Why do people ***really*** keep those animals?



There’s always a “Florida Man” story involving these things.

i figured it was midgets

It was a fad, like ostriches, and pot-bellied pigs.
What was supposed to be the latest, greatest money-maker fizzled. Only made money for those in on the ground floor.
Everybody else took a hit !

Miniature equine steaks?

Its women that drive this stuff. They see these little horses and think they look cute and fun so they get a couple. Out here I'd bet probably 90% of the people who have horses don't ride them or do anything with them besides feed them, but at least a regular you could potentially ride. These little things are completely useless, and make no sense to me. Plus I've heard they are real arseholes.

Miss Happy got raped

gawd

Anyone ever ride a miniature horse

That shixt's just wrong.

Same goes for emu's...wtf?

Had one when the kids were little for riding around the pasture. Hated that little [bleep]. Pawned him off on someone else who wanted him. He was close to being a bullet test medium.

That was funny. I don't care who you are.

It's difficult for me to believe I can find humor in anything on this dark, dark day.

They use them for guide animals. Live a lot longer than dogs

Local guy fell off a 5 gallon bucket and broke his arm while servicing a horse.

THATS why mini horses were popular. Safety.



No buckets needed.

Or miniature cattle. They advertise them as a way to raise back yard beef but they're way too expensive to eat. For years cattlemen have been trying to breed dwarfism out of cattle and now these idiots have brought it back in.

I think there are some animal servicers on this site. They were talking about f u c king hogs on another thread. The Muslims are experts but tend to eat their sexual partners when times get tough, and I ain't talking about cunnilingus neither.

People are banging those too? Eww

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Here you go Jim.

Yup. No need for stump training.

Cool to have a small chariot to go behind one.

Make a beer run on it.

Train it like a hiking pigeon in case you get too drunk.

“Sassafras, take me drunk, I’m home.” 😂🤪

I've considered it. Seen some of them in harness. Wouldn't get going fast enough to kill you, you get in a bad wreck or they get ornery a hammer to the head would take care of Sassafrass.

Well if you got too drunk, at least you’d have a ride home

And something to screw.




What the hell is a hiking pigeon?

I always heard the term "He's stump trained" about horses and mules.

A bird for passing messages for whilst your out and about, as opposed to the ones that only take messages to your home or rookery or coop or whatever.

I learn something once every 18 months on here

Well I’ll be




Mike Tyson had a pigeon on his cartoon series. It was pretty smart too.

They're neat till you forget you had one in your pocket. Unloading for the washing machine gets a little grosser then.

Sassafras and Root Beer would make a neat team.

I'm inspired now.

Could skid out lodgepole for fence rails, wouldn't even need a trailer. Bet you could fit them in a pickup bed.

He's stump broke???????? WTF, you guys got queer sheep herders in those parts?

Five or six. It's pretty common to see two saddle horses in the back of a pickup out here. One guy used to load his saddle mare right in the back of the 1/2 ton with no side racks. She must have ridden that way for 100s of accumulated miles.

Florida.

Where the men are men, and the sheep are nervous.

Oregon:

Where men don't exist.

I know a man who has some miniature horses, and he was at a local auction bidding on some round bales of hay to feed them with. I told him he was the first person I knew of to feed a bale of hay that was bigger than the animal eating it. Made him mad, I guess because he hasn't spoken to me since.

On the other hand maybe his brother told him that I said he must have more money than sense, because my thought was that miniature horses were about as stupid an idea as there was.

Hahah.

Chit fire.

Fat fingered that one.

Supposed to be homing pigeon.

But i guess, a hiking pigeon would backpack your message to you.

That's an old saying about College Station A&M, especially when it was not a coed university.

My grandmother came from Poland.
She and her mother were chased out by Cossak mercs. when she was a little girl.
She never got to have a pony.
Sometimes life sucks.

Oh c'mon. Climb down off your stump - you can do better than that.

call them pigmy ponies that pisses the owners off in my neck of the woods

For when you want to take a short ride.

And there we have it. The definitive answer.