You laughed at my service Donkey...

[mechurchlady]

The horse CMs at DLR are bomb proof and rarely react to anything but it takes a lot of training by professions horsemen who work up to a year with a horse CM before the animal can go onstage. Yes there are CMs that are donkeys and they work at Big Thunder Ranch. There was a podcast or what ever about CMs who run around on four legs. :D: They live at Circle D Ranch. ;)

[GRUMPY PIRATE]

That woman is apparently a bit of a pot stirrer/attention whore (although I'm sure y'all guessed them from her tons of rambling comments posted after the article). For a while she was living with the horse inside (yes, INSIDE) a one-bedroom apartment. The management company was understandably a bit unhappy.

http://www.10news.com/news/11420889/detail.html

HEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHE

so many options...so many comments......

ummmm

RUM?

(can you imagine being the one that got to "inspect" the apartment?)

[Syndrome]

I have a nice seeing eye rat.
He sits on my hat, and that is that. yep, the rat on the hat. :D:

Hmmmm, that makes me think....

That dude in Ratatouille should have insisted that Remy was his service animal for his nervous condition. Then he could sue under the ADA for having the restaurant shut down.

[GRUMPY PIRATE]

Hmmmm, that makes me think....

That dude in Ratatouille should have insisted that Remy was his service animal for his nervous condition. Then he could sue under the ADA for having the restaurant shut down.

good point, but pretty sure French police or authoities would laugh at the suggestion!

(help him help him!!!, he spoke french!!)

[dazyhill]

The horse CMs at DLR are bomb proof and rarely react to anything but it takes a lot of training by professions horsemen who work up to a year with a horse CM before the animal can go onstage. Yes there are CMs that are donkeys and they work at Big Thunder Ranch. There was a podcast or what ever about CMs who run around on four legs. :D: They live at Circle D Ranch. ;)

The DL Circle D Horses are some of the best horses around. No horse however is completely bomb-proof. A few years back,when my friend still worked at Circle D,we went to the LA County Fair during the draft horse show. Some of the Circle D horses were being shown in some basic equitation (walk,trot,canter) and fun costume classes. After one of the classes,one of the Circle D horses, (I think he was a Belgian draft) spooked at something and took off like a rocket! Luckily,the CM that was riding him was able to get things under control quickly.
The Circle D horses didn't get first place in their classes,but people really enjoyed seeing the Disneyland horses on their day off. :)

[Syndrome]

That is 100 percent true. Horses are flight animals, so you can train them to be bomb proof in 99 percent of circumstances, but you never know when something can set them off. My old Appaloosa, Cochise, was pretty close to unflappable. I used to bring him to parades, and balloons, firecrackers, and other crazy stuff never bothered him one bit. You could put a little kid on his back and he'd basically babysit them. But every once in a while he'd pull a spook, and half the time it was over something stupid.

Training does help a LOT. I mess with my current horse, Figment, all the time, grabbing his tail, flipping stuff around his legs, etc. It paid off when he was at our church for their kids' camp one year. A toddler ran up behind him and grabbed one of his hind legs! He flinched a bit, but thank God he didn't kick.

[drcorey]

The DL Circle D Horses are some of the best horses around. No horse however is completely bomb-proof. A few years back,when my friend still worked at Circle D,we went to the LA County Fair during the draft horse show. Some of the Circle D horses were being shown in some basic equitation (walk,trot,canter) and fun costume classes. After one of the classes,one of the Circle D horses, (I think he was a Belgian draft) spooked at something and took off like a rocket! Luckily,the CM that was riding him was able to get things under control quickly.
The Circle D horses didn't get first place in their classes,but people really enjoyed seeing the Disneyland horses on their day off. :)

oh geez, the DL horses are so skitish its funny,
I once saw one cut a fart so loud the other ones near it jumped a little...
hmm, Belgian draft? I think I had one of those in a bar once.
the beer, not the horse, I hope.

[mechurchlady]

oh geez, the DL horses are so skitish its funny,
I once saw one cut a fart so loud the other ones near it jumped a little...
hmm, Belgian draft? I think I had one of those in a bar once.
the beer, not the horse, I hope.

Can you please post proof that Disneyland horses are skittish? They work very hard with them horses to bombproof them. Every day they are inundated by screams, shrill voices, people touching them, balloons, toys, and all sorts of things that a horse normally encounters. I triple dog dare you to prove to me that Disneyland horses are skittish I will later post if need be all the evidence that Disneyland horses are not skittish and are quite solid horses.

Belgians are a breed of horse and Belgian draft means it is a draft horse that is from Belgium. A beautiful breed and on of the DLR horses is about 6 feet at the shoulder.

[felinefan]

I once worked one day a week for my across the street neighbor, cleaning her daughter's horses' stalls and the arena. You can stop with the poop jokes now, okay? Anyway, this lady's daughter was in the LAPD Foothill Division Mounted Unit, and that's what she had most of her horses for. I remember when the Northridge Quake hit, when I went there to work, every little aftershock would send them running around the arena. Luckily, these were quarter horse crosses, so they never trampled me, but I got out of their way anyhow. Yes, horses are prey animals, adapted to plains and steppes, which is why their irises of their eyes aren't round like ours--helps in scanning for predators. Despite being domesticated for thousands of years, they still never forget to be aware of danger. Same with other domesticated animals.

[GuestJockey]

We were discussing this a few months ago backstage after a run-in with a guest who wanted to leave her "comfort poodle" tied to her ECV while she went into Soarin' to ride.

We decided we were going to get a service falcon and send it to get us fastpasses. "Go, Mordecai!"