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@dinodressage.bsky.social
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journal of an r+ trainer and her horde of feral cookie eaters🏳️‍🌈🐴

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c + the ponies🚀 @dinodressage.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
re: last episode, the girls are back together and have much havoc to wreak on the rest of the herd. slay queens🤝
two horses are pictured side by side in a grassy pasture. In the front, a big black mare is galloping, her body outstretched in the peak of her stride. She has three short socks and a disconnected star and snip. Behind her, levitating above the ground as if she’s being abducted by a spaceship, is a chestnut mare. Her mane is flying upwards as she hovers a couple feet above the ground, mid jump/buck. The mares gallop side by side in the pasture. The chestnut mare is closer toward the viewer as they move from left to right. The black mare is pictured behind the chestnut mare. The chestnut has her head tucked, playing a bit, and faint dapples are visible in her winter coat.The black mare is mid rear, with her head tucked low to her chest and her front legs not far from the ground. Her star and snip are more visible, and she has mud splattered on her legs and chest.The chestnut mare is pictured galloping across the frame from left to right. She is outstretched, reaching with her lead. Her mane and tail are unruly — long with tangles. She has a big white star on her forehead and no other visible white markings.
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c + the ponies🚀 @dinodressage.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
Andy also celebrated her one month anniversary at her barn by getting kicked out. it’s a super small, private facility where all three horses live out together 24/7 with no way to separate, and she can’t get along with the resident gelding. she reunites w Solstice in Ohio in five days! Slay queen😵‍💫🫣🤩
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c + the ponies🚀 @dinodressage.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
andy celebrated moving back to Chicago with a choke episode and luxury vet visit (all expenses paid). net win, according to her, because she didn’t die AND she got a lot of love from the all woman vet team who took care of her. slay queen.
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c + the ponies🚀 @dinodressage.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
screaming, crying, throwing up and hoping he doesn’t have osteomyelitis😩
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c + the ponies🚀 @dinodressage.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
big ears never went away🥹
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c + the ponies🚀 @dinodressage.bsky.social · 10/08/2025
i’m itching to gentle another mustang but the budget says absolutely not😩
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c + the ponies🚀 @dinodressage.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
there’s nothing like an Olympian showing his true colors by having a meltdown on facebook and siccing his following on another professional over a misunderstanding
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c + the ponies🚀 @dinodressage.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
i don’t understand what magical growth potion andy is drinking, but this girl grows her hooves expeditiously
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c + the ponies🚀 @dinodressage.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
sometimes, her Percheron influence really pops off
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c + the ponies🚀 @dinodressage.bsky.social · 03/08/2025
horse training brain rot is so bad bc tell me why I turned my turn signal on, made the turn, then gave my car a bridge signal for doing the correct behavior😭
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c + the ponies🚀 @dinodressage.bsky.social · 03/08/2025
little deer🫶
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born miserable @bornmiserable.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
America: where someone suffering from homelessness or schizophrenia gets thrown in prison, but someone who openly molests children is elected president
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c + the ponies🚀 @dinodressage.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
THREE GOOD DAYS🥳🥳
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c + the ponies🚀 @dinodressage.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
the good news is that S’s teeth are fine, but the next step is an ultrasound to check for a granulosa cell tumor. our new vet thinks this is a pretty good possibility while the last vet thought it was unlikely. if it is, it would definitely mean the end of her behavioral issues🤞
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c + the ponies🚀 @dinodressage.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
cause WHY is my 24yo mare acting like this for another mare😫 girl! you’re TWENTY FOUR! she has not stopped screaming for three days, and she spends every spare moment trying to convince Andy that she’s pretty. exhausted😭
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c + the ponies🚀 @dinodressage.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
couldn’t imagine a better partner than her💜
A deep chestnut mare stands across the frame, posing for a fine art photo with a black background. She has her neck extended, nose reaching forward, and her front right leg is tucked up underneath her belly. Her mane is braided into many long, simple braids, and she wears a leather halter with lilac padding. Bright eyed and striking on a dark background.
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c + the ponies🚀 @dinodressage.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
just paid the deposit for Andy’s first month of board back in chicago🥹 so excited to have my girl back, and this barn is so perfect. It’s a tiny private barn that only does 24/7 turnout, but it’s also full care and it’s not too far out of the city.
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c + the ponies🚀 @dinodressage.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
solstice doesn’t know what she did to become the family punching bag
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c + the ponies🚀 @dinodressage.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
alright. i fear it’s too late to acceptably ask this, but why is it called the dressage pony cup if there are so many large horses there? like wdym my friends with 16hh tbs are showing at the pony cup?
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c + the ponies🚀 @dinodressage.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
it’s so fun that the baby mustang, who, coincidentally, is the same age as the giant TB, is fifteen thousand times better for hoof care despite working on it far less frequently. and that’s on racetrack trauma being a bitch to overcome
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c + the ponies🚀 @dinodressage.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
hiatus over because i forgot that andy had her first posed portrait session ever and i am so ridiculously obsessed with her🫶
Andy, a chestnut mare with a wavy greying mane and white star, stands in a tall, grassy field. She is wearing a leather halter with lilac padding and a brass nameplate that reads: “Andy”. Her ears are pricked and her coat is shiny. She is standing across the frame toward the viewer’s left.Andy faces the opposite direction (the viewer’s right) and the photo is cropped just behind her shoulders. Her thick mane falls over both sides of her neck, so it is visible in both images.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
History isn’t supposed to be comfortable. It’s supposed to be honest. We don’t learn from a past we pretend didn’t happen. Rewriting our history doesn’t protect us. It makes us weaker. And more likely to repeat the very mistakes they don’t want us to remember.
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c + the ponies🚀 @dinodressage.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
can we talk about how ‘bleeders’ are so normalized in the gymkhana world? why are they so prevalent in that area of the sport but i’ve never heard of an English type sport horse having that issue?
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c + the ponies🚀 @dinodressage.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
me vs surrounding myself with plants to keep the doom at bay
A white cube storage shelf has been converted into a plant shelf. Two of the cubes are filled with various types of plants in clear nursery pots. Each cube has a grow light attached to the top to provide light to the plants inside. The plants include Manjula, Pearls n Jade, Snow Queen, Glacier, and Golden pothos as well as a pink syngonium, a pink princess philodendron, and a couple milk confetti syngoniums. A few glass containers filled with water hold pothos cuttings.
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c + the ponies🚀 @dinodressage.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
i love being from chicago bc yeah, go ahead and investigate us, we all hate him lmfao
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Ironpoint Equestrian @ironpointeq.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
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A screenshot of the https://ironpoint-equestrian.square.site/ store front page showing the bay mare wearing pink halter fleeces and the row of featured products, the standard treat pouch, the drawstring treat pouch, the utility harness, and the healing clay.
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c + the ponies🚀 @dinodressage.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
wowee two freshly trimmed queens! this makes S’s first full trim since coming out of holding and Andy’s first time standing for both feet in the same session. so proud of these lil ‘stangs🥹💗
Two horses stand on a wood platform behind a red pipe gate. On the left is a big black mare with a star and snip, who is mid head shake — her ears are flowing in different directions. On the right is a chestnut mare with a big star and very thin, almost invisible stripe. The sky is a cloudy grey and green trees fill the background.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
It's 2015. President Barack Obama has accepted a "sky palace" jumbo jet from the Qatari government, which he'll own after he leaves office. "Everybody relax," he says in an interview with the New York Times. Everyone does. The networks then televise the military parade in his honor on his birthday.
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c + the ponies🚀 @dinodressage.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
dropping two pothos and a monstera all over my living room floor was not on today’s bingo card
the Duolingo bird has melted into a puddle. He is a cartoon and is lime green with an orange beak and feet. The background is hot pink
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c + the ponies🚀 @dinodressage.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
when you’re just little and the 17hh incel keeps bothering you, so you have to stand up as high as your tiny legs allow you to
two horses oppose one another across a fence. On the left is Ari, a big, dark bay Thoroughbred gelding. On the right side is Andy, a chestnut mare. Andy is rearing, with her hooves above Ari’s head. She is very tall, but at the same time is also very short.
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c + the ponies🚀 @dinodressage.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
so excited to have these photos of Andy’s parasympathetic letdown after being harassed by Ari. like how neat!
Andy, a chestnut mare with a big white star above eye level and a messy mane, stands behind a mesh horse fence. Her ears are facing back and she is holding tension all across her face. Just a few seconds later, Andy gives a big yawn. Her eyes are closed and her nostrils are flared as she yawns.
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c + the ponies🚀 @dinodressage.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
new vocations is really the best for giving us eleven tubes of GastroGard this weekend😭❤️
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c + the ponies🚀 @dinodressage.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
many, many thoughts about XC day but for now, here’s a dog with a stick
Three dogs are being walked by handlers. At the front of the group is a golden retriever with his tail and chest dyed orange. He is mid gallop stride and is holding a big old stick in his mouth. He’s very proud of himself — the stick is about three feet long. The two dogs behind him are a black and white poodle and a brown Aussie.
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c + the ponies🚀 @dinodressage.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
if i’m ever at defender, it’s always because of them🥹
Elisa Wallace, a woman wearing a navy blue quarter zip and light colored breeches, stands with her arm draped over the neck of a chestnut gelding. He is looking past her with his ears pricked and she is mid laugh.
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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
He’s never stepping down, you know.
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c + the ponies🚀 @dinodressage.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
I swear if i see this mfer with it on the XC course tmrw, it’ll be on sight
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c + the ponies🚀 @dinodressage.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
someone stole my water bottle while i was shooting show jumping at the horse park today and i’m gonna cry😭 my mfin emotional support water bottle
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c + the ponies🚀 @dinodressage.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
well, well, well… if it isn’t the consequence of my own actions
A big, dark bay gelding reaches over a mesh fence and bites a chestnut mare on her side. She is reeling away. The gelding’s ears are laying back and the mare’s ears are pinned.The bay gelding has his head thrown up to avoid the chestnut mare, who has spun around with her mouth open to bite him back. She looks ferocious and he looks like he is facing the consequence of his own actions
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c + the ponies🚀 @dinodressage.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
my perfect girl❤️
A deep chestnut mare with a big white star stands with her head between a gate and fence post. Her ears are pricked, she is looking right at the viewer. She is wearing a dirty lavender nylon halter.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
People often ask what a coalition of 200,000 can do. The answer’s simple — with all our free time (since a lot of us got fired), we’re out here causing a lot of good trouble.
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c + the ponies🚀 @dinodressage.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
my hometown showed up today. this little town that made history during the last debate stood up for justice and rights for all🇺🇸🫶
A black sign reading ‘Love thy neighbor no exceptions’ in red, yellow, and green letters.A cloth sign reading ‘FIGHT FASCISM’ in the center. Scattered across the sign in smaller lettering, the sign reads: ‘disability rights’, ‘human rights’, ‘LGBTQ rights’, ‘Palestinian rights’, ‘BLM’, ‘Women’s Rights’, ‘Trans rights’, and ‘Immigrant rights’.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
The entire permanent staff of the Division of Environmental Health Science and Practice was laid off. This division addresses issues such as asthma and air pollution, climate change and health, childhood lead poisoning, and cancer clusters.
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c + the ponies🚀 @dinodressage.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
this adorable lil guy went home recently and i just got around to editing his photos and he’s just🥹🫶
A crocheted chestnut horse stands on top of a dark wood table. He has a curly mane and tail (courtesy of yarn). His face is half piebald, with the more chestnut side facing the viewer. He also has four stockinged legs. The white markings are felted onto the horse over top of the crochet. He wears a wooden neck tag with a watercolor portrait of himself. A head on photo of the same horse, this time showing a close up of his face. He has a dark muzzle peeking through his white markings, and a black ring around his left eye. His neck tag is just peeking through the bottom of the image.
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c + the ponies🚀 @dinodressage.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
three days until i am horse-side again so i’m spending time learning how to paint horses with watercolor🥲
I am holding a small wooden tag in my hand. On the tag is a watercolor painting of a chestnut paint horse. His face is piebald on one side with a couple black spots in his white markings. He’s cute!
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c + the ponies🚀 @dinodressage.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
my in laws took us to Disney a couple weeks ago and i may not have taken any photos of us on the trip, but i did take pics of all the animals🤭
A scrawny grey squirrel has a nut in its mouth. It is standing on its hind legs with its front legs on top of a sidewalk curb. A brown duck sits in some green shrubbery. I think it’s a female, maybe!A mallard stands on the concrete edge of a water feature, looking right at the camera.A tiny brown lizard clings to a red brick wall. It’s probably the size of a finger.
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Kait’sCritters @mares4life.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Please please please watch and share.
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corbyn ⓥ @horselorax.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Eat the rich.
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c + the ponies🚀 @dinodressage.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
my partner and i were gifted a robot vacuum from our neighborhood free group, and this thing is life changing😭
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c + the ponies🚀 @dinodressage.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
i’m bored with all these economic blackout days/weeks/months. cmon, up the ante and just, I don’t know, stop buying from those companies altogether?
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gen 🌿💐🐴🌏🌈 @clickerbabe.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Made for my insta but figured I’d share here too in case anybody finds it interesting! (3 more slides cont. in replies)
title of post: “Horses learn more effectively when experiencing positive emotions”The goal of this study was to explore how emotions impact learning in horses. 

34 riding horses from ages 3 to 21 were studied; half of the horses were given Synthetic Equine Appeasing Hormone (EAP) while the other half were not. Then, researchers analyzed the horses’ cognition and emotions in a reward-based learning task in order to determine if emotion affects learning ability.Results showed that horses given the equine appeasing hormone (EAP) who had a more positive mental state also performed better on the learning task, giving more correct responses than horses not given EAP who had a more negative mental state.

The EAP group was correct 93% of the time, while the non-EAP/placebo group was only correct 58% of the time.The task seemed to be equally physiologically arousing for horses given the appeasing hormone and horses not given the hormone. Emotional state did not seem to have an effect on heart rate or heart rate variability. Both groups showed a significant increase in baseline heart rate during the learning task, indicating some physiological arousal.
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