In the words of Siri's dear friend Kat, "That pony ain't right."

 

And she's really not.

 

RHV Firefly is a Quarter Horse / Thoroughbred cross, and was the first horse to be rescued from a kill pen by Melanie and Mattie Kane of Rehoming Horses Victoria.

 

Bought by Siri's brother George Christie, who realised upon arriving home with Firefly what a ... unique horse he had purchased after she repeatedly broke into an empty aviary, kicked a hapless wombat over the paddock fence, jumped onto a six foot high concrete water tank to have nap, hunted ducks on the dam like a furry submarine, and got into a fight with a kangaroo that had unwisely jumped into her paddock. The kangaroo fared better than the wombat and Firefly required five layers of stitches to a defence wound from the kangaroo's claw to her chest.

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When Firefly was six years old George gave her to Siri as it was clear she was going to be too small for George to ride.

 

Siri got her started under saddle and gave her a full trick education, but felt she was just too strange in her temperament to be a show horse, so she found what she believed was a good home in a local rider and leased her to this woman. Unfortunately this person did not take good care of her, so when she abandoned her at an agistment property George and Siri took her back in.

 

Siri is now resigned to her fate as Firefly's human, and if pressed may admit she has become very fond of the exceptionally strange pony.

 

Surprisingly, Firefly took to performing like a duck to water (not one of the ducks she hunted on the Pakenham dam fortunately) and has formed an unexpected bond with her paddock mate the Black Swan, who does not generally like other horses.

 

Siri is often heard to say of Firefly, "I train her, I don't pretend to explain her."