[Coyote] (singing) My mini pony, my mini pony
I know you love it when I (laughing) brush your hair.
This is the strangest on location episode
we've ever filmed
(high pitch voice) Cassie!
Breakfast!
Come here Cassie!
(intro music)
What's going on Caddy Pack?
Today we're on location
at the Colorado Wolf and Wildlife Center
This past week
we had a chance to work with some frisky foxes.
I got up close with a coyote,
we even got into an enclosure to feed wolves.
But today, we're working with an animal of a different type.
[Mario] Ponies.
[Coyote] That's right.
And not just any ponies-
[Mario] Miniature Ponies.
[Coyote] We've been tasked with grooming
walking and...
[Mario] Feeding.
[Coyote] Which means that anything is possible.
Are you ready?
[Mario] GoPro's on.
[Coyote] Let's go find those ponies.
Mario how much time have you've spent working with ponies?
[Mario] Well not much, but the question is
are they ponies or miniature horses?
[Coyote] Well I think technically all ponies are horses
but not all horses are ponies.
And these are miniature ponies.
So they're my mini ponies.
Have you ever heard of My Little Ponies?
[Mario] Yeah, but uh that was a cartoon
that I did not watch when I was younger.
[Coyote] I actually watched My Little Ponies all the time,
because my sister loved it.
[Mario] Really? [Coyote] Yeah I've been feeling she's really
gonna enjoy this video.
There they are.
The ultimate reveal.
[Mario] All right.
[Coyote] There are the ponies.
[Mario] Which ones which?
[Coyote] Um I don't know.
Ones named Cassie one is named Dixie.
[Mario] Are you Pixie? Or Cassie? Which ones which?
[Coyote] No no, Dixie and Cassie, not Pixie
is that what you said?
[Mario] Dixie.
[Coyote] Dixie, yeah Dixie.
[Mario] Okay.
[Coyote] Okay, well the first thing we need to do
is just obviously is just enter the enclosure
with the ponies.
[Mario] Okay.
[Coyote] All right ponies we're coming in!
Good morning.
How are you?
[Mario] Earlier when we where working at the center
every time we went into a closure
we had to be really careful,
because working with wolves and dangerous animals.
Anything we have to worry about with these guys?
[Coyote] Um.
[Mario] Oh is that a bite?
[Coyote] No that's a kiss.
That's a pony kiss right there.
Okay so the first thing we should probably do
is groom the ponies. Right?
[Mario] Sure.
[Coyote] I feel like by grooming the ponies
we'll get them to warm up to us.
[Mario] Well-
[Coyote] - and from there,
we'll figure out if we can actually walk the ponies.
[Mario] Okay.
[Coyote] Sounds about right. [Mario] Can you ride a pony?
[Coyote] Uh I don't think you can ride a pony.
So how about this, you go ahead and groom first.
[Mario] Okay.
[Coyote] I will uh film you grooming the ponies.
Give me your camera.
[Mario] alright there you go
So this is a part of their daily routine?
[Coyote] it is now.
[Mario] Whoa is this a pony tail?
[Coyote] I think you have to braid it
for it to be a pony tail.
[Mario] Actually that's the pony tail right there.
How's that?
[coyote] All right Mario
doing a pretty good job grooming that pony.
[Mario] Mystery's still out.
Are they miniature horses or are they ponies?
Because I always thought that a pony was a baby horse
or something.
[Coyote] Na baby horse should be called a foal
and then a juvenile horse is a colt.
And these would be just straight up miniature ponies.
[Mario] Okay.
[Coyote] How about I hand over the camera to you.
[Mario] Okay. [Coyote] And I will groom the other pony.
[Mario] All right let's do it.
[Coyote] All right pony.
Good morning how are you?
[Mario] Oh.
That pony that pony doesn't like you Coyote.
[Coyote] I was going to do your hairdo.
[Mario] He's gone!
[Coyote] My pony has run away in the other direction.
All the way to the other side of the enclosure.
Which means I guess I better just follow the pony.
Oh pony!
(music)
[Mario] Is there any way to call in a pony?
[Coyote] I think so.
I think this is Cassie.
(high pitch voice) Cassie! Come here Cassie!
You know what ponies really like?
[Mario] What?
[Coyote] Carrots.
You know what I've got?
A pocket full of carrots.
(high pitch voice) Cassie! Breakfast! Come here Cassie!
[Mario] Why are you have such a high pitch voice right now?
[Coyote] Because ponies like it when you talk in high pitch
this is what I was told earlier today.
Apparently they uh like loud shrill noises.
So I'm going to do my best to speak pony.
(high pitch voice) Cassie! Here sweetie. I got some carrots.
[Mario] You kind of sound like your mom.
[Coyote] I do?
Let's see if we can get closer.
Pony your standing in your own poop.
Look what I've got, Carrots!
(High pitch voice) Come here pony! Look! Come here pony!
Good pony!
(sing song voice) My mini pony, my mini pony.
I do remember the theme song.
[Mario] What?
[Coyote] Look!
Pony's going to make me go right into the poop pile.
[Mario] Maybe toss, a carrot.
[Coyote] Ahhh the pony found the carrot.
Sometimes it takes a- a little bit of patience
to be a pony whisperer.
Look!
Carrots.
What a good pony.
There we go.
[Mario] He made contact.
[Coyote] Ohh
[Mario] Gaining the trust.
[Coyote] I'm feeding the pony.
You want a carrot?
There we go.Good pony.
Here, okay. Good pony.
Okay well, we got the feeding part down.
But I don't think this pony is going to let me groom it.
[Mario] No but,
slowly but surely I think your gaining it's trust.
There you go.
(Coyote talking to pony)
Nice little pat.
[Coyote] There you go.
Okay maybe if I do this, and give the piony a carrot,
and then I do the grooming, let's see.
Good girl.
[Mario] There we go.
[Coyote] Oh nope, I don't think
we're going to be putting any braids
into this ponies mane.
(upbeat music)
whoa got it.
All right, I'm going to go,
I'm going to go groom the other pony.
Let's see what happens.
[Mario] Okay, I'm going to give this one
another carrot real quick.
[Coyote] Okay.
[Mario] Here you go.
[Coyote] So, I couldn't groom Cassie,
but I'm going to come over here and groom Dixie.
Because Dixie seems to enjoy grooming much more
than Cassie does.
(upbeat music)
okay, now I have fed a pony and groomed a pony.
Next task is to walk a pony.
Come on pony.
[Mario] All right off you go.
[Coyote] (high pitch voice) come on.
[Mario] Giddy up.
[Coyote] Hmm I don't think this pony
is very interested in going for a walk.
(high pitch voice) Come on pony.
[Mario] Lure her with some carrots.
[Coyote] Carrots, good idea.
Pony, yeah she's definitely much more interested
in eating that grass. Isn't she?
Taking care of ponies,
is much more difficult than I thought it was going to be.
I thought we where going to go for a walk.
I though we where going for a walk.
Let's get some exercise, what do you say?
What do you think,
you just want to run around in the enclosure?
We can go this way.
Let's go.
There we go.
[Mario] Go go go go go
[Coyote] There we go!
All right we got the pony getting exercise
to about the edge of the snowline.
You don't like to walk in the snow?
No snow?
All right well I guess that's about as far as we'll go then.
Does that count as exercise for the pony?
[Mario] Not, not really.
[Coyote] No? This isn't exactly going according to plan,
is it?
Now I'm going to unhook you.
I'm going to count that
as your exercise for the day though. Okay?
You made it all about fifteen step.
[Mario] Here we go, here's a carrot for all your-
(- efforts)
effort.
[Coyote] I thought this was going to be easy.
Grooming, feeding, and walking ponies.
It's actually probably the most difficult thing
we done all week.
[Mario] I'd say your a little bit more of an expert
on ponies.
Since you watched a lot of My Pony Tales, or
My Little Ponies?
[Coyote] My- um yeah o yeah, My- that's the cartoon
this is my mini ponies.
[Mario] Hmm.
(upbeat music)
[Coyote] That's how you get them to exercise.
There you go.
Whoa!
Mario has figured out how to best exercise the ponies.
All it takes is a bag of carrots,
and you just have to run with it and the ponies follow you.
Run back over this way!
[Mario] (out of breath) Running with ponies.
It's hard work especially at this elevation.
[Coyote] Here comes Cassie.
Picking up the lead from behind.
You can do it girl! You got it!
Ponies, not exactly as fast as horses.
(upbeat music)
yeah you made it.
Good job. But unfortunately I don't have any carrots.
There goes Mario and Dixie.
(upbeat music) (horse walking)
[Mario] Whoo!
(upbeat music)
[Coyote] Your not quite as fast as Dixie.
Are you?
Yeah, your a pretty pony.
Well, today we where tasked
with taking care of the ponies.
We groomed the ponies, we fed the ponies.
And Mario even figured out
how to exercise the ponies.
All you need to do is run, with a bag full of carrots.
I'm Coyote Peterson-
[Mario] I'm Mario Aldecoa.
[Coyote] Be brave!
[Mario] Stay wild!
[Coyote] We'll see you on the next location.
[Mario] Carrots! Carrots! Come on, carrots!
Get your carrots!
Whooo!
Yee- Haw!
(music fades)
[Coyote] There we go!
Nice black and white coat too.
What a pretty pony!
My mini pony.
(singingy) My mini pony,
my mini pony, I know you love it when I (laughing)
brush your hair.
(Mario laughing)
This is the strangest on location episode
we've ever filmed.
[Mario] I'm just going to lie down here actually.
Get some sun.
[Coyote] This is one (Mario grunting) very happy pony.
Don't get stepped on.
(upbeat music)
[Mario] That was close.
[Coyote] Hi pony!
If you happen to find yourself in Divide, Colorado,
and your looking for an up close encounter
with some of our planets' beautiful predators,
make sure to swing by
the Colorado Wolf And Wildlife Center.
Or if you happen to find yourself in Divide, Colorado,
and your looking for up close encounter
with some of our planets' grumpiest mini ponies,
they will be there waiting for you.
And make sure to bring a bag of mini carrots
as an offering,
because nothing goes better with mini ponies,
than mini carrots.
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(animal noises)