A miniature horse and a Great Dane, who share more than just their home on a small farm in Texas, have become the firmest of friends. The unlikely pair, who are almost the same size and have matching marks, are so similar that people can’t tell them apart.
Great Dane puppy Skye, 1, and 12-year-old American miniature horse Hot Fudge Sundae are owned by Ilonka Margis and her husband, who stay on a couple of acres of land in the central Texas countryside with many animal residents.
“Others would probably consider it a small backyard farm; to us, they’re family members,” Ilonka, 40, told The Epoch Times.
Ilonka chronicles her daily life on the farm on Instagram, where Skye and Fudge are often the stars of the show.
However, when Skye first arrived—a perfectly timed replacement for the family’s beloved first Great Dane, Taz, who died at almost age 11 in May 2020—her nerves got the better of her.
“Skye was the tiniest little runt of the litter,” Ilonka recalled. “She was only a fraction of the size of her siblings and didn’t have the greatest chance at survival. But she thrived and moved in with us in December of 2020 when she was 9 weeks young.”
“The most common questions I get about them are ‘which one is the horse’ or ‘is that a really big dog or a really tiny horse,’” the animals’ owner Ilonka told.
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