Silly Pony Trick #3....

This trick is best done when your human is the only human to be seen and on a day you think you don't want to work to hard.

Silly Pony Trick #3:

Lie down in your stall and groan several times when you don't normally grown. Do this JUST as you hear your human approaching the barn (either you hear their car pull up or you hear them walking up).

Your human will rush in and start to worry that perhaps you've got the dreaded 'colic' (tummy ache human, just say tummy ache). They will then drag you up and make you walk circles for a few minutes, but that's ok because you get out of your stall. They will then listen to your heart, your breathing rate, take your temperature and listen for gut sounds.

Since you're not truly colicing, they'll then stand and look very confused that everthing is 'normal' and that you're standing there with out a care in the world.

They will then make a few phone calls to Trainer and decide that instead of practicing balancing the human on your back, all you'll have to do is be turned loose in the arena for an hour of human watching you.

Then after a nice roll in the dirt and a good leg stretch, Human will call Trainer again and they'll decide you can probably have a light lunge and then back to 'bed' for you. Voila, you get to get your human's heart rate going (Which I have read is a very good thing to do to humans) and you get a ton of attention and very little work.

This is a VERY fun Silly Pony Trick and I suggest you try it out soon!