Durango's first lesson in how to talk to a woman...

So, today, we decided to let Durango out with Aspen in a separate pen from the other bullies... I mean babies.  Since Durango still gets picked on to this day, and those babies have never seen Aspen before as she was previously in a different pasture... as well as her being the shrimp of the bunch since she is the only western pleasure bred baby... I was too nervous to let her out with the big guys just yet.  Poor thing could use some company though, so I figured Durango, being the pushover of the other group, would be the most amicable baby to be Aspen's new temporary pasture buddy.  We separate all the colts from the fillies once they turn physically one year old, which these two aren't quite yet.  Just long enough to get her warmed up to going out with new horses, and then she will go out with the big girls.

Well, it ended up being more monumental of an occasion than I had expected.  It went pretty much like this (please excuse the dirtball of a palomino filly, who is still wearing her faded winter woolies and loves to roll in the dirt to make us think she is turning grey, even though she isn't!) :

"Hi!  I'm Durango!"

"I have spots!  Wanna see them up close?"

"Wow, you sure are a cute blond girl..."

...of which, Durango decides the best course of action would be... biting her face.

Aspens "Oh no you DI'INT!" face.

The following is what I would like to sum up as the, Durango gets a taste of his own medicine sequence.

And the, "Maybe I could have approached that better..." face:

We were worried it would get to rough and we'd have to separate them, but we kept watch and fortunately they settled it over a good roll (Durango's a bit more subdued than Aspen's):

Both came out of the ordeal none the worse for wear, bright eyed, perky eared, and cute. :)

And thus concludes Durango's first encounter with the opposite sex.  Methinks he has a lot to learn over the next couple years. ;-)

Edited later to add... I just realized the irony of this post and his registered name.  Romance The Ladies, indeed.