Shelter Cat Turns On Faucet, Causes $5k in Flood Damage

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24. She comes from a line of smart horses

She's sixth generation bred and born on my farm. Her grandsire was the smartest horse I ever owned. To keep him out of trouble we gave him a fifty five gallon plastic barrel to play with. He'd spin it around, turn it up on end, roll it uphill just so he'd have the fun of chasing it back downhill.

Before we got him the barrel he spent his nights checking the boards on the fence in his paddock. He'd walk from section to section, grab each board with his teeth and shake it. If it felt loose, he'd work on it until it came loose. During the time before the barrel there was not one morning without at least one board down, often two or three of them. He wasn't trying to get out - he was just bored and looking for something to do.

When he went to the trainer, they had road cones to use to make patterns to work the horses around. He'd spend his off time carrying the cones around, rearranging them. One morning the trainer came out to find all the cones in one corner of the paddock; another morning they were all in a ground on the other side of the fence. Another day they were in a big circle in the middle of the field.

He was a fun horse to work with, seldom needed to shown what we wanted twice. He ended up working cattle in Idaho, a long way from his Florida birth home.