Today is a very special version of DDOC. today is Lito’s birthday. As of about 7:30 AM, he is 4 years old.
It may be an overdose.
Take a scroll through the life and times of Lito through the last 4 years.
You are welcome!
I may or may not have a problem, but I make no apologies!
The day he was born:
He’s so handsome! I can’t wait to see how he fills out when he finishes growing! 🙂
LikeLiked by 1 person
Thanks!!! 😍 you and me both!!! It’ll take a while lol when he was 2 I was kinda worried lol so thin and lanky. Still narrow, but getting there! He grew vertically so quickly, nothing else had a chance to keep up haha
LikeLike
Yeah Copper took forever too. He was just 14.3 at 2 and matured around 16.2 and athletic looking. Haha I had big doubts though. 😉
LikeLiked by 1 person
Haha! Nice.
LikeLike
Oh my cuteness! I love these!
LikeLiked by 1 person
❤
LikeLike
So cute! And he grew into quite the handsome boy!
LikeLiked by 1 person
Thank you thank you!!! ❤
LikeLike
He went for a total cutie to a real looker. Love the barring on his legs!! And his eye is so soft and sweet.
LikeLiked by 1 person
❤ ❤ ❤
LikeLiked by 1 person
Well ,he is such a cool looking horse. Cute and now handsome. Tell me about the stripes on his legs. They are still evident on his hocks. This is new to me.
LikeLiked by 1 person
Thank you! Yes, his primitive markings are pretty pronounced. Depending on the angle, his barring/striping (has some colloquial names as many things do) on his fore legs is also very pronounced. Cheetah has them as well. Every dun has a dorsal stripe. The leg barring is usually there on all duns, but faint. Rare is the shoulder bar/stripe. Lito has them, Cheetah does not. Other rarer expressions of the primitive markings are: barring on the backs of the ears, on the neck, and along the dorsal stripe; cob-webbing on the forehead (basically faint stripes) (Lito had these as a baby…sometimes I can still see them). Color genetics are so cool.
LikeLiked by 1 person
Interesting. I did not know about this. Is there any research to connect horses to zebras? Or is the dun color showing these stripes a throw back to a prehistoric horse?
LikeLiked by 1 person
It’s a throwback
LikeLiked by 1 person