One day I will learn to take my goofy selfies with the camera
not pointed at the sun...
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| That day was not yesterday. |
In other news, somebody has figured out back muscling and neck muscling and is starting to look more and more like a real horse. So of course I only got a 3/4 view proof of this. lol
Someone has also figured out that humans sometimes hide treats and that maybe if he puts his mouth on said humans, they will give him treats.
He seemed somewhat surprised when I kicked his butt for that little trick.
Also, a thing to file under
weird shit the Appaloosa gene does: my horse has stripes.
I've seen LP horses with rib stripes before; it's really easy to mistake rib stripes for ribs standing out, though, so I don't tend to post photos of that when it shows up. But this is on his spine. He's also got lots of golden patches and lots of almost black patches; based on this year's shed, those golden patches are going to be white, probably when he sheds out for the winter.
It was too freaking hot to go chase down Cessa, so no fat bay mare photos this weekend. :)
In other news, this is my next horsey project: organization.
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| It's not that I keep ALL of my horse stuff in the car. It's just that it takes me 10 minutes to unload what I do keep in there... |
lol my trunk looks like that too. also i've seen apps with what appear to be dorsal stripes, so maybe that's what's going on?
ReplyDeleteThe app stuff is such an undiscovered country in terms of what it can do to color that honestly, god only knows. lol Dorsal stripes are usually associated with dun/countershading, but his mom doesn't have one and who knows on Dad, because his pattern makes him mostly white. The varnish roaning that comes with the app gene tends to leave behind color on the bony bits (which is why you get the funky barred look to the face and dark legs on roaned-out apps), so it could potentially be that instead, since the spine is a bony bit. Neither one really explains the *stripes*!
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