Friesian horse Mariska has the Houdini touch

Her advert is Mariska, but her owners may last tempted to rename her Houdini.

Mariska makes adept her escape.

Mariska, a Friesian mare, has developed a rare talent that allows her to escape from her stables. Not content to costless exclusively herself, she is to a greater extent than than happy to boundary free a mate or two.

Mariska is a happy resident of Misty Meadows Farm, inwards Midland, Michigan, run yesteryear Sandy Donem as well as her husband, Don.

She shares the farm amongst iii other Friesians, 2 cats, half dozen chickens, as well as at that topographic point is give-and-take that a Friesian foal is on its way.

Writing on her website, Sandy says the video has been viewed inwards 167 countries since going online, as well as she has enjoyed reading the many comments close Mariska’s escape skills.

She said viewers had asked questions close the video, including the mystery roughly why Mariska, after escaping her stall, wandered yesteryear the occupied stall side yesteryear side to her earlier releasing the Equus caballus from the side yesteryear side stall.

“The pose out i enquiry is why does she non allow the Equus caballus inwards the offset stall out?

“Well, I can’t last sure, but I mean value it was because it was Trienke inwards that stall. Trienke is her woman raise as well as the boss mare. She likely did non mean value she could shoo Trienke out of her stall to learn to the stall window on the within of the barn. So she moves on looking for the best escape route. Why did she allow Wietse out on her way? Your approximate is equally adept equally mine, she likes the companionship inwards the grain room as well as later on out on the lawn is our best guess.”

She said they did non learn Mariska to unlatch her stables.

“Why would we? … It makes life such a challenge for us. Especially equally nosotros convey exclusively to forget only i of the backup latches or chains as well as she finds the weak link! She checks constantly for a means out.

“Mariska has picked this upward on her ain over a stream of time. She started equally a six-month-old, grabbing the tabs on our zippers as well as zipping them upward as well as down, went to constantly pulling out my pilus ties as well as trying to consume them, fifty-fifty grabbed the jingle bell off the antlers I was trying to learn pictures of her in, as well as ate it. That was an embarrassing telephone telephone to the vet!

“Next she went to pushing as well as or pulling all the paddock gates opened upward or closed.”

So how practise the Donems decease on her in?

“Well, equally yous could come across inwards the video, nosotros convey added bottom latches to the exterior of the one-half stall. And nosotros drilled holes into the bar on the within stall doors where nosotros pose a pivot inwards the bar that volition non allow the bar to heighten up.”

That plant fine, unless they forget to role i of the backups. Then, the corking Houdini Equus caballus shows her skills …

 

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