help...no. Instead, Peyton would try to eat the bail of hay and stand on it. in the end, I think that Peyton has surcome to the fact that she belongs to someone who really loves her and that she will always be a "girlie girls" horse as she truely loves the attention!