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I've never seen her so dirty. It's good tho! It means she's feeling good enough to roll around like a dingus!

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[–] Slowy@lemmy.world 27 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I love seeing the updates about Sandy living her best life, looks like you’re doing a great job with her.

[–] RebekahWSD@lemmy.world 10 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Dingus is an extremely good word! Animals are often dinguses yes yes.

[–] SippyCup@lemmy.ml 9 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I know Painted is a breed of horse but I can't help but think of the time that a guy would literally paint and dye horses to create convincing sub ins, then sometimes shoot them full of heroin to make them faster or slower, depending on the dose.

[–] LaunchesKayaks@lemmy.world 12 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] SippyCup@lemmy.ml 11 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Oh. Oh boy. Are you in for an interesting bit of horse history.

I first heard about this in episode 469 of The Dollop about Peter Christian Barrie. But if an hour and a half of two jackasses giggling their way through it isn't quite how you'd like to have this delivered to you, this is a write up about the event:

https://www.narratively.com/p/historys-greatest-horse-racing-cheat-and-his-incredible-painting-trick

[–] X@piefed.world 3 points 2 weeks ago

Damn good story, great read!

[–] Scripplet@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Sandy updates continue to be my favorite fediverse thing. Thanks for keeping up the frequent updates!

[–] LaunchesKayaks@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

Omg that makes me so happy! I'm glad you enjoy her! Posting updates is one of my fave things, so I don't plan on stopping lol