"He stood there and did what I asked him. If you can have that sort of communication, all the big parades and the big accolades we've had as gendarme can't compare to that because that was when the chips were really down. I asked him to do something and he said, righto, I'll do that. And that's what he did."
via www.abc.net.au
For those of you who wonder how intelligent horses really are, click on the link to read this story of a retired police horse who saved the smaller animals in his pasture from the vicious fires in Victoria, Australia.
Several studies have shown that horses are capable of reasoning and problem solving (as anyone who's ever tried to keep an equine escape artist in his stall will testify). But even so, Paddy's something special.
