Cocoa....

well, now on to the next critter.....

Cocoa , the miniature horse....

 

We have had cocoa for a number of years.....

We first got him for my oldest daughter, of course for the youngest as well....but he was gong to mainly be the oldest....she was four years old and so was Cocoa....he was a stallion when we got him...
A friend of ours told us to get him gelded , he would make a better pet with him being gelded so we did....the friend came over and with someone else help gelded him....my oldest thought they was killing him....
We sold him once or rather my hubby sold him, I really didn't want to sell him, but we did....needless to say he is back home where he belongs...the family we sold him to lived right down the road, they gave him back to us when the youngest came down with Leukemia...that is all she talked about while in the hospital during initial treatment....so they gave him back . I told my hubby he is here until he dies.....
He likes to race...loves roasted marshmallows...or course all of the other horse foods....

In the Spring when the other neighbors ride their horse by here, their is one horse they ride that gets spooked by him because it doesn't realize Cocoa is a horse....

Every time I am out gardening, pulling weeds( constant chore)...he nickers and gets a bucket full of the green weeds....

He puts on a very heavy coat every winter , he looks like a little bear, then come spring it all sheds off...
The girls have rode him when they was smaller, when we first got him....he is green broke and don't tolerate heavy people on his back.....
I enjoy watching him kick and buck when he is enjoying the weather or decides he needs to fill his cheerios...........

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