Pony Friends/Pony care

Most activities you do will give hints and tips on the top screen of your DS as you do them. This section is no different. Pay attention to the tips given and follow the directions. Be sure to brush slow and with the hair. Complete each activity until you see sparkles. Watch your horse’s body signs. When done, check the Info Icon and look at the brush slider bar – it is best if it is all the way to the right, which means your horse is clean.

You usually start out the day riding your pony (trail task and a few trails) and then come back to the stable. Care for hooves and groom horse and then ride another few trails and care for hooves and groom horse again. Repeat this process until you want to stop or the horse is tired (frown face slider bar). Then bring your horse back to the stable and care for hooves, groom, and then wash, condition and treat any needs. The horse should be clean and tired now. Move the horse to the field and feed, treat any flu or stomach illness, and pet horse to raise friendship if needed.

You can ride a tired horse but it increases bad health slowly. It is better to have more than one horse if the first horse is always tired.

Resupply
If you are in washing mode and an item enlarges and dings, but is not colored in, then it means that you are out of that supply and need to go buy some. You can immediately go back to the stable icon and choose ride and go visit the store to buy that item. When you get back into the washing mode again it will begin where you left off but the dinging item should be colored in now providing that you bought the right supply. If items are colored but don’t ding and enlarge then it means that you do not need to perform that task this time. For example, if you go into washing mode with a brushed only horse then the shampoo will ding and then the conditioner will ding but the flybot will not ding unless your horse has flybot.

Body signs

 * Good: Horse turns head towards you, horse squints or closes eyes
 * Bad: Horse stomps, rears, shows teeth, flicks tail a lot, shakes head

Grooming
No equipment to buy.
 * Brush main body
 * Brush mane
 * Brush tail

Washing
Buy shampoo and conditioner daily for each horse. Buy flybot treatment for each horse as needed.
 * Shampoo your horse
 * Condition your horse
 * Flybot treat your horse

Hoof care
Buy hoof ointment if needed for each horse at store.
 * Brush mud off hoof
 * Pick rocks/stones off hoof
 * Treat any sores