From the time I saw this week's prompt first appear ...
I been trying to get some local horses to take a drink.
However they all are quite happy to
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| Munch away at the grass |
The smallest one might take a drink -
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| If there was not a fence in the way. |
He just has to be content to look at the water trough where others have been when I've not been about.
Police horses in a park alongside the Paint Creek Trail in Michigan have to do as they are told, but they do get a rest from time to time.
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| Rochester, Michigan - 2009 |
They even get taken to see the Clinton River nearby.
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| A drink for one |
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| And them both on a hot summer's day |
I'll try again with my local horses again tomorrow. If I do not succeed I know where I need to go to get a drink thanks to a special kind of horse.
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| The Cleveland Bay, Yarm |
After all if you can't make a horse take that drink, there is nothing that says you have to abstain.