I love my new horse, Sir Richard.

It's cold today so I threw him some hay at the butt crack of dawn. I asked him to back off to throw it in the feeder. He turned away.

I came in a few minutes later with a bucket of water to top off the big heated water bucket.

He hustled over to take a look. "oh, nothing to see here...it's just water," he says.

I reached out and gave him some scratches. He leaned in close and we exchanged breaths.

He turned to go back to his feeder so I told him "Off you go then." with a small wave of my hand.