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Horse Bonds With Seeing Eye Caamel
WGME ^ | WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 7TH 2016

Posted on 12/10/2016 10:55:27 PM PST by nickcarraway

It's an unlikely friendship at a zoo right here in Maine, a horse and a camel.

Caesar lives at the Pony X-Press Zoo in Winslow.

The 5-year-old camel is a main attraction for the traveling zoo, but he also serves another purpose.

Ed Papsis says they've had Dolly on and off for 10 years.

"She's probably the only horse that has a Seeing Eye camel, she unfortunately has gone blind," Papsis said.

Caesar needed company, and Dolly needed a guide.

"We put the horse in there and she just kind of bonded with him and he bonded with her," Papsis said.

Caesar only has eyes for her.

They are a rather unlikely duo, in an unlikely place.


TOPICS: Pets/Animals
KEYWORDS: camel; horse
Camel Guide And Horse Form Unlikely Friendship When Mare Loses Her Sight
1 posted on 12/10/2016 10:55:27 PM PST by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

That’s certainly better than bonding with a seeing-eye Carmel...
Those things are a bitch to get out of manes...


2 posted on 12/10/2016 11:24:44 PM PST by Stormy_2021 (It's like a koala bear crapped a rainbow in my brain...)
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To: nickcarraway

the camel is only ‘bonding’ with hte horse because it can steal the gorse’s food when it isn’t looking- animals always have ulterior motives-


3 posted on 12/11/2016 12:11:49 AM PST by Bob434
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To: Bob434

IIRC, there was a story about a donkey and a horse, the horse was blind I think, but the story was the same thing.....


4 posted on 12/11/2016 3:41:44 AM PST by Gaffer
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To: Stormy_2021

My momma done told me, to keep the carmel on the bed-post at night.


5 posted on 12/11/2016 3:50:00 AM PST by Daffynition ( "The New PTSD: Post-Trump Stress Disorder")
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To: Bob434; Gaffer
The offspring are pretty strange


6 posted on 12/11/2016 4:05:03 AM PST by Daffynition ( "The New PTSD: Post-Trump Stress Disorder")
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To: nickcarraway
He's fallen...and I can't get up


7 posted on 12/11/2016 4:10:29 AM PST by Daffynition ( "The New PTSD: Post-Trump Stress Disorder")
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:0)


8 posted on 12/11/2016 4:40:41 AM PST by Gaffer
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To: Daffynition

For Heaven’s sake will someone please help that dog?


9 posted on 12/11/2016 6:55:20 AM PST by mcshot (The "Greatest Generation" would never have allowed the trashing of our Republic.)
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