Can't believe what I have just witnessed

I'm with you, OP! Your pony was definitely being altruistic! It's like the garden of Eden where all the animals were friends.

Such a lovely pony! My DHorse used to watch mice with interest but no malice, however he repeatedly, deliberately and happily drowned rats in his water bucket. You could tell when he had struck in the night because he would practically drag me into the stable to show me the victim and demand his reward. DH also believes horse tried to kill him more than once out of jealousy- he got very prickly with DH when I was pregnant.

In spite of his serial killing tendencies he was an angel, particularly with foals and my small children. He gave great hugs and hair snuffles. He just didn't like rats or DH

I love this story!! I love animals and really do believe that some of them are like your pony & help others. Your pony was helping it's little mouse pal! So sweet.

One of our male cats gets really upset when our DD cries. I thinks its because it hurts his ears, the same way cats get upset when people whistle.

These stories are lovely. Makes a nice change.

Goodfood we always had 2 goldfish, when one died the other was miserable. We bought a new one and it was in a little plastic bag and the main tank was huge. We put the whole bag in the big tank so that the water temp for new fish was not too much of a change and left it there to stabilize. The old fish could not stop dancing round the bag waiting for the new one to be let out and afterwards it was quite well again.

Ohwhat I heard that story from my grandad but it was badgers not rats!

I've seen horses being very protective of sheep before - bit bigger than mice but maybe not much more interesting.

I once overlooked a field of sheep, with a male and female horse 'couple' in it. Mostly they ignored the sheep but were very affectionate towards each other.

One day the owner came to move the sheep. The horses became really agitated, ran around trying to head off the people (who probably had a dog to help them). As the two people walked up the field, after moving the sheep, the male horse ran up behind one man, bucked and kicked his back legs in the direction of the man's head. Probably, he left a big enough gap that this was intended as a gesture, rather than an attempted decapitation. He was a powerful horse. The man seemed oblivious. I was watching from an upstairs window in a building at the top of the field, so it was really hard for me to judge the distance between them, as both were moving towards me. So inter-species protectiveness doesn't seem so odd to me.

I've also had female cats that became very agitated by the cry of a human baby. I think there's something very animal about baby noises.

My grandmother, a farmer her whole life, told us all that she once went to collect eggs from the chickens and saw 2 rats stealing eggs.
One was lying on its back, clutching the egg on its stomach while another rat had its tail between its teeth, dragging it along
My dad told me that too.
We had a cat and a dog. We used to keep their biscuits on a shelf in the laundry. Cat would knock the dogs bag over and flick them to the waiting dog. (She'd just knock hers over and scarf the lot)

I am so glad I've read this!

(Though also a bit green with jealousy over your horses and DDs lovely pony. My DD would love a pony)

Awww lovely story

my fat git would have probably eaten it

Bear saving bird .....

I came home once to find our two baby rabbits had escaped and my Skye terrier had cornered them and then laid across the corner to stop them escaping.

Heartwarming

What a lovely lovely story

Of course animals help each other. We used to have hedgehogs that we fed. One night we heard the neighbours cat growling and screeching she was telling the fox he couldn't eat the hedgehog food and chased him off. Then along came the mummy hedgehog with her babies from the bushes and ate their dinnwr while the cat sat by protectively watching them

I found one of my goldfishes on the floor once, had jumped out, I thought it was dead as not moving but was not stiff so I put it back into the tank, well it was still alive but wobbly and floating on its side, anyway another goldfish went up to it and helped it swim around until it was back to normal, then they separated! who knew goldfish had feelings, could be compassionate and assist a fellow in distress!!! absolutely incredible, but it happened! congrats on such a clever pony.

What a lovely thread OP and monkey. It's made me laugh and cry. Cheered me right up. Thank you

Donttouchthatlarry-

It awful but I'm giggling away imagining a moody horse stomping on mice then looking all happy when he gets one.

Good news for a change....yippee!!

I love this thread.

I grew up with a cat that would bat cooling cakes off the top of a high cupboard for the dog that was the reason they'd been put up a height in the first place.

The cat was definitely more intelligent than the dog mind. She'd eat wasps and bees just for the hell of it!

Monkey, my horse used to do that as well!

The amount of tears that got absorbed into her coat through my teenage years...

My grandmother, a farmer her whole life, told us all that she once went to collect eggs from the chickens and saw 2 rats stealing eggs.
One was lying on its back, clutching the egg on its stomach while another rat had its tail between its teeth, dragging it along
No one believed her but I completely believe they would cooperate like that to get food!

That's lovely and kind of him - one of mine prefers to stamp on them! Several times I've found flattened mice (that I thought were bits of poo!) whilst mucking out .

My childhood dog (afghan hound) and the cat (came to house as a kitten after dog was there) were best friends used to sleep together etc... Cat used to follow dog on walks round park. Sadly we had to rehome both animals due to my brother's chronic asthma and allergy to both (only found this out later when had both animals) and mum rehomed them and cat went to live up the road and dog with territorial army a good few miles away. Cat used to come to house and garden from its new home looking for his doggy friend.

Animals are deadly creatures, we humans could learn a lot from studying them and heeding their behaviour

Ohhh!!! I'm welling up here...
(BTW I believe you and what a lovely pony (smile)