Do you like real ponies?

[Rarity Paige Belle 1,854]

As much as I like FIM I find real ponies a bit creepy. Most of the time they just stand there looking blankly into space. And then all of a sudden they'll either try to take a bite out of you, or worse kick you where the sun don't shine!

[Neutrino 47]

Real ponies are just not the same. Anthropomorphic representations of personality seen in HUMANS can't be portrayed with real life animals. An additional problem is that they are expensive. Plus they s**t everywhere.

[Jokuc 8,174]

Real horses can be beautiful when you see them running and stuff like that, ponies, I don't know they can be kinda cute I guess?

 

I don't really care much about real horses to be honest

[jackleapp81 456]

The sad fact is, real ponies just aren't quite as interesting as the ponies in MLP: FiM. If you sat me down in front of a real pony, and said, "Look at it. Look how majestic it is.", I'd probably stare at it for a few minutes, lose interest, then quietly pull out my iPod and watch some episodes of the MLP tv show.

 

So, at the end of the day, it's not so much that I dislike real ponies, it's more about the fact that I just can't appreciate them or enjoy them, in the same sense as I can for the MLP ponies. They sing, they dance, they make funny faces. What does a real pony do? It just stands there. Eats hay. Maybe trots around for a bit. Not too interesting, if you ask me. 

[Sig Hoovestrong 838]

I would love to stand around all day look into blank space and do nothing, where do i sign up?

[~Silver Essence~ 2,625]

They are majestic, amazing, and very unique animals that I enjoy very much, and MLP helped me realize that again.

 

The manes, types, and abilities a horse can do amazes me like a horse that can dance!

[Malinter 3,064]

I like them, there reasonably intelligent creatures. I'f could afford a job where raising and breeding them was my job I could totally live with that XD

[Seaweed-Headed Dragon 359]

No not really. I only love cartoon ponies 

[Coffee 4,323]

I think their very cute 

[Fluttershutter 2,491]

On 2/25/2014 at 2:16 PM, Rarity Paige Belle said:

As much as I like FIM I find real ponies a bit creepy. Most of the time they just stand there looking blankly into space. And then all of a sudden they'll either try to take a bite out of you, or worse kick you where the sun don't shine!

I think you've been around some bad ponies. The few horses I've been around have been nice and let me pet them and ride them and they're always pretty or cute.

[HeavenSunset 1,867]

Im more interested in cartoon ponies than real ones

[Tropical Melody 6,298]

Interesting question, and suggests the O.P. hasn't had any close association with them. If you've got or had pets at all you'll know they each have their own personalities. Ponies are the same. (Or horses.) A long time ago when I was much younger I used to do a lot of horse riding, in fact when I was in 6th form at school it was an option for PE classes, so a small group of us went along to a local stables once a week, on a Friday. There were at least a dozen ponies and horses there, and all were as individual and different as chalk and cheese. A couple even had emotional hang-ups, usually caused by maltreatment (by humans) in the past. Some were docile, some could be naughty. Two I remember in particular, one was called Beauty (presumably from Black Beauty) who had an "attitude", because of maltreatment in the past (he had scars on him, causd by saddle sores etc.), so with him you had to kind of earn his trust. Once he was OK with it he'd do whatever you wanted. Then there was Ginger, 'cause that was his colour, in fact very like Applejack. Ginger liked to "test" new riders and had a repertoire of tricks to chuck you off. But if you stuck with him and kept coming back, he'd run out of ideas and then you were "accepted", and he was good as gold after that. Then there was Thumper, so-called because he tended to kick, apparently, altho he was 21 when I knew him and so getting a bit slow-witted. Then there was Tiny, because he was huge – his ears could touch the stable roof. Just a sample can't remember them all.

 

 

[Stone Cold Steve Jobs 22,441]

I last saw a pony when I was a child. I think it let me pet it. But I never really formed an opinion about them based on one interaction. I would like to learn to horseback ride one day. 

[Ixrec 86]

I went to horse riding summer camps several years in a row, until I started feeling weird about being older than everyone else who signed up and had kinda already learned all there was to be taught at such camps. I just liked being around horses that much. There was even one year where the horse I was paired with (Dakota) and myself became such unusually fast friends that the instructor commented on it, and my parents still have a small framed picture of me and Dakota.

 

 

...in retrospect, it's bizarre that it took me so long to try a pony cartoon about the magic of friendship.

(and no, I have no strong preference between real ponies and real horses, except that ponies are too small to ride)

Edited July 12, 2020 by Ixrec

[netcat 25]

I'm a city person so I rarely see real horses and ponies, but I love them. I used to ride and take care of the horses at the barn when I was outside the city with my family. :3

[Splashee 28,564]

Maybe a little. But I like colorful ones better! Much better

[Stardust 641]

They are cool but I don't have pony obsession like some ppl. Literally there are so many ppl who will talk on and on about them haha. Thats good I guess  I mean they are fun and cool but 

[Adorable Lovestar 243]

I adore real ponies, yes.

[Savy 5,079]

Yeah, I find real ponies absolutely adorable!

[Paleopony 703]

I love real life ponies! Not as much as cartoon ones though.

[Clawdeen 14,521]

Not really. Not much of a horse and pony person. 

[Dreambiscuit 9,875]

Um, sort of, from a distance. I like animals in general for the most part, but like all living things there are good ones and not-so-good ones. I used to care for a group of full-size and miniature horses, and they were fine when they were calm and peaceful. But when they were in a fractious mood they were a bunch of sh*ts. Granted, sometimes they were just playing around, like the one who used to grab a handkerchief out of my pocket and run off with it until I got tired of chasing her (usually once I told her, “Fine, keep it!” she’d come and drop it at my feet). But there was an escape artist who ALWAYS got out of his pen and kicked me when I tried to corral him back in. He never landed a really good kick, but there were a few glancing blows that kinda left a negative impression of the experience. As is always the case, I prefer to admire animals from a distance and not in an up close and personal way. So, ponies are fine, but I’d rather watch them on TV.

[Astralshy 26,877]

I like them. They are beautiful animals.

Still ponies are not my fav animal

[Northern Star 1,024]

We had a few.

All good things must come to an end and that's why its had.