It’s World Kindness Day! Even though Champy and Morris think that’s everyday. #unlikelyanimalfriends #worldkindnessday #bekind
Volume up ⬆️ Who’s the loudest eater? Champy or Dusty?
Check out the different eating styles, I always knew Dusty liked to savour his breakfast and take his time eating but when I compared maybe Champy eats like a pig 🐽 he doesn’t even come up for air 😂 head in his bucket 🪣 the whole time.
Champys also the messiest eater.
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It’s Cocos birthday today she’s 19.
She doesn’t like sharing her breakfast with anyone including chickens 🐓
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When you just need to be close to your buddy.
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Happy Halloween 🎃 Champy and Morris celebrate Halloween 👻 #unlikelyanimalfriends #Halloween
Morris trying to groom Champy but making a bigger mess 😹 Champys very accommodating lol
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Morris shows off his skilful balancing act with a bath whilst on horseback. He makes it look so easy but my other cat Winston has such terrible balance he falls over trying to clean himself on solid ground. If you’ve got cats do you think they could manage a bath on horseback or are they more like Winston?
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Pony Party! Champy celebrates his 12th birthday today! #unlikelyanimalfriends #ponyparty #funnyanimals #cutecats #horsesbirthday
And that’s how it’s done ✅
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Morris the hairdresser
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The verandah where they first met, notice Champy nudging Morris and trying to groom him, he did that for 3 days straight before Morris caved in and became his bestie, he suddenly decided to leap up onto his back and the rest is history. So Champy basically pestered him until they became friends lol and he wasn’t taking no for an answer.
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I got asked yesterday - When Morris first got on Champy did he jump up himself or did I put him up there? This story has been told many times over the years but here it is again - the short version- for those that don’t know.
I adopted Morris from a cat shelter and when I got him home I let him out onto my front verandah, it just so happened that Champy often hung around the verandah too. Morris was quite intimidated the first time he saw Champy, he’d never met a horse before and Champy being extra friendly decided soon as he saw Morris that they were going to be best friends. He walked straight over to Morris and stuck his head across the verandah as Morris started taking a few steps back, Morris wasn’t so sure of this friendship idea.
Each day I sat with Morris on the verandah and Champy would make a bee line over to say hello to him, he would try to groom him, play with his tail and just gaze at him. Slowly over a few days Morris got his confidence up, he realised Champy was always being friendly and on day three Morris just decided to jump on his back. He didn’t even hesitate, he just jumped straight on. Champy barely even blinked like it was the most normal thing. I was the only one shocked at the time, I hadn’t even ridden Champy at this point as he was still quite young.
I never captured it on video because it was the last thing I was expecting. I also thought I’d probably never see it again, I had no idea this was the beginning of such a strong friendship.
Over the years they’ve been featured on TV, newspapers, magazines and lots of digital content. If you do a google search for Champy and Morris you’ll find this story and much more info. National Geographic did a feature about 8 years ago that’s been shown all around the world that goes into detail about their first meeting and their friendship.
This video is from the first few months they were friends, and shows Morris jumping on from the verandah. Champy has grown so much since
One of the few videos I have of Morris riding bareback, he used to ride bareback a bit in the early years of their friendship but they both have very shiny coats and he was slipping off too easily and there is a no claws rule 🤣 Eventually he would only jump on if Champy was wearing his rug, so I’ve often got the question over the years of why Champy is always wearing a rug - Thats why. When Champy is wearing his rug and he turns quickly Morris can dig his claws into the rug to stay on and not upset Champy with a claw into his rump. They’ve both set their boundaries with each other it’s quite interesting to watch, once Morris was getting a bit too playful with his claws into the top of Champy’s tail and Champy simply just dropped his hip enough that Morris slid off. There’s been many moments like that I wish I was recording. I had a good laugh when I saw that incident and Morris has never tried it again as far as I know so lesson learnt. The only time I see the claws come out now is if Champy is pestering Morris to go for a ride and he’s not in the mood which is very rare but he lets him know to back off and Champy let’s out a high pitch screech like a mare in season 🤣 it’s the only time I’ve ever heard him make that sound.
If you’re watching this on a big enough screen you might be able to see a few kangaroos in the background and that’s also what Morris was watching.
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Morris’s tree climbing adventures, a few posts back I showed a picture of Morris in this tree and described how Champy waits for him, here’s the video I managed to find in the archives.
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Check out Dustys ears moving when he drinks 🤣
Thank you for your wonderful donations the horses all got their hooves trimmed on Monday 🙏 the farrier said they’re not as brittle as when he first started with them, it will still take many more months for them to fully recover after they got stuck in a huge amount of mud last year at a previous location. The whole hoof needs to fully grow out and can take 12 months. They’ve been in the new paddock now for about 8 months.
Petrol ⛽️ free lawn mowing service
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Bus needed refueling before the journey and Morris shows dismounting skills.
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Morris used to use Champy as a bit of a ladder 🪜 and would jump into trees from Champys back, it was so cute because Champy would wait for Morris to jump back down onto him.
Champy walks past the house here and Morris is looking to see if he can jump onto the roof, he decided not to but he had a good look 👀
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Body language and friendship- here is a great example.
Champy comes walking into the round yard and when he sees Morris his eyes light up and if you watch carefully his whole body language changes, it’s subtle but you can really see it if you watch a few times. Morris is obviously happy to see him and shows it with a few smooches and Champy drops his head to be at the same height as Morris. Right toward the end you can’t see it clearly because I’m on the wrong side but when Morris moves closer to his eye he’s actually playing with Champys long eyelashes which was a favourite hobby of his.
Champy dropping his head to be at the same height of Morris was a really common thing he did and such a sweet gesture of friendship. So much affection between these two. What’s your favourite part of this video?
The Dodo featured Champy and Morris a few years ago, this is a little part of it. The whole clip can be viewed on YouTube if you search for ‘The Dodo Champy and Morris’ it’s got 1.4M views so far. We also have a lot of other videos on YouTube if you search for their names. Happy viewing!
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Champy getting a drink and he thought it was a great way to clean the breakfast off his face.
I might need a waterproof phone 😆
Another hot day 🥵
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A scorcher of a day today forcast for 35 degrees that’s 95 for you Americans.
8am this morning I hosed Champy down, he loves water and I know they’re all missing their dam they used to swim in. Check out the steam rising from him.
They all got some chilled carrots 🥕 and bananas 🍌
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My Christmas wish is for Champy and Morris to be reunited.
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An old video- they were going hunting for presents 🎁
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Update on the housing crisis and Morris joined me for the video. Video went a bit longer than planned it’s hard to condense everything, thanks for watching!
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A quick update on my snake bite and Champy and Morris.
Volume up for all the bird singing 🎶 Morris is definitely missing his bird watching days on the back of Champy.
