Equines Representin’

by Meg on February 15, 2006

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Mini_horse2

 

{ 84 comments }

1 pistache268 02.15.06 at 2:34 pm

Small.

2 Brian 02.15.06 at 2:35 pm

I dunno, these look a little genetically altered and freakish to me.

3 Carbontetra 02.15.06 at 2:38 pm

Horses =/= cute.

4 dwine 02.15.06 at 2:48 pm

finally! a pony! I love Falabellas

5 finn 02.15.06 at 2:48 pm

horse + elderly gent who could use a friend = priceless.

6 Kanona 02.15.06 at 2:57 pm

Aww…they looklike really large My Little Ponies. Just sprinkle some glitter on their rumps.

7 Norty 02.15.06 at 3:08 pm

little feets leettle feets, I’m gonna find some leettle feets….

8 Jackie 02.15.06 at 3:19 pm

Aaah…old man, his horse and granddaughter..that’s cute! very very disney

9 flipa 02.15.06 at 3:49 pm

foals and former dictators!
click on my name to see what the dear old man does when he’s not hugging adorable little horses.

10 StormCat 02.15.06 at 3:56 pm

Norty, you’re right…Those little feetsy are just TOO cute!!!!! Oh gosh… My cute level is off the mark today!!! sheepers…

11 Laura 02.15.06 at 4:00 pm

Eee! Can you imagine their weensy HORSESHOES???

12 S 02.15.06 at 4:02 pm

Cute little albino horsies? They look quite head-heavy XD

13 Beauregard 02.15.06 at 4:09 pm

I wanna pony!

14 Steph 02.15.06 at 4:20 pm

Aaah! Who left those poor little ponies in the drier?! I have never seen horses so small, they are really cute. Are those full grown?

15 rainbow 02.15.06 at 4:43 pm

uh oh – now my cat’s want a pony of their own that they can ride on

16 Leena 02.15.06 at 4:59 pm

Lucky little horses – to be loved and pampered that way.
Lucky people – to have a farm & animals like that. I’m jealous, sitting here in dull suburbia!

17 Grace 02.15.06 at 5:07 pm

I’m with Brian on this one…those thingies don’t look like naturally-occurring critters at all.

18 Jackie 02.15.06 at 5:07 pm

Horses are NOT cute, they’re scary no matter what size they are!

19 finn 02.15.06 at 5:25 pm

there was a snake a couple days ago. maybe u shd go check that out. :/

20 mejezabel 02.15.06 at 5:28 pm

Flipa….now you’ve gone and ruined this mans life. He has to go back into witness protection and work as ticket taker at the cineplex in Boise! I wonder if they’ll let him bring his teeny pal?

21 roxanne 02.15.06 at 5:30 pm

although i don’t believe these pics do them justice, check out the website. these mini-horses look like scaled down arabians & thoroughbreds as adults! i was very impressed, many mini-horses look like pituitary dwarfs to me, but these people know their horses! (and horses make fine companion animals!)

22 John Salmon 02.15.06 at 5:32 pm

The one the woman’s holding looks like it’s right out of a fairy tale, and I don’t mean Nathan Lane’s bio.

23 kochou 02.15.06 at 5:33 pm

Horses are beautiful and magnificent creatures.

24 xpityparteex 02.15.06 at 5:38 pm

UGH! MINIS!!!! You finally did horses and it was a mini? I’m ashamed. Expect cuter pictures in your inbox right away.

25 Peeved Michelle 02.15.06 at 5:43 pm

NOT cute.

26 Denita TwoDragons 02.15.06 at 5:56 pm

Sorry…I prefer my horses to be a useful size, thanks. Give me an Arabian or a Thoroughbred or a Quarter Horse any day–or a Clyde if I had the extra space and food!

–TwoDragons

27 Theo 02.15.06 at 6:39 pm

Oooh… Clydesdales. Those are definitely Horses. And Belgians. And Percherons. Imagine them wearing *armor* and carrying knights. A little apart from cute, though, maybe.

28 Stephanie 02.15.06 at 6:44 pm

These horses are of useful size! In many places they’re training tiny horses to be guide animals for the visually impaired. Apparently they’re even better at it than dogs. And they have tiny booties to go over their hoofs to give them traction on smooth floors, as in shopping malls. All together now: Awww…!

29 hashi 02.15.06 at 6:46 pm

I’m surprised only one person made a “My Little Pony” reference.

Also, those horses are actually full-sized; the people in the photos are actually 25 feet tall [7.62 metres]

O_o

30 hashi 02.15.06 at 6:49 pm

But Theo, Paladins get extra-planar mounts now!

*wonders if Theo gets the reference…*

31 joydivision 02.15.06 at 7:07 pm

Is there something wrong with the horse?
Is there such thing as
dwarism in horses?

It’s adorable, btw.

32 Theo 02.15.06 at 7:15 pm

Hashi — I’m actually not a WoW fan at all, but StarCraft is one of my all-time favs.

33 Emily 02.15.06 at 7:26 pm

General comment: I’m surprised at people that commment on pictures just to say “urghh! Not cute!” or make other negative comments.
Seriously, what’s wrong with you?

34 paige 02.15.06 at 7:30 pm

i thought maybe that was milton berle hugging the horse.

either way, they’re so sweet! big horses are beautiful, majestic creatures; LITTLE horses are cute. i wonder if they get teased or picked on.

35 Molicious 02.15.06 at 7:31 pm

OMG! It’s your own “My Little Pony”! Now, if they were only purple they would be perfect.

36 Leslie 02.15.06 at 7:34 pm

This reminded me of the Pygmy goats I see when I drive past a farm on my way to see my parents out in the country. I googled them and the national pygmy goat association has some cute pics of baby pygmy goats with a baby girl or in a pumpkin.

37 snusnu 02.15.06 at 8:19 pm

Little hooves!! I want to carry one around.

38 Linda 02.15.06 at 8:21 pm

Minature horses are not ponies or mutant horses. They’re so little even adults are cute. Regular horses – has to be babies to be cute!

39 violalee 02.15.06 at 8:25 pm

The old man + horse is one of the sweetest, most endearing things I’ve seen in a long, long time.

40 Julia 02.15.06 at 8:34 pm

You should see these adorable mini guide horses for the blind:

http://www.guidehorse.org/

I learned of them after seeing a group of them being trained in my city. Each of them had on teeny little white, sneaker looking shoes.

41 notnamed 02.15.06 at 8:42 pm

That first picture looks more like a large goat of some sort than a horse… the second picture though… ^_^ ears!

42 Alyson 02.15.06 at 8:57 pm

The little one in the blonde girl’s arms is tremendously cute. Why can’t we have those in suburbia?

43 Ryan Ragsdale 02.15.06 at 9:19 pm

I used to shoe horses with my father, and they’re cute but miniature horses can be little bastards.

They’re adorable, though.

44 Ashley 02.15.06 at 9:36 pm

These are adorable! And I agree… miniture horses aren’t all they are cracked up to be sometimes…

45 Vanadis 02.15.06 at 9:51 pm

Ok not so blown away by gramps and his albino friend but OMG those little guide horses Julia linked to are precious! Little shoes and little horses and ponies in bed! I want one!!!

46 E. Collison 02.15.06 at 9:59 pm

These are foals, which is why they look a little “off.” As they mature, they’ll assume normal proportions.

So – no weird mutants here, just little ‘uns.

47 Renee 02.16.06 at 12:16 am

:D Minis or Falabellas? I work with minis a lot. Eeee adorable =)

48 punkpenguin 02.16.06 at 1:57 am

i love the pictures of ANIMALS on this site but when humans are included, they are not so cute. granpa is freaky. i don’t want to see old men here, just CUTE things.

49 lisa 02.16.06 at 3:45 am

“i don’t want to see old men here, just CUTE things.”

Punkpenguin: Start your own weblog if you don’t like it here. C.O. hasn’t advertised for an editorial board.

The old guy + horse shot is indeed adorable. Look at their expressions! Contentment, encapsulated.

50 rainey 02.16.06 at 4:55 am

The dream of most little girls: A PONY!

51 Jes 02.16.06 at 5:19 am

Punkpenguin said: “i don’t want to see old men here, just CUTE things”

EW. How sadly shallow of you think that way. You have clearly not learned the art of becoming a better person yet.

Get your own website, or go to someone else’s site, if your brain can’t handle anything other than vapid and shallow.

Besides, that farm will probably notice the link & all the mass traffic to their website. Causing them to come here and see your negative, lame, hurtful, and unecessary remark. Luckily the majority have something positive to contribute.

I love the photo of the man and the pony the best. Look at his great expression.

52 Denita TwoDragons 02.16.06 at 5:27 am

I give! I give!! The guide horses had me melting all over myself like a popsicle in the sun!!

As for the Paladin remark…um, I sorta have a nice collection of dice I use frequently, and not all of them have six sides. I not only got the joke, I fell out of my chair laughing! Now I have this goofy mental image of a Paladin’s summoning his extraplanar mount–and because the gods made a mistake, he’s stuck with a Falabella filly…LMAO…

OK I’ll put away my geekness now. Ahem. ;-)

–TwoDragons

53 The_Dude_Abides 02.16.06 at 5:32 am

Gramps + Baby = Love personified!!! They both look like they are in total bliss. No words, just smiles. :)

54 Evengeline 02.16.06 at 7:00 am

Horses don’t usually make me mush.. but with the man hugging it! Aww! Too cute.

55 Julia 02.16.06 at 9:56 am

I just read what it says above the photos. The woman whose horse farm the photos are from, is who emailed these pictures to this site. That means she will see what we think of the man holding the horse.

The photo is outstanding, Joanne. You captured a wonderful moment. Looks like pure love! Any male who would show that kind of heart is A-plus in my book!

56 Jaye 02.16.06 at 12:14 pm

At last, horsies on C.O.! Because my husband (hi, Theo!) isn’t ready for a dog yet, I’ve been kidding him that I am going to put a mini horse in the backyard instead, and get it little sneakers so it can come inside without marring the wood floors.

57 finn 02.16.06 at 1:35 pm

jaye, he may not be ready for a dog, but how about a puppy? no softie can resist, and by the time it becomes a dog, he’ll be utterly besotted.

p.s. theo, u didn’t hear this.

58 Theo 02.16.06 at 3:14 pm

[hurriedly pretends not to be picking nose absent-mindedly]
…wha huh?

59 Kayll 02.16.06 at 3:37 pm

I grew up with horses and later with minis. I wish they had more pictures of minis in the winter. Their coats get fluffier than full sized horses. Very very cute.

60 Jess 02.16.06 at 4:08 pm

Aww… I love horses :x

61 Genevieve 02.16.06 at 7:58 pm

Are you trying to kill me with cuteness!??!?!?!

62 E. Collison 02.16.06 at 9:17 pm

Wow – horse sneakers are right up there with penguin sweaters!

63 Rikard 02.16.06 at 11:42 pm

That is one cute Woman!
And the horsie ain’t all that bad either…

64 d 02.17.06 at 1:28 am

I wish I had a pony…. for everyone!!!!

65 Kathleen 02.17.06 at 1:41 am

that top picture is so cute! ahhh, this is cute OVERLOAD!

66 Datha 02.17.06 at 2:24 am

The section ‘horses’ is not capitalized. :P No, im not a nitpicker, it just stood out. I have seen a smaller horse, BTW. A “My Little Pony” horse lol

67 Datha 02.17.06 at 2:29 am

HEY! I DID mention “My Little Pony”! hashi hasnt read mine yet lol :P i wonder if they just supersized one of those lil buggers, took a picture of it and gave it to the CO master lol jk

68 Capoeirista 02.17.06 at 11:39 am

I think it should be a rule of cute that if Grandpa is shown loving something, it’s automatically, lovingly, heartrendingly cute from all the added depth, wisdom and poignancy he brings to it.

Same with Grandma.

The horse is cute, but not as cute as many of the photos you get. It’s Grandpa’s lovin’ that makes the picture for me and makes the horsie really cute.

Anybody who has such a man in her / his life is really really lucky!

69 hashi 02.17.06 at 5:54 pm

Denita, you’ve made my morning :)

70 Datha 02.20.06 at 3:03 am

Capoeirista, a added old geezer makes it CUTE?! ugh i dont think so. That’s awfully presumptuous

71 Ashley 02.23.06 at 12:20 am

oh my god! its like MY LITTLE PONYS in real life just color it and give it a cute little name. Totally precious wish i had one.

72 Adrianne 02.24.06 at 4:28 pm

So adorable. I LOVE the first picture of the man with the horse!

73 Joe Dullt 03.01.06 at 10:17 pm

ugly horse

74 Jesse gallagher 03.04.06 at 10:12 am

horses are not cute, remove the horse page fool

75 Theo 03.04.06 at 1:43 pm

Oh I don’t know; if it were up to me, I’d remove the horse-page fools.

76 Dark_angle 03.04.06 at 11:25 pm

the horses head is huge!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

77 Lilli 03.09.06 at 4:43 pm

aww so sweet how did u get tht picci so perfect xxx

78 chicklepiza 03.10.06 at 7:00 pm

awwwwawwwawwwawww so cute

79 Ashley 05.30.06 at 12:28 pm

The one where they r in the kitchen looks like they r making out or something. but the rest were pretty awsome seeming i LOVE horses.

80 Christy 07.30.06 at 10:11 am

I’m a late visitor to this particular post, and I’m confused. I don’t see an old man, only two pictures of the girl and the horse.

81 rebecca 10.21.06 at 4:19 am

hey that is a cute pic my sister showed me this site case i like horses and animals

82 Paige 12.01.06 at 4:20 am

I think that your horse is good. I like horses. My horse is good. I like my horse.

83 Kyoki 06.20.07 at 12:29 am

Me, too, Christy- I just see two pictures of a girl and a pony.

84 Theo 06.20.07 at 12:49 am

Huh. It wasn’t always this way; there really were two different pictures back when it was originally posted. I wonder what happened.

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