My very heart leaped with delight at the sound!
January 8, 2017 7:25 PM   Subscribe

Horse with a rubber chicken [much squeaking]. Horse with a big silver bouncy ball [ambient noise]. Horse with a rubber chicken, again [not so much squeaking]. Horse with a pokey reindeer and a rubber duckie [talking and teensy squeaking].

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Rubber chicken previously.
posted by Johnny Wallflower (17 comments total) 23 users marked this as a favorite
 
You were so not kidding about the "much squeaking" part. My cat is fascinated by the noise!
posted by ninazer0 at 8:06 PM on January 8, 2017


THE MAJESTIC EQUINE
posted by cortex at 10:43 PM on January 8, 2017 [12 favorites]


If only a herd of horses with rubber squeaky chickens
would show up for trump's inauguration speech.
posted by quazichimp at 11:33 PM on January 8, 2017 [3 favorites]


You can see why noblemen chose to ride them during jousting.
posted by wenestvedt at 11:34 PM on January 8, 2017 [1 favorite]


Is there no danger that the horse will swallow part or all of that chicken and die? Because it looks like a lot of fun, but I wouldn't want to go down in stable annals as the despicable idiot who choked Star the Wonder Horse with a fricken rubber chicken.
posted by pracowity at 12:03 AM on January 9, 2017 [2 favorites]


Probably not. Horses love toys but they don't really eat them like dogs and cats. They mostly like things they can squash, things that make noise or they can use as a weapon. They love those big balls, most of which have a rattle in them.
posted by fshgrl at 12:15 AM on January 9, 2017 [5 favorites]


This is great, I never thought about giving horses toys, but now I think "Why not give toys to horses?" Mind stretched.
posted by Rufous-headed Towhee heehee at 12:36 AM on January 9, 2017 [2 favorites]


Toys for Trots.
posted by mandolin conspiracy at 3:11 AM on January 9, 2017 [19 favorites]


The first link reminds me of trying to play fiddle tunes as an aspiring violinist in middle school.
posted by ropeladder at 4:33 AM on January 9, 2017 [2 favorites]


Horseplay!
posted by Jode at 5:27 AM on January 9, 2017


Owning a horse for 7 years taught me that all the "press" about the majestic equine is just marketing. They are basically 1000 pound third graders.
posted by COD at 6:20 AM on January 9, 2017 [17 favorites]




Thanks to this post, I found myself scrolling through the Miss Cellania blog, only to find that they've reblogged one of my Metafilter posts, so now I feel internet famous. Thanks!
posted by radwolf76 at 7:37 AM on January 9, 2017 [1 favorite]




We had a plethora of ponies when I was a kid (not all at the same time, my mum was into showing so we had one for two years, then another when I aged out of the class...etc). One of them, Minstrel, loved to mouth things to the extent that we had to provide him with footballs and the like to prevent him from causing havoc. Some things that he managed:

Removed the light bulb from the socket in his stable. We found it on the stable floor, unbroken.

Could unzip practically any jacket you cared to wear in his vicinity.

Would open own stable door and just to prove that wasnt a fluke, proceed to open the doors of his stablemates (we had to clip his door bolt shut).

Once proceeded to empty the contents of a showing judges handbag. She was so amused by him successfully removing a packet of tissues that she let him continue to see what else he might get hold of.
posted by Ness at 8:15 AM on January 9, 2017 [13 favorites]


Miss Cellania…reblogged one of my Metafilter posts

MeFi's Own Miss Cellania and MetaFilter have a long history of cross-pollination.
posted by Johnny Wallflower at 8:38 AM on January 9, 2017 [2 favorites]


Horses love toys but they don't really eat them like dogs and cats.

Horses eat dogs and cats? Yet another thing to worry about.
posted by pracowity at 11:55 AM on January 9, 2017 [1 favorite]


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