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Scout
@moonheart.bsky.social
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🌟 she/her
🎂 1994
💘 @pulsetzar
🐴 trial by fire horse trainer & breeder
🌾 species appropriate diet enthusiast
🧬 color genetic aficionado
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Scout @moonheart.bsky.social · Dec 10
Hello, all! I am always offering these YCH smiling horses!

If you can’t afford one, please share this post as we can always use the extra pocket change. P.S. It’s cheaper to get more than one! 🫶

#ych #equineartist #equineart #horseart
A template slash your character here for a horse exhibiting the Flehman’s response, a posture where the animal curls up its lip in what looks like a smile. The horse has a short mane and is looking over its shoulder.
moonheart.bsky.social
I am so glad we deworm our horses now with positive reinforcement. It is SO much faster and efficient. 🪱
December 3, 2025 at 6:56 PM
moonheart.bsky.social
I’m gonna try to start posting here again. ✌️
November 17, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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ironpointeq.bsky.social
This Celestial Constellation themed pouch is available for 💲65

Eye catching, durable, spacious, and machine washable-- this bag has it all! Perfect for R+ training, foraging, or as an everyday purse.

DM to claim, or check out the "Pre-Made" tab on our Square Site to order.
Front Photo showing the pouch standing upright, with the pocket flap closed. The main fabric is printed in a dark blue to purple gradient with a gold celestial themed print. The shoulder strap is made of dark navy blue nylon and the metal clips & D rings are black metal. Front photo showing the pouch standing upright with the pocket flap lifted, showing the inside that is printed with a darker complimentary celestial and zodiac in grey and sepia tones. Side photo showing the strap attached by a D ring and a swivel snap clip made of dark plated stainless steel. Back photo showing the pouch standing upright, with the celestial pattern
October 11, 2025 at 4:20 PM
moonheart.bsky.social
Little blue filly coming into some work (slowly)! She just had some misc tasks today with no real goal, but she did well with that!
Luna, a blue roan mare, being taken at a walk on the line. She is completely visible and moving clockwise. She doesn’t look terribly thrilled, but not terribly bothered either. Her croup is really starting to roan out but her neck, not so much. She wears a gray pad with a standard looking roping saddle that has a light tan pommel.
March 27, 2025 at 9:54 PM
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pulsetzar.bsky.social
"I need advice but only the kind that confirms my pre existing worldview that caused this problem to begin with"
March 27, 2025 at 2:55 PM
moonheart.bsky.social
The aliens have landed 👾
A photo of Strawberry, mostly her head, but she is walking towards me so a leg is visible, wearing a pink fly mask that has a nose cover. Strawberry is a young, graying red base made. She has a pretty wide blaze that goes all the way down her nose, thus the need for a nose cover fly mask. Her ears are up as she looks at me holding up the phone. Picture of Flame, a chestnut arabian, though it is hard to see the dishy snout with this fly mask on, wears a mask of the same brand to also cover his blaze. His is a reddish purple with ear covers as well as a nose cover.
March 26, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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pulsetzar.bsky.social
Someday I'll make real tutorials instead of DRAW GOOD NOT BAD but for now I'm busy with school and just trying to dispel the idea of a horse hoof being a weird meat can
A blue canvas with purple drawings of hooves split up into "weird" and "natural". The weird side includes a bunch of drawings of mammal limbs ending in an awkward dark, shiny cylinder. The cylinder occasionally has a metal, U shaped horseshoe attached. The bottom is an ambiguous dark circle with no features. I derisively compare it to a plunger. There are many frownie faces. The natural side shows a normal horse's hoof, which has the cushy padded heel bulbs on the back, mostly similar to other mammalian feet, but with a nail covering the toe. It is more square and less tall and rectangular from the front. On the bottom, it's circular with a triangle in the middle coming from the heel bulbs and pointing towards the toe.
March 25, 2025 at 11:55 PM
moonheart.bsky.social
Lil prancey boy 🐴
Toast approaching a young mare who is standing at the fence off camera. He randomly gets very excited (since he is a stud colt) when mares just…exist. Toast is a grulla champagne, a light-colored horse with darker brown points. He is properly “trit-trotting” up to the iron fence, showing off his Spanish breed conformation proper. He would make such a nice little dressage pony, lol. His front left is extended forward, with the diagonal back following. The front leg is nice and straight out. His neck is up and arched. This is the kind of behavior slash movements that (in part) inspired dressage.
March 23, 2025 at 11:02 PM
moonheart.bsky.social
340 DAYS IN FOAL FOR WILDFIRE!!! 340 days is the average gestation length in horses; she really could have this baby very soon!
Wildfire, a red mare, stands in profile and is very pregnant. She has some ventral edema (swelling) on her belly which is pretty normal this far into pregnancy. She is a stout, reining bred mare. She has a relaxed expression despite the massive belly, this picture taken after just eating breakfast. She wears magenta fly boots here. You can kinda see Zira, a bay mare, also pregnant, peeking from behind Wildfire. Strawberry can also be seen on the bale at the left edge of the picture.
March 18, 2025 at 5:24 PM
moonheart.bsky.social
The moon overseeing Luna in the pasture 🌙
A picture taken mostly of the sky with pastel clouds from gathering dusk. The moon hangs high, nearly full. A black horse grazes under a bare tree in a pasture. She’s actually blue roan, but her winter coat turns her black. There’s a donkey also on the very left edge of the picture.
March 17, 2025 at 12:20 AM
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pulsetzar.bsky.social
"It doesn't make a meaningful difference for one person to recycle/rescue one animal/give to charity/pick up trash/literally any good deed"

Partly correct, join us :)
March 14, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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weyodi.bsky.social
Here, amid the chaos, is my periodic reminder, if you don't have a livable planet nothing else matters.
March 12, 2025 at 12:32 PM
moonheart.bsky.social
The carefree face of a stud colt who doesn’t know his 🥜 are leaving tomorrow.
A picture from directly in front of Toast apparently receiving the best scratches of his life on his chest. He is a grulla champagne colt, which gives him slightly darker fur on his face, making an almost lavender color on the nose. He is tilting his head and pulling his lips into a parrot mouth shape. The lense focuses heavily on his snoot as he gently writhes. Flame can be sort of seen behind him, a chestnut gelding. Toast reaches nirvana during scratchies. This is a photo of him sticking his head up straight into the air. The majesty of this stallion knows no bounds. The eye is squinted in thoughtful ecstasy as he giraffe necks.
March 12, 2025 at 6:36 PM
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clickerbabe.bsky.social
Made for my insta but figured I’d share here too in case anybody finds it interesting! (3 more slides cont. in replies)
title of post: “Horses learn more effectively when experiencing positive emotions” The goal of this study was to explore how emotions impact learning in horses. 34 riding horses from ages 3 to 21 were studied; half of the horses were given Synthetic Equine Appeasing Hormone (EAP) while the other half were not. Then, researchers analyzed the horses’ cognition and emotions in a reward-based learning task in order to determine if emotion affects learning ability. Results showed that horses given the equine appeasing hormone (EAP) who had a more positive mental state also performed better on the learning task, giving more correct responses than horses not given EAP who had a more negative mental state. The EAP group was correct 93% of the time, while the non-EAP/placebo group was only correct 58% of the time. The task seemed to be equally physiologically arousing for horses given the appeasing hormone and horses not given the hormone. Emotional state did not seem to have an effect on heart rate or heart rate variability. Both groups showed a significant increase in baseline heart rate during the learning task, indicating some physiological arousal.
March 11, 2025 at 9:22 PM
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pulsetzar.bsky.social
"I've worked with hundreds of horses and positive reinforcement never worked!"
There's a suspicious common denominator here and it's not if horse's behavior can be modified by food LOL
March 11, 2025 at 11:59 PM
moonheart.bsky.social
Mar 1st ▶️ today! Wildfire is gearing up slowly for foaling! Most of this is probably edema, but she’s definitely progressing.
An older pic of Wildfire’s udder. It’s definitely bigger than normal, but most is likely edema. The latest picture of Wildfire’s udder! Definitely more swollen, so probably more edema, but we’re getting closer to the foaling window with this progress.
March 11, 2025 at 5:53 PM
moonheart.bsky.social
Haysmr, anyone? 🌾
March 7, 2025 at 9:15 PM
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davelevitan.bsky.social
NOAA returns/produces so much more money to the American economy than it costs, no stories about any of this should allow them the absolutely bullshit "savings" framing
We Are All Less Safe Today, as NOAA Gets Hit With Mass Firings
Splinter is your home for news and opinions that challenge power in our political and economic system that's becoming more unhinged each and every day.
www.splinter.com
March 1, 2025 at 11:25 PM
moonheart.bsky.social
True love is playing a whistle audio bc you can’t whistle to keep up with your boyfriend’s horse’s recall training
March 1, 2025 at 7:29 PM
moonheart.bsky.social
Wildfire is 320 days pregnant TODAY!! She is now free to foal at anytime after this date. She’s not giving anything close to imminent foaling signs, so she’ll probably cook it into March. 🫶
A portrait of Wildfire’s face and chest in the pasture facing right. She is a flaxen chestnut broodmare with straw-colored mane and a big blaze that is even visible in profile. She stares out at the other horses in pasture with ears forward and a soft expression.
February 26, 2025 at 7:02 PM
moonheart.bsky.social
You must pay the 🍓 tax to keep scrolling
Strawberry, a greying red (roan?), reaches over the bars of the fence to pilfer what she believes to be food, but I was in fact empty-handed. She has a big blaze that covers her entire snoot, ans demands to be booped with its appearance. All you can see really is her nose and lips, her right eye and cheek, and her big ears poking up from behind.
February 25, 2025 at 3:11 AM
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horselorax.bsky.social
Friendly reminder that my foster horse is available for adoption.

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🌟 Meet Hotshot - Your "first to the gate" companion 🌟 If you’re looking for a companion with a sharp mind, sensitive side, and SO much "try," Hotshot is your guy! Hotshot may not be the cuddliest of....
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February 23, 2025 at 8:57 PM
moonheart.bsky.social
Thought I would repost this bittersweet memorial piece I did for one of my very good friends of the colt they had that passed. It'll be three years since his passing, and I know he is still greatly missed.

#horseart #horseartist #equineartist #memorialart
A memorial piece of a black tobiano (paint) horse. He is depicted as a pegasus here with wings that match his fur pattern. He flies above a still lake, his furthest hoof almost touching the water's surface and casting a reflection of his legs below. The sunset is brilliant and sets the sky full of fiery orange and whimsical purple to be this beloved colt's backdrop. There is some nondescript land visible across the horizon.
February 21, 2025 at 11:13 PM
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lucaswaldron.bsky.social
NEW: A first-of-its-kind analysis by @propublica.org found that the sepsis rate in second-trimester pregnancy loss hospitalizations increased by more than 50% after Texas’ near-total abortion ban went into effect in September 2021.

www.propublica.org/article/texa...
A line chart depicts data from 2017 to 2023. The line is labeled "Sepsis rate". The line starts at 2.9% in 2017 and hovers around 3% through 2021. The line spikes up in 2022 and 2023, where it ends at 4.9%. The years 2022 -2023 are labeled "Years abortion was banned."
February 20, 2025 at 8:06 PM