OK. (break my arm)
This is Tennessee, the same horse that likes to back scratch. He was such a mouthy thing when I got him that I taught him to pick up stuff for a treat, just to see if he'd do it. Started off with the brush and worked up to a hat. It sure is handy when you're riding a 17 hand horse to have one that'll pick up your hat and hand it to you when it gets knocked off by a branch. The thing was, it had to be MY hat. He wouldn't pick up anybody else's hat, until just this past year. He even picked up my trail sponge out of a creek one time when I dropped the string. I didn't EVEN think he'd do it, but you never know if you don't ask, so I asked him and he did. I was glad I had trail buddies as witnesses coz nobody would've ever believed me if they hadn't seen it. He's getting mischievous in his old age though, coz the last time he did it, just as I got it in my hand, he jerked it at the last minute and tore a big chunk out of the brim. The big goofus. It was a straw hat and you could tell he thought it was funny.
Well ya'll, I hate to run, but it's my bedtime. Gotta be ready to get back in the blender tomorrow. Talk to ya'll later.
Frog
I would love to teach something fun like that to my pony.
I toyed a little with teaching her to bow, because she is so naturally flexible she does similar stretches on her own. Didn't stick with it though... yet.