A little index of fugly commentary
Aug 14 2007
I often see comments asking me to do X topic, which I’ve done before the person found the blog and started reading. So here’s a little index for reference!
Conformation critiques and horses who should not be bred: various breeds/general
Why this blog exists and some colored breed broodmares that shouldn’t be
Hideous stallions being sold by illiterate people
Appallingly conformed young stock (both stock breeds)
Young stock that make the appalling ones look like show quality
Generally fugly (and sometimes not so well cared for) young stock
Fugly horses I have owned or own
What $10,000 will buy you
What $1,000 will buy you
Like mother like son: All kinds of fugly
Seeing past condition to see conformation
Breed or color specific critiques
Sabino Thoroughbreds
Palomino Quarter Horse Stallions compared
Chocolate palominos compared
Cremellos compared
Bad legs on Quarter Horses
Rescue breeding mediocre quality TB mare to even more mediocre QH stud
More fugly spotted horses; fugliest spotted broodmare found so far
Good and bad Arabian broodmares
Good and bad Appaloosa broodmares
Good conformation holds up in the long run (Thoroughbred mares)
Auction report, and Paint geldings compared
Fugly Gypsy Vanner
Really fugly Sorraia Mustangs
Friesian Crosses: The good, the bad and the fugly
Shetland stallions: Some fugly, some ridiculous advertising, and a nice one
Appaloosa breeding stock compared
Colored mixed breed mules
Spots do not make everything better
Dr. Seuss parody – colored horses
Best guess: Appaloosa/Goat cross
Famous Kiger Mustang breeder – giving them away for free on the Internet
Specific conformation faults
Pigeon toes
Long and fugly horses for sale
Back issues and another broodmare that shouldn’t be
Back at the knee/calf kneed
General commentary on breeding
Reason v. emotion, or why some people can’t love their horse and yet accept it’s not breeding quality
Careless breeding keeps the killers in business, and why you can’t just give away a horse
Reader critiques
Grade mare with a million babies; reader critiques
Old TB mares compared with reader critiques
Silly made-up registries and bad examples of obscure breeds
The American Warmblood Society
The Blue Eyed Horse Association
Obscure horse breeds with bad conformation (German Riding Pony and Campolina)
Commentary on training (and its role in the “unwanted horse” problem)
Parelli Natural Horsemanship
Are there even trainers out there for some of these horses?
Genetic defects and possibly genetic defects
Ridiculous looking HYPP positive AQHA halter horses
Morons who breed horses with HYPP
DSLD
Advertising that makes you go WTF?
Ridiculous advertising: The vet certified he’s a stallion prospect!
Ridiculous advertising: Lying all over the horse like a damn couch
Ridiculous advertising: Sale photos that make me want to rescue the horse
Ridiculous advertising: Jackass threatening to send horse to the tiger park
Ridiculous advertising: Jackass willing to give horse free to a killer buyer
Ridiculous advertising: Badly spelled ads for badly conformed horses
Fugly horses jumping badly
Breeders behaving badly
Pregnant 2 year old fillies
Sport horse breeders selling 2009 foals, some out of Impressive bred mare not tested for HYPP
Starting horses too early; foals jumping
Horrifying ads from irresponsible breeders
Color breeder from Hell
Horse care topics
Correct weight in horses
Misc stuff and humor
Reader comments
Comments on copyright for people who would like to sue me
Bad Parenting #1
Bad Parenting #2
Really funny mini show pictures
Even funnier hunter/jumper barn web site
The FHOTD FAQ
An Auction Report
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WOW!! Thanks! You rock!
awesome!!!
Off topic but had to share… My girlfriend and I went riding in the desert last night around 7 PM. About half way through the ride we discovered 6 little kittens in the sagebrush by the side of the road. Poor little things came tumbling down the incline, running toward us mewing. I was afraid the horses would step on them, but they were careful and didn’t move at all! The kittens are very tame, maybe 6 weeks old, and were very thirsty and hungry. We gathered them up and my friend held them in her tshirt. We called her husband and he drove over and got them from us and took them home. Their teenage girls are taking care of them. We think they’re all going to make it.
PISSES ME OFF!! I sure would like to get my hands on the fucktard that dumped them in the desert! Bastard couldn’t even man up and take them to the animal shelter.
Oh, and somewhere in there my cell dropped out of my pocket and I discovered it missing when I got home. Shit! It was dark by then, so I got a flashlight and drove over to where we found the kittens. No phone. But I did find 2 MORE kittens that seemed a little older and no where near as tame as the first 6. I wasn’t able to catch them.
So I got up at the effing crack of dawn, saddled up my horse and retraced our ride last night. Good news is I found my cell phone. Yay! (Bad news is, since I found the cell, it will be a while before I get an iPhone.)
Three of us went back out there today to try and catch the last two kittens, but they were gone.
How can anyone be so heartless as to dump helpless kittens in the desert??! *bewildered*
>PISSES ME OFF!! I sure would like to get my hands on the fucktard that dumped them in the desert! <
I’d like to help you.
Again, this entire situation could have been prevented by SPAYING.
Did you forget to list the link in which you provided positive Natural Horsemanship counter-examples to balance out your little Parelli tirade? Or had you just not gotten to that yet? Maybe you were busy compiling equally horrifying photos of hunter/jumper and dressage riders (Rollkur, anyone?).
Anyway, this should get you started…
Non-traditional horsemanship at its best: http://hauteecole.ru/en/photogallery.php?id=71&gid=1
Traditional horsemanship at its worst:
http://www.hauteecole.ru/en/horse_revolution.php?sid=57&id=183
http://www.hauteecole.ru/en/horse_revolution.php?sid=57&id=475
I’ve had a post of bad jumping.
I can’t imagine how I would post a picture of good natural horsemanship, since that usually involves someone getting a horse to ride nicely without any carrot sticks, cow patterned barrels, or big green fluorescent balls. The good natural horsemanship practitioners – the people who listen to the horse’s body language, make it easy for the horse to do the right thing, and take time to bond with the horse before demanding performance, have been around forever. They don’t have any particular specific discipline, tack, or any other distinguishing features. You see what they are when you watch them school a horse. If I find a good youtube video of someone like this, that’s something I could post.
No problem–here’s two.
http://www.youtube.com/
watch?v=Ow2yDdRK_Zc
http://www.dailymotion.com/
delphineboonkens/video/x2j753_
montage-tigo-liberte
(Just remove spaces in hyperlinks)
I’ll be the first to say that the horse in the second video loses a lot of collection and impulsion when she switches from ground work to riding, but he’s obviously coming along.
Note the natural collection and cadence particularly of the horse in the first video. That is one of the hallmark goals of anyone correctly practicing the principles that characterize “Natural Horsemanship”–the encouragement and cultivation of the horse’s natural abilities.
What about all those andalusian & lusitano people who refuse to geld? I have a beautiful looking, beautiful moving andalusian GELDING. I get crap about it. Geesh. There are some really spectacular stallions out there. What is the point of one more? These same people are also becoming hooked on black and bay andalusians. And now its all about color
This has nothing to do with the original post, but is more inline with the “NH/Stupid People Tricks” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oAZocFmrB9U&mode=related&search=