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Nov 27, 2009 | 4:56 PM PST

My sister was telling this story at Thanksgiving dinner yesterday about one of her coworkers...

This couple decides they are going to buy a miniature horse for their 7 year old son this year for Christmas. They find someone who raises them and head off to buy this horse after telling their son that Santa called them and needed them to come pick up one of his presents early.  The husband asks his wife if they need to take a trailer and they decide they should be able to put a miniature horse in the back of their Tahoe...it's miniature, right? So, they take off for this town called Prosperity to buy the horse. When the get there the guy asks them how they plan to get the horse back home and they tell him they plan to let it ride in the back of the Tahoe. It will fit, right? He tells them "Yeah, it will probably fit but you won't have any glass in the vehicle by the time you get where you're going and you're likely to get injured because this isn't like a dog that will just lay down in the back seat for the ride home." So  the husband goes down to the Tractor Supply store and buys a dog kennel, comes back and asks the guy which miniature horse is his. The seller tells him, "which ever one you want to catch". So, this guy has to run out into the field and chase the miniature horses until he finally gets ahold of one. They have to pretty much stuff it into the dog kennel and this little horse is NOT happy. Nor is the couple. The horse neighs at the top of it's lungs and struggles inside the kennel the entire trip and stinks to high heaven so they have to drive with the windows down. They pull up at red traffic lights and people are looking at them like they are completely nuts. So, they finally get this horse to their house and realize they haven't thought about where they are going to keep it. They don't have fencing, no stall, no barn. Nothing. So, they have to go out and buy the supplies to build what it needs. They kept it in a regular outdoor dog kennel until they got that done. And, they have now found out that you can't ride the horse for at least a year.

This is one of those Christmas presents that will take the word "Merry" out of the equation. One of those spur-of-the-moment purchases they will have to look at and feed for a year before their son can enjoy it...