18 Reader-Submitted Tolerant Horses: Costumes, Clothes & Tarps Edition

Melissa-Angel Carbonell

Dawn Klein Longman: “My lovely mare all dolled up for a ‘Pimps and Hoes’ Halloween extravaganza.”

Kim Kester: “My 1/2 Percheron 1/2 QH mare Dusty was kind enough to be Little Red Riding Hood, while I was the big bad wolf in grandma’s clothes. She had stuffed arms on her chest that carried a basket.”

Emily Kate: “My OTTB who, as his name suggests, is a big Dill. The girl that retrained him dressed him up for Christmas”

Kristin M. Zuzek: “3rd day of county fair – costume class…we don’t even think he was embarrassed lol”

Presley Carico

Chelsea Rae: “Wearing an Easter Bonnet!! #withstyle”

Rachael Rosenthal: “‘I’m a baby moose, in shoes!’ (Build-A-Bear shoes are the exact same shape as baby horse feet, just in case anyone is curious)”

Natalie Leighton: “My gelding Johnny Cash paying homage to his namesake!”

Brittany Hook: “Ygritte minds her melon. And blames the children.”

Ashlea Carravallah: “My ever so tolerant boy. He lets me get away with a lot.”

Christine Alexandra Clolinger: “Cheri getting used to the noodle curtain of death for the first time. Now we can back up and leg yield through it!”

Victoria Reid Smith: “Who needs a turnout when you have a tarp?!”

Heather Malamisura: “My mare and I, just going for a walk with our tarp.”

Kendra Shook: “My young Quarter Horse, Abednego, he has always been very tolerant of everything I throw at him and is a very quick learner. The story behind this photo: I had first introduced him to the tarp and when he first saw it he freaked, one minute later he was completely desensitized to it and let me put it completely over him and he went back to eating (at this time he was under two years old!). I started desensitizing him to many things when he was very young, even before he was 1 year old and I think that is what has helped him be such a laid-back horse. I love my little guy, and I am so lucky to have him”

Kayla McCracken: ” It was really windy one day so I made a game out of the tarp with my 2 year old. I would throw it up in the air near him and try to make it land on him like a cape. I made it after about 10 tries!”