LUCY: Hi, I'm Lucy.
This is Misty Meadow Farm in Kent.
Let me show you our ponies.
This is Olivia.
She's nine years old.
She's my best friend really.
She's really sweet.
But she's very quiet.
Olivia's favorite food is probably things
like carrots, apples.
But she is actually on a restricted diet.
She has a mask that she wears when she goes
out during the day.
Because she'll just pig.
INTERVIEWER: Why do you like Shetland ponies?
LUCY: Their size.
They're very cute, and they're very friendly.
Ah, she's with the dog.
Shetlands tend to be a very piggy breed of pony.
And we do things like jumping with her to help her basically
keep the weight off.
Good girl.
This is Olivia's passport.
All ponies basically have to have a passport which will
record any injections that they've ever had.
And also it will show their family tree, so that when you
buy them you know where they've come from, what their
background is.
Olivia's father is called Toy House Mousie
Prince John of Lancaster.
And her mother is called Copperfield's Betty Boop.
She's friends with a lot of ponies in her field.
She probably has a special mate that she hangs out with.
They tend to, like, have a best friend each.
This here is Julianne.
She's pretty much, I would say, one of the naughtiest
ones that we've got here.
And she's actually wearing a muzzle.
Because she's got a lot of weight on her at the moment.
And the best way to keep it off is to have this muzzle
thing on her.
But it's actually the first day she's worn it.
And she hates it.
We've had a bit of an issue with the fencing over there
which we've sort of had to put up a
makeshift sort of barricade.
Well basically we turned up one day and found that Olivia
and Julianne had got in there.
And they were scrumping away on all the apples.
Some Shetland ponies actually don't care
about electric fencing.
And they are happy to take the shock, basically, just to get
to the grass that's on the other side of the fence.
So the darker colored pony that's closest
to us at the moment--
she's called Tia.
And her little foal is called Morgan.
He's a boy.
He's only a week old.
And then the other one over there-- she's called Holly.
That's her daughter, who was also born last
week, called Hannah.
Yeah, they're so fluffy at this age--
fluffy and tiny.
INTERVIEWER: Would you say that you're quite
good friends now?
LUCY: Yeah, yeah, she is.
She's my little girl.
She's my little pony.
I love her.