Male bonding over a beer.

It all started innocently enough. I asked Brad to get out his little pocket tape measure to unscientifically find out how tall Wildairo was. As you can see Wildairo is watching the tape very carefully and in his usual fashion he stands his ground. Brad estimated his height at 59" or 14.3 hh. Because wild horse mature later than well fed domestic ones, I think Wildairo will top 15 hh's before he's finished growing. He looked smaller in the pen when I adopted him and I prefer shorter horses because I have short legs.



Brad had just got home from work and was enjoying a beer. I suggested that he tried to bond a bit more with Wildairo because Wildairo acts leery of him. So Brad offered him some beer and my boy wanted to drink it!



From day one Wildairo has eaten everything I've given him so I shouldn't have been surprised he want to find out what was in the can.



While the poor old Clydesdale's are working hard hauling around kegs of Budweiser, somewhere on a ranch out west there's a lazy Mustang sucking down the suds and not doing a lick of work.



The BLM asked us what we were going to feed him but they never asked us what we were going to give him to drink! I told Brad if they thought we were getting this Mustang drunk they'd march him out of here in hobbles.

Disclaimer; There was only a little drop of beer in the can because Brad doesn't like to share his beer. I have a feeling Wildairo would drink beer given the chance because he seemed to love the smell of it.

I took a closer look at the photo and it looks like Wildairo's grinning! It's a little unnerving the way he acts like he's been drinking out of cans all his life. Who is this horse and where did he come from. ha ha.