It is only during the short window of time after the grass begins to grow and before the fruit sets on the trees that we can let the horses graze in the orchard. There's nothing to eat before growing season, and if we let them in there after the fruit sets they would eat all the green fruit and get colic. But right now, the window is open, and we are putting the horses to graze in the orchard almost every day.
Which means there is always fresh horse poop in the orchard.
Which means this:
Haku loves to roll in fresh horse poop. He loves it almost as much as he loves tearing up feather pillows and chasing the sheep. And he does not understand why we insist on removing all his lovely smelly horse-poop camouflage by rubbing him with a soapy towel before we let him back in the house. He only wants to jump back into our bed and roll around in it, to give us some of his beautiful fragrance. Because he loves us. That's all.
Our girl Bella (also with lots of white fur) does the same thing with horse poop, cow poop, deer poop. She comes in a lovely shade of bright green this time of year and can't understand why she has to get in the tub right away. The joys of spring, huh?
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