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This Pony In Panties Ain't No Poser! (Ellensburg, WA) -- You can see some pretty strange things in Ellensburg.  Miniature horses are the first thing visitors notice as they pull up to the house of Cherry King and Jenny Calhoun, but the scene quickly gets even more bizarre.  Out across the yard comes "Fat Butt" the miniature goat, as chickens, macaws, dogs, and a host of other pets begin to stir.  The most unique of them all is Rosie, the two-foot tall miniature horse that has been trained to respond to 23 commands to help King, who is blind.  "At a crosswalk, if a car is coming, she'll block me.  There's nothing she can't do."  That's right, a guide horse for the blind--one of only two in the country, the other is in Pennsylvania.  Rosie goes everywhere--to the grocery store, the hospital, everywhere.  And they get strange looks at every turn.  Before going anywhere, Rosie is fitted with a harness, a blanket, and even specially designed horse panties---yes horse panties.  "She's potty-trained," says King "But as a precaution, she wears panties."  It's not just a diaper or shorts; the horse actually wears silky red panties with a thick lining and a hole for her tail.  Watching a 24-inch tall horse strut her stuff in red panties makes all of the other aspects of the story seem a little more run-of-the-mill.  After all, in a world where tiny horses wear panties...?  By the time Rosie climbs into the back of the Toyota Celica and heads into town, she's dolled up in full regalia, so it's no surprise when people slow down and heads turn when they see her climb out of the car in downtown Ellensburg.  The head spinning is no surprise to King.  The place where people are most shocked by Rosie is in restaurants, where the horse often sits under the table during meals, only to emerge when its time to go, startling patrons in nearby booths.  Like a guide dog, Rosie can legally go everywhere, so when Ellensburg residents see a tiny horse walking up and down the aisles of the local supermarket, check for panties.  It's probably just Rosie.


Sweet Rosie the Pony by Deda
(Tune: Sweet Rosie O'Grady, by Maude Nugent)

Deda's Comments: This has got to be the corniest entry I've ever offered, by a mile. I have two friends who are dependent on Seeing Eye dogs, and I wanted to mention something about what a love relationship it can be. It's hard to do that without getting schmaltzy.

Just around the corner in the town of Ellensburg
Resides the strangest household of which I have ever heard
There's Cherry King and Jenny Calhoun and all their stock and pets
They're the wildest, weirdest, strangest gang that we've encountered yet

CHORUS:
Sweet Rosie the Pony, she's his Seeing Eye.
It may sound like baloney, but no, this is no lie
When Cherry goes walking, just between you and me
He takes Sweet Rosie the Pony, 'cuz Rosie the Pony can see!

They have dogs and goats and chickens, and also the odd macaw
The little goat called Fat Butt is popular local draw
But Rosie is the favorite, she'd four-footed, two feet high
With her racy lacey panties and her tail, well, it's to die

CHORUS

When Cherry goes to town to buy his groceries and goods
Rosie walks him everywhere, just like a guide dog would
She takes him to the crosswalk and through traffic without harm
In spite of all the heads that turn, in amazement and alarm

CHORUS

They all ride in to town sometimes in the family's old sedan
Rosie sits in the back seat with the window for a fan
Well, Rosie she can read the signs like Wait and Stop and Go
Cherry and Jenny, they taught her all she knows

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With her blanket and her harness and her panties she's all dressed
While her love and heart and talent are hiding in her breast
Her home is like a circus, but everyone's her friend
And that's the house in Ellensburg, just around the bend.

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