short eared mule

I used to have several jumping mules, every once in a while we would get a really good brushy horse that loved to go to the hounds with us, keep up the good work with that pony, you will never regret training him to dog hunt hogs and especially at night. I used to have those nightlite headlights that would attach to a cowboy hat, made the mistake once of taking a pony who had never been hunting at night with a headlight. I turned on the headlight not thinking and the light spooked him so bad he tossed me into a 10 foot tall cactus patch down around Freer. I never made the mistake of testing a horse or mule for being nightlite shy again, i thinking i pulled out thorns for 2 months. Same way with hunting hogs at night with horses and mules that had not been shot off of. I used to coon nd cat hunt off a lil 49 inch jumping mule, we could stand on the mule and shine the mesquite trees for cat fox or coon and he would let us shoot a tiny 22 short rife while doing this. One time we had a lot of extra people who brought horses and mules who were suposed to be jumpers and gun broke shy outfits. Anyways, I let someboby use my jumping mule due to there critter not wanting to jump at night, well he jumped and right away the rest followed him over the pulled down fence, they went up to the bobcat tree and shinned the cat, they asked me can i shoot the cat out, i hollared go ahead, big mistake, they had loaded a 44 mag carbine rife on this mule who had never had anything but 22 short shot off of him, I watched in horror as the flamethrower shot up at the cat in the tree, the headlight on my pard head seemed to be in oribt, it was, the mule was so spooked he tossed him and began running to the back of the 10,000 acre ranch we were hunting onlol I never let anybody ride him or shoot off of him again unless it was with a gun i had handed them and we awyas used a 22 short pistol or a lil 25 cablier auto handloaded job we got to shoot in the eye of a big boar if we had too. I love going hunting horseback or muleback espeically at night with dogs, nothing better than that for sure, good luck on your pony, i am sure he will be going your way soon!!!