A young toddler in Michigan won people over online with his adorable interaction with a group of horses grazing in a field.
We know how kids are with animals. They share a special bond. The baby pulls the dog’s tail and then laughs about it. Your three-year-old tries feeding the cat a cheese stick, and the cat actually goes for it.
Kids don’t have that filter yet where they get nervous around animals. They just go for it. And what gets me is how the animals respond.
A big dog will slow right down around a toddler. Gentle as anything. Nobody trained them to do that. God just built that into them, and honestly, it’s one of those things that still catches me off guard even though I’ve seen it a hundred times.
So this video. The little guy is standing at the fence in a tie-dye shirt, just yelling at these horses way off in the pasture. And they hear him.
All three of them start trotting down the hill toward the fence. One big brown horse leans over the rail, and the kid wasn’t expecting that. He stumbles back a step and falls right on the grass. But you know how toddlers are.
Up in half a second like it never happened. He stuck his little hands right through the fence to reach them.
And the horses, I mean, they were so careful with him. Dropped their heads down low, leaned in, didn’t make any fast moves. Just stayed with him.
The video wraps up with them standing there together, and it’s one of those clips where you just sit there smiling at your phone.
WATCH: Toddler and Horses Share an Adorable Moment
