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Socks the Shetland Pony Loses Out in Paternity Battle
The Telegraph ^ | 16 Jun 2013 | Victoria Ward

Posted on 06/16/2013 4:27:34 PM PDT by nickcarraway

A moonwalking Shetland pony who became an internet sensation has lost a paternity battle after leaving his partner to seek out a new mate.

Five-year-old Socks was put out to stud with three mares next to a loch but abandoned them after taking a shine to another filly called Kimberley on the other side of the water.

After he swam out to meet her, Kimberley gave birth to a black colt called Scamp and hair samples were sent to a DNA laboratory to determine his paternity.

But the results have confirmed that Socks, who shot to fame in a mobile phone advert in which he danced to the Fleetwood Mac song Everywhere, is not the father.

And to add insult to injury, it has appeared that another stallion might have stolen his “ladies man” crown.

In a twist the ponies’ owner likened to an episode of the Jeremy Kyle show, Scamp’s father turned out to be Nuggett, who not only impregnated Kimberley but also appears to have had his wicked way with Felicity, one of Socks’s mares, who has since given birth to a colt named Scallywag.

Mari Williamson, who runs the 200-acre Benston stud farm on Shetland, said Socks had been unlucky in love. "Socks is a bit of a Casanova, but Nuggett has beaten him to it,” she said.

“He was quicker off the draw with Kimberley and with Felicity too. The other mare he was with may or may not be pregnant. We will have to wait and see.

(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Pets/Animals; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: bronies; mylittlepony; ponies; pony
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To: KC_Lion
I have invented a pony drink...

You take a can of sprite, then add 4-6 shots of apple pucker, then one apple flavored Kroger energy support shot (it is like the 5 hour energy only better).

I call it an: APPLE BUCK!


41 posted on 06/16/2013 9:19:42 PM PDT by GraceG
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To: EEGator
How did an article about a cute little Shetland pony stud get hijacked by all this pink goo-goo stuff?

Gack!

42 posted on 06/16/2013 9:55:36 PM PDT by EinNYC
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To: EinNYC

I don’t know what happened. I’m still in a daze.


43 posted on 06/16/2013 10:04:23 PM PDT by EEGator
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To: nickcarraway

Peyton Place with ponies. Whoda thunk it?


44 posted on 06/16/2013 10:35:25 PM PDT by Hetty_Fauxvert (FUBO, and the useful idiots you rode in on!)
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To: EinNYC; EEGator; GraceG

To Grace's Pony Drink Recipe I have only to say this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ssl1RxwMWNA


45 posted on 06/17/2013 5:29:42 AM PDT by KC_Lion (Build the America you want to live in at your address, and keep looking up.-Sarah Palin)
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To: EinNYC
Gack?

http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/events/gak

46 posted on 06/17/2013 5:40:45 AM PDT by CtBigPat (Free Republic - The grown-ups table of the internet.)
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To: CtBigPat

Main Entry: gack
Part of Speech: interj
Definition: an exclamation of disgust
Etymology: 1990; perhaps imitating vomiting
Usage: slang

Dictionary.com’s 21st Century LexiconMain Entry: gack
Part of Speech: n
Definition: the sound of a cat coughing up a hairball
Usage: slang

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47 posted on 06/17/2013 6:12:23 AM PDT by EinNYC
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To: CtBigPat

48 posted on 06/17/2013 6:58:23 AM PDT by KC_Lion (Build the America you want to live in at your address, and keep looking up.-Sarah Palin)
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To: EinNYC
This is as close as I could get.
49 posted on 06/17/2013 7:40:11 AM PDT by EEGator
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To: EEGator

That’s what I like about you, ‘Gator; always thinking of others :)


50 posted on 06/17/2013 8:51:57 AM PDT by EinNYC
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