Joe Scribner
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I was talking to an old family friend of my grandparents last night and we got onto the topic of interesting animal behavior. I'm 48 now but I remembered when I was 10 or 11 I spent the summer at the farm and my job was to clean out the stalls. We had an Apaloosa horse named Silver Cloud who had some interesting habits. First is if you walked by his stall without talking with him he'd reach out and grab onto your shirt until you paid him some attention. Second thing was while cleaning his stall. If you were on his left side there was no issue at all but if I happened to go around him on his right side he'd kind of lean on me and pin me to the wall. Then he'd look back over his shoulder and just kind of grin at me. I swear that horse was laughing at my predicament! I finally figured out to just turn him around in the stall and he wouldn't do it. That horse sure had a personality!