Ryan Hollis :: My Animals

Anyone that knows me, knows that I have tons of animals at my house. This is just a few of the many that I have.

Dogs

My mother bought Lou from the Humane Society, because she ran over my dog with the car. Lou is the craziest dog of all time. When he starts to run around he will not stop and he jumps in the air and runs around and barks at the wall and gets the biggest stick he can find and knocks your legs out from under you with it. He is crazy. He also loves to ride in the car.

Molly is a dog that someone gave us, because she bit his grandson on the face when he body slammed himself on the dog while the dog was sleeping. The grandfather said she had to go. She loves to bark every time someone drives in the driveway.

Bud is a very old dog. He always waddles around and whines really loud for everyone to come and pet him. He is not very playful like my other dogs are, because he is so old. He hates getting his picture taken. This is the best picture I have ever taken of him. Usually he runs away if you have a camera, but I don't know how a dog can tell. I had to sneak up on him to get this close and he started running when he noticed me.

Horses

Fledge is an actual wild mustang. He is still not tamed, but he will let you get close to him. He will eat out of your hand if you have food, but he won't come up to you any other way. I christened him Fledge, because that was the name of the first flying horse in the book The Chronicles of Narnia: The Magician's Nephew

Cali is my show horse. She is the horse in the picture that's not being ridden. She is a registered paint. I show her in western pleasure, horsemanship, showmanship and halter. She broke her leg last summer, but the bone has grown back together and she can be ridden now. She won first place in her first show back from stall rest.

Toby is my first horse. He is more than 20 years old. I showed him before he started acting up when I showed him. My mother is the only one who rides him now.

Indian Princess is another mustang that I have. I used to show her too, but I quit showing her when I got Cali. She rears up a lot so I don't ride her much.

Bill is a foal that was given to me, because other horses in the man's pasture were fighting over the baby. He decided the only way to stop the fights was to get rid of the baby. She also needed to have a hernia repaired. He gave us the horse for free, as long as we paid for her to get the hernia repaired. I named her bill, because she looks just like Sam's pony, Bill, in The Lord of the Rings movies.

Cows

Betsy, the big cow in the picture, is a show cow that I showed a few years ago. She is very tame, and I can ride her around in the yard. Panda, her calf, is my newest animal. He was born recently and is having a great time.

Holley is my show heifer. She is a registered Maine Anjou (that's a breed of cow). She won second place in her class the Dixie National Livestock Show.

Custard used to be my show cow, but she will be too old to show at the next show. She got her name because the first time I showed her, to sign in they had to write down the cow's name. She didn't have a name yet, so I told the person filing out the form to make up something and that's what she came up with.

This is all the cows. Most of them don't have names.

Goats

Shamrock is my first show goat. I got her for my birthday. The last time she was supposed to have kids, she had twins and both of them died. She had twins the first time she was pregnant and they went to be supper for the mexicans.

This is Adam Savage. He was named after the host on Myth Busters of the same name. I am supposed to be walking him everyday, but this is continually slipping my mind.

Cats

Ricky Bobby de Cinco de Mayo is a kitty that I got recently. He came from my Aunt Cookie. He is sitting on my shoulder right now as I type this, and purring up a storm. You may ask how he got his name. My mother said his name should be Ricky, Ricky Bobby is cool, and I got him on Cinco de Mayo. Ricky Bobby Cinco de Mayo didn't sound right, so to go with the Mexican theme I added a de. Everyone involved survived. (Yeah, I know the picture is messed up... I'll fix it when I get around to taking a picture of my cat.)