Eating Like a Horse

Knight has pretty good ground manners, but his dinner table manners are quite appalling. I had just hosed him off after a riding lesson when he returned to his stall and made a complete mess of his face.

You’d never know he loves his food so much by his peekaboo ribs that greet us from time to time.

He lost some weight at the horse show a couple of weeks ago. My husband was skeptical that a horse could lose noticeable weight in the span of being away from his home for a few days, but I swear he looked more like a beanpole upon returning from the weekend.

His rice bran and beet pulp concoction is fed to him in the now-gunky black bucket. You’ll notice he is also eating from the green hay feeder. He manages to slurp the yumminess and it falls into the adjacent larger green bucket.

And then he’ll drop some on the bar of his pipe corral. But he goes back to clean it up later.

When I left the barn after my lesson, I thought of those pictures of little kids in high-chairs wearing their meals on their faces. And that is how he will look when I see him next. Slightly crusty. In the forelock and above his nose.

At least he is happy!

Comments: Have you ever had a pet (or person) who ate with gusto to the point of ridiculousness? Do tell. 

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