I work directly across the line from a guy who told me a serious but hilarious story yesterday.I tried to keep a serious face when he was telling me the story, but I just couldn't keep it for long. The story is just too bizarre NOT to laugh.

His wife owns a horse. With her two young daughters she takes this horse to different shows across the state and shows this horse at competitions, so I assume that it's not a "riding" horse, it's a "lookin' at" horse.

His wife was a little upset from the previous day, it seems that the caretaker of the horse farm where they have the horse boarded at, had called her to inform her of a little problem. They all piled into the truck and drove to the horse farm where they were provided the details of the situation of what had happened.

There was an accident involving her horse.

The horse's tail is missing.

The ENTIRE horse's tail.

The caretaker begins to tell the story and that she had no idea what had happened...no one seems to know what had happened, it's all a mystery to them.They looked all over the property for it and no one can seem to locate the missing tail. They questioned her about how this sort of thing could have happened...did it get caught in a fence or barn door? if it did get accidentily ripped off, would the horse or other horses, eat the tail? Did it get burned off, or was it stolen by vandals?

They also talked to a veterinarian who examined the horse...he was also puzzled at what had happened. He had no answers either...but in the line of questioning they did find out that it isn't that uncommon for horses to be victims of vandals...he did say he has seen horses tails being cut and/or stolen before...he even said he had seen a horse spray painted one time. Vandalism. In the world of horse showing competition, this sort of thing happens from time to time and more frequently than you would imagine.

I guess all that was left was a bloody stump.

After hearing this story, and holding back my laughter, I, being always the smart ass, offered some advice to my co-worker. "You know if you head on down to the Farm Barn Feed & Supply store, I'm sure you could find a sort of 'Horse Tail Toupee' you could attach to your horse's ass" I said. It was meant only as a smart ass joke but apparantly I wasn't too far off...they actually HAVE these sort of things and they had talked about getting one. The cost for one of these "horse tail toupee's" was around two hundred dollars, and then you have to pay a veterinarian to weave the toupee onto the remaining horse tail...and then there was no guarantee that it would even look authentic.

They won't be able to show this horse in competition anymore, not until the tail grows back...thats if there is enough tail remaining for it to even grow back.

What's really funny is the guy who told me this story is balding, and when I told the other guys at work this story, we all started joking about how it was probably HIM who took the horses tail so he could make himself a wig.....

I know, I know......we are cruel, but holy cow....I haven't laughed that hard in a long time.....I know it's serious & I shouldn't be laughing at the misfortune and pain of a defenseless animal....

It's just so freaking bizarre that you HAVE to laugh.