Meet Jess, one of the Ballarat region's oldest horses. Video by Gabrielle Hodson
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00:00 [Teddy Bear biscuits being eaten]
00:20 So tell us a bit about the teddy bear biscuits. Why is she going straight for them?
00:24 So they're actually her favourite treat. She comes up to our front door of a night time
00:29 and knocks at the door and asking for a biscuit before bed.
00:32 She taps on the door?
00:33 She does, yeah. She walks up onto the patio and - don't eat the candles!
00:36 Walks up onto the patio and asks - there goes a candle, hang on.
00:40 Uh oh.
00:41 That's alright.
00:42 Yeah, she knocks on the door and asks - oh, holy!
00:47 Well it's only been a thing that she's really told me about the past maybe six months.
00:53 It used to be cinnamon sugar on toast, so now it's - yeah, the teddy bears - I think it's the age, you know.
00:58 She does actually eat grass though, and all those normal things.
01:01 Yeah, of course she eats grass. She gets hard fed of a night time and her grain, but she likes a good treat, that's for sure.
01:08 Yeah, she's actually branded, so with the branding it does sort of assist with the ageing of a horse and their dental as well.
01:17 It does get a little bit difficult for a horse dentist to verify it once they get beyond a certain age,
01:22 but her branding does actually confirm - she's very fluffy at the moment though, so it's a bit hard to sort of see it.
01:28 So this is her winter coat?
01:29 This is her winter coat, which we're going to be shedding in the next sort of probably eight weeks I'd say,
01:34 which is a lot of brushing.
01:36 Come on, great cat.
01:38 So look, she is very, very active. I think it is because the herd that she's based in,
01:42 so they're still quite active and they run around and they're still quite fit.
01:46 So I think with Jess, she bounced off that and she's sort of found her second lease on life with the job that she does working with the children.
01:54 So a bit of a young soul still at heart.
01:58 Do you know what this is?
02:01 I don't want...
02:02 No, look, she's trying to eat the carrot.
02:04 She's not a normal horse.
02:05 There we go.
02:09 Oh, oh!
02:10 It takes that.
02:11 It takes that.
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