May 2009 Story Contest
Cow or Horse? by cross-countrychick
"Mommy, is that a cow or a horse?" the little boy asked. He stood only a few feet away from the stocky chestnut gelding.
Suddenly, his little eyes bolted straight up with the perfect answer to the question.
Cappy is known as an "easy keeper." Easy keeping horses are those that eat an ordinary amount hay and immediately go down the path of "once on the lips, forever on the hips."
Even with a restricted feeding program, horses like Cappy are usually called obese.
Whenever he eats might as well stay in his belly because that's what it seems to do.
"Well, honey, what do you think?" the mother answered as she returned the question back to the boy.
The child gazed up at the mighty chestnut girth looming above him.
The young mother asked, "Do you think that he looks more like a cow or a horse?"
A few minutes had passed. He didn't seem to like either of his choices. Perhaps he felt that it was a trick question.
Putting this little hands on this hips looking very pleased, he turned to his mother and declared his final answer: "I think he looks more like a PIG!"