08/09/2022
Introducing our first pony! Meet the shortest man in the barn yet filled with the most s***k! A little Razzle Dazzle AKA RAZZ!
Mr Razz is definitely the trouble maker of our two horses. He has been a part of my life for going on 18 years this fall. Just how old is this little fella you may ask? He turned 24 years old this past spring but he doesnāt act a day over seven years.
Razzs first home was an Amish farm where he was taught how to pull a cart! (He hasnāt pulled a cart in probably 19+ years but just last week rescued our lawn mower for the road down our quarter mile driveway and pulled it like he was trained yesterday!) after being sold to a pair of grandparents for grandchildren I was the next lucky girl that got to love on him. We took him to his new home where he got a little extra TLC. His mane had to be shaved off because it was completely full of burrs. Fortunately we saved his tail which was also in jeopardy of being shaved off. But hey Hair grows back! A few years later Mr. Razzy was diagnosed with cushings disease and has foundered. Cushings disease attacks the thyroid and causes many different problems. The biggest one being he grows a thick long coat year round and has to be shaved at least three times a year. Also against his will we have to be careful how much sugar he takes in because his body canāt regulate it. He took the long drive from Illinois to here, Havelock NC, in June 2018. He has had many firsts here such as his first swim in the Nuese River, first hurricane, airplane crash and wild fire. All of this happening within one year of his arrival!!
Through all of the these odds against him he has trained many many young girls and boys along his way. He was the first ever horse or pony to show me how incredible their spirit is. Heās what some would call my āheart horse. ā
Being 24 years old is quiet an old man in the horse world however you can still find Razz jumping a 3 foot tall barrier just to get to some sugar he knows heās not supposed to have or Encouraging his barn mate Dakota to go cause some mischief down the road at the neighbors house. He also still loves to gallop around faster than the wind carrying me on his back just like we used to many years ago. He has been in more āretirementsā than I can count but always finds himself getting bored and begging to be ridden again.
Next up is Slug-a-Lug AKA Dakota
