Rare Breeds (well, in the UK.)

[lil_shepherd]

We ended up at another Collette's Horse and Dog show the other week, and just to show that even at a small horse, dog or cat show you might find yourself seeing something unusual (at least for the UK!) here is a Fjord pony

Comments

[lukadreaming]

That's a very handsome pony!

[lil_shepherd]

They are one of the small horses that I wouldn't mind owning. (As you know, I am not thin and I have very short legs and have problems with big, wide horses.) This one probably isn't up to my weight, but many of the breed certainly are.

[starcat_jewel]

Very handsome indeed. Would that color be called bay, or dun, or something else (possibly breed-specific)?

[lil_shepherd]

It's a dun.

However, there are a number of varieties of 'dun' (I didn't know about all of them, except for the 'golden dun' found in the Akel-Teke)on which Wiki gives rather too much info for someone not engaged in horse breeding, so approach this link at your peril.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dun_gene

[madfilkentist]

A real "dog and pony show"!

(I don't know if you're familiar with that term as techie slang; it means a demonstration of some new technology or product.)

[lil_shepherd]

Yup. Though it doesn't seem to be used much in the UK - however, I am rather familiar with Threes Rev 1.1.

*grin*

[kitschyduck]

Oooh where was this? My mum went to a dog show at the weekend. She was with my Shar-pei and he was the only Shar-pei there if you saw him :D

[lil_shepherd]

These were at Ingatestone, which is off the A12 near Margaretting and on the line from Liverpool Street to Ipswich (from Southend you would change at Shenfield.)

However, they run shows at a number of locations across the SE - this is their website:

http://www.cbequine.co.uk/

[saare_snowqueen]

I don't know if she's sorry, but if I were the dog, I'd sue

[lil_shepherd]

Or possibly Rowling should sue. This outfit won the class, by the way.

[shiv5468]

That poor dog.

The Bracco Italiano looks lovely though

[lil_shepherd]

She was a sweetie.