Thursday Video: When You’re Smilin’…

We dare you not to smile along with this foal who is perhaps enjoying the best scritches of his young life.

“When you’re smilin’, the whole world smiles with you,” sang Louis Armstrong, and we find ourselves in agreement after watching this adorable little video going viral on the interwebs.

There’s nothing more satisfying in the horse world than giving your favorite equine friend all the scritches he wants: that deep tissue-reaching part-massage part-back scratch that brings on a serious of quivery-lip hysterical faces that make us grin. The only thing perhaps better than that is finding the scritches spot on a baby horse.

Exhibit A:

Did you smile along? We bet you did. We can’t help it, little guy — we’re just happy for you.

Go riding!