My orphaned colt, Dharma Gita was more aware than most humans! I had him boarded one time at a stable where they let the water tanks turn to green sludge - so, of Course, I would dump, scrub and refill my colt's water!! (This was the reason sited for asking me to leave!) - One day, I dumped his water and was bent over scrubbing the tank when Gita kept nudging my bottom. I would "shoo" him awat but he kept coming back, each time being more forceful. Finally I stood up and said, "WHAT!". He walked to the water on the sand, looked at it, at me, at it, at me until I went over to see. There were tiny fish flopping on the sand!! I grabbed them all up and ran them to another horse's slimy water tank and plopped them in. Gita walked back over to his hay. It turns out, the owners had started putting the fish in the water troughs to eat mosquito larvae... while I was amazed that they did all sorts of things BESIDES clean the water tubs, I was much more amazed that my colt saw the little lives struggling on the ground and needed to let me know. And he wouldn't rest until they were all safely back in water.
