HAPPY THANKSGIVING!

From all of us at Silly Pony Trick's: (Dancer, Emmerson, Elle, Human (and friend Cinder too)

May your Plate be full and your calories Nil.

May your carrots be plentiful and your good fortune abundant.

May you all have a Silly Pony Trick of your own to share with friends and family and

HAVE A HAPPY THANKSGIVING!

Silly Pony Trick #6, Kiss the dog

The past few days have been much too serious with Mom's injury and Human being worried and no one has been paying enough attention to ME! Now don't get me wrong, I care that my mom is hurt but really, what can I do to fix it? Nothing.

What I can do is entertain Mom and Human alike so tonight I decided it was time to turn on the charm and see if Silly Pony Trick #6 could lighten the mood. Plus it of course puts the attention back where it belongs, which is on ME!

Silly Pony Trick #6 is a fun thing to do that will almost always put a smile on your human's face. What you need is one friendly dog or, if you really want to add some 'wow' factor to the trick, two or three friendly dogs works wonders.

When the friendly dogs come to you paddock to visit, be sure your human is watching and reach down and lick the dogs head. Humans seem to find this highly amusing and say "LOOK, Elle's giving the dog a big sloppy kiss!" The dogs are happy to play this trick with you and will usually kiss you back.

Tonight Human brought my good pal Cajun up to visit us and I decided to put SPT #6 into action and low and behold, I kissed him, he kissed me and Human started to actually laugh!

So the next time you're human seems sad and you want to make them smile try Silly Pony Trick #6 and see if it works for you!

Silly Pony Trick #4... Toss the Chicken

OK fans! Here is your newest Silly Pony Trick to try at home! When the neighbor's rooster won't stop trying to sit on your rump, you grab him by the tail feathers and toss him across the pen!

It is the COOLEST trick because the chicken squawks and the human yelps and you get to throw your tail over your back and snort and blow and toss your head while you trot in high spirits.

Your human will love this new trick, but I'm not sure the chicken enjoys it as he won't come inside my pen now. Oh well, Horses rule, Chickens drool! (heheheh)

If Horses Could Vote....

OK, first, GEE Elle, are you a silly pony drama queen or what? A wee bit of rain falls from the sky and you are screaming for a life boat... Take a chill pill baby sis.

NOW onto more IMPORTANT stuff like politics... WHAT? Well of COURSE I follow politics, I mean I am a Gelding and we males of all species tend to enjoy politics ya know?

Human came down to the barn today to make me practice balancing her on my back. It was actually not a bad day, she stayed up there and did not make me work too hard, although I have to say, it was kind of distracting with the kids that came to watch sitting in the bleachers... I'm not so sure kids need to be watching me, but we got through it.

Human was talking to Trainer and said she was dragging her feet at making the trip home because there wasn't going to be much to watch on TV besides the election results.

MAN how can she NOT want to watch those things? I tried to vote but no one would send me a ballot, sigh... Human said she voted and that it looked like her candidate for President was going to win. I wanted to vote. I vote for 24/7 access to good grazing and hay. I also vote for a full bucket of carrots and apples daily.

Did the humans vote for smart stuff like that? I hope so, I'll be waiting to see what fills my feed buckets in the days to come.

Wednesday's Silly Pony Trick

It's my favorite day of the week again... Wednesday, the day I don't have to do anything that I don't want to do (like work at balancing the human on my back).

Because it's my day off and Human was off with Ms Prim and Proper (aka Dancer) doing some fancy schmancy photo shoot for a magazine cover (as IF I'm a SLOUCH in the looks department??? Humph!) I decided it was time for a Silly Pony Trick.

My trick of the day was so simple and yet created such a stir at the barn it is an absolute blast of a trick to play on your own humans.

While turned out in your paddock, play with the latch at the gate until you get it loose, then go for a nice little walk-a-bout!

For some odd reason humans find it highly unsettling when they can't find you where they last left you, so if you take yourself for a bit of a walk-a-bout and go visit the other dudes at your place, you'll get to here a lot of "OMG!, WHERE IS HE??????? EMMMMMMMMERRRRRSSSSOOOOOONNNNN???????" and then there is the "Here boy, come on" (like I'm going to answer to this??? I am NOT a dog!humph!)

It's best once they find you, to give them a bit of exercise by not letting them catch you immediately. Trot around with your nose up in the air and keep JUST out of reach for about 5 mins. Then give your human a break and come up to them and ask for a pet. Remember humans are fragile creatures so we need to be careful how much exercise we give them.

Yup, this is a favorite silly pony trick of mine handed down over the generations. Have fun dudes!

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!

Silly Pony Trick of the Day....

Elle's Silly Pony Trick of the day:

When your human is filling your water tank on a morning where there is frost on the ground (like this morning for a perfect example!) it is a GREAT time to 'prank' your human.

First wait until the human has the hose situated in the tank. Then as your human is standing around waiting for the tank to fill up, walk over to say 'hello' to your human and ask for attention. Once you have them lulled into a false sense of relaxation from petting you, quietly walk over to the tank as if to take a drink. They'll stand and watch you. GRAB the hose in your mouth and fling it around, never dropping it!

This will surely spray your human with the nice cold water and they'll appreciate your silliness AND the fact that they'll not have to shower once they go inside their human stall.

Silly Pony Tricks In Action

Welcome to Silly Pony Tricks. Home to the musings of 3 purebred Arabian Horses, *CC Autumn Dancer, *Emmerson Echo, and Fabulous By Design. These three make up BlackFyre Farms along with 5 purebred Belgian Tervuren Canine buddies.

With no further ado, I'll let each horse introduce themselves.

I am *CC Autumn Dancer, a 7 yr old Polish line Purebred Arabian Mare. My passion is to run miles through the field with my 2 yr old daughter Elle and flirting endlessly with our resident hunky gelding, Emmerson.

Currently I'm on layup after 'injuring' myself back in June. **Shhhhhhhh my human doesn't realize that I've actually been FAKING the whole thing so I could take the summer off and laze about the pasture!!!** Recently I've been 'feeling' better (in other words, becoming bored doing nothing worthwhile) and the human has decided I will start back in training in a few weeks. Because we're heading into winter and nasty weather, I welcome the work, it gets me inside the arena out of the rain!

Hey, Dancer, quit hogging the bandwidth! Hi!!!!!!!!!! I am *Emmerson Echo, I am a 4 yr old Polish line Purebred Arabian Gelding who holds court over one lovely mare and 3 FINE Fillies! Dancer who you just met, and my paternal sister Elle, plus two Quarter Horses who hang out around here from time to time.

It ROCKS being sole man of the barn with a harem! Even my human is female. Although when I get bored for male companionship, I just toss a nicker and my mane and my human's male counterpoint comes out to scratch my neck and feed me treats, he's an alright dude!

Currently I'm on 'location' at a training barn learning how to become what my human says is a Western Pleasure horse... not sure what the heck that is, but in the past two months I've been learning the 'ropes' of how to keep a human on your back (well most of the time, on occassion, I do forget how hard it is to keep them balanced up there when you spook or bolt, sigh, and OFF she goes, tsk, tsk) and we spend a lot of time inside the arena, although if I give her enough of a big eyed look, she'll take me out to the woods with buddies for something she calls trail riding.

I guess I'm going to be a show horse this coming Spring... Not sure what that is, but if it involves food and attention and fillies I'm all for it!

Oh Emmerson, MOVE IT... Baby Sis coming through!!!!! I am FABULOUS... well OK, I am BF Fabulous By Design aka Elle. Named after Elle MacPhearson the super model. I am a 2 yr old Polish line purebred Arabian Filly and if I say so myself (which I of course DO) I am HOT... I mean, ALL the studs and geldings far and wide want my number... I LOVE to flirt with them but in the end my heart belongs to my human and her male counterpart. They always give me what I want, accolades on being so beautiful and they play fun games with me and feed me great treats (but not so much I loose my super fit figure!).

I love hanging with my mom and I hate to admit it, but kind of miss my older bro right now while he's visiting that other barn. I am not as fond of our Quarter Horse visitors as he is, but I guess even ugly girls deserve some attention, but I don't really know why.

My favorite things are myself, (of course!) my mom, my bro, my human and then chasing Cajun one of the human's show dogs.. He and I have a lot of fun bouncing about the field together, especially when I grab the tip of his tail! He LOVES that, (well ok, he loves to give me evil glares for that!). Life is great for me, my human says my only job right now is to be a baby and play and have fun and grow up beautiful ... Well I am already a super model, so that part is EASY... silly human.

Watch for this crews tales of Silly Pony Tricks on a weekly basis. Tell us what you think and share your own Silly Pony Tricks... Most of all, Spend time at the barn, Ride and be happy!