Foxhunter wrote:
I heard a funny thing about orangutans once. It goes something like this -  if you leave a screwdriver in a gorilla's cage, he'll try to eat it, if you leave one in a chimp's cage, he'll bang on things with it, if you leave it in an orangutan's cage, he'll hide it until everyone's gone, then he'll unscrew the hinges of his door and escape!
Comet would be an orangutan. It generally goes like this:

* tie him up. brush him, etc. Lay brushes / hoof picks / jacket on boards of the tie area.
* he stands still like a little angel.
* go into shed, look for something
* he stands still like a little angel.
* run into house for something.
* come back and he's standing still like a little angel, only every single thing that was on the boards is somehow now on the ground.

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