The OSU Update: I get a PONY!
Oct 23 2010
Well, not to keep but I will be putting some riding on her! Thanks to Falcon Ridge Equine Rescue for saving her and Strawberry Mountain Mustangs for picking her up and quarantining her. She is sweet, willing and has nice manners, but check out the feet she came with. This is from a university that has a farrier school on the grounds. WTF? (My original blog here if you missed it!)
Anyway, little spotty princess needs a name so I want to hear your ideas! She needs a registered name too, as I’ll be getting her Pinto papers. So tell me what you think her registered name should be and also her barn name, and Nicki and I will pick some fun ones out of your suggestions! UNLESS of course, you are the one who donated her and you have her papers, which would make me VERY happy. I’m sure she’s got them somewhere!
Now, as to our mystery horse thread…I want some updates. Did you guys find Ice Man? Are you getting him back? Any more mysteries solved? Again, the Mystery Horse Thread is permanently linked in the rest of the links on the right hand side, so feel free to keep using it.
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Registered Name: Gypsum Sunrise
Barn Name: Gypsy
The Gypsum Hills are a not well known but BEAUTIFUL part of Kansas. It’s breath-taking. Every morning you see the sunrise coming up over the hills, it’s just so pure & beautiful. I’ve always wanted to name a horse that, I just don’t have a mare, nor do I think I will ever be getting a mare.
Woohoo! First post! That never happens lol
Reg. name “Saved by Falcon’s Mountain” barn name “Ellie” just because she looks like an Ellie
“Cowboy Casanova”-Cassie OR Carrie (Underwood…)
“Stormy Skies”-Stormy
“Strawberry Fields Forever”-Berry
“Abracadabra”-Abby
“Mardis Gras Magic”-Martie or Magic
“Dance ‘Til Dawn”-Kind of like a tribute to Champ-Dancer or Dawn
Haha these are all really random ones…
i gots spotz
missy
My spot was saved
cherry
Digital spotz
Red Flecktarn ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flecktarn )
Flecks
Red n White hart
hart
China paint
china (hubby says the white spot looks like map of china)
Paint Esplosion
and
Nebula
Nebbie for short
I like China Doll instead of China Paint.
Ooooooooo she’s cute!
And my vote is for a name that plays off of the fact that she was rescued, but not super obviously.
Maybe something like Second Time Around?
Then you could call her Minute XD.
She actually doesn’t strike me as a Minute, though I have met a horse with that name :p
Maybe ‘Better Off’, Bettie for short? She looks like a Bettie to me.
The white spot DOES kind of look like China!
“China Doll”-Dolly or China
I always thought having a show name of “In the Nude” would be good for a sale horse. Everyone would come to see the naked person ride, and that means more people looking at the pony. LOL
“Next in the ring, ______ riding in the nude!”
Then you can give her a human barn name. She looks like an Emily to me.
Otherwise a cool show name could be “Earned My Spots”. I think that fits pretty well. Emily “goes” with that too.
I hope she does well in training and finds a great forever-home! She looks so sweet.
Hahaha!! I have a yearling colt named Thee Full Amante SA. Barn name – Monty. I SO can’t wait to show him simply because I really want to see if the class announcers can keep a straight face and not chuckle when they say it.
But…oooo….In The Nude….I just might have to see if that one will fly with the registry. THAT would be priceless!!!
i know a girl who gave her horse the show name “Chuck Norris”. I’m the only one who though “so-and-so riding Chuck Norris” being announced at the end of a class sounded wrong…
I have a friend with a tasteless sense of humor who named his jumper “The Short Bus.” So it would be, “So and so riding the short bus…”
Our trainer vetoed the idea when it came time to an actual show, though!
I suck at names, but she is utterly adorable.
Farrier school? I’d forgive it more if it looked like a student had, ahem, practiced on her. But it looks more like she was turned out on stones and not taken care of.
Off the Hook -
Liberated – Libby
Ransom Paid -
Diminished Responsibility (Minnie as a barn name)
I picked it because I’m about 90% certain this is what most of the people who are showcased on this blog would use as their defence in court. “‘ya see yer honour I’ve got whatcha’ call shit fer brains, so obviously I couldn’t know horses needed to be fed to survive!”
Some sort of strange tribute to the blog?
I like this one!!!
I’d call her Lucky Lady. I really liked the bay Arabian, she was cute. Hope she found a good home. And they were all spayed! I could go for that. Congrats on your new pony. Of course, the non-white parts are red!
Wonder if we will see any of the mares on Craigslist as Broodies! Do they tatoo a mark on the belly like they do the dogs and cats when they’re fixed?
You have a vet who tattoos?! Yay! Save ‘em from being opened up again by their new owners.
Unfortunately i am not that familiar with american horse names, which is why i have to leave it to experienced people.
Actually it was not my intention to make my first post like this. But please do some research before you post a name.
Red Flecktarn ( http://en.wikiphttp://fuglyblog.com/?p=2405#commentsedia.org/wiki/Flecktarn )
Flecks
Dear Wnnahrse, I really hope i don´t get on your bad side… but is it really necessary to choose a name with that historical background?
It should be a name full of new hope, love, joie de vivre …
RF- I am guessing you aren’t familiar with today’s modern military, many countries use flecktarn in their fatigues.
I didn’t go to the historical meaning in german history as you did but the literal meaning…
German: “spotted camouflage”; also known as Flecktarnmuster, Fleckentarn or simply Fleck) is a 3-, 4-, 5- or 6-colour disruptive camouflage pattern. The use of spots creates a “dithering” effect, which eliminates hard boundaries between the different colours in much the same way the squares in the newest digital camouflage patterns do.
“spotted camouflage”; use of spots creates a “dithering” effect -the literal meaning…
She obviously DID some research, she posted the Wikipedia link! It’s simply the name of a camoflage pattern. Kind of like “tweed” or “herringbone” are weave patterns in fabrics.
What a pretty girl! Hrm, names?
Pour Me A Pint Oh – for the obligatory pun name.
Raspberry Rhapsody
Although if she were mine I’d probably call her Rain. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9_p-nhZXLg
What about “Angel On My Side” for a registered name with “Angel” for a barn name??
Is there a reason the replies are centered? I think it’s harder to read. Just sayin’.
I like a lot of the suggested names. And she IS adorable.
She reminds me of my “Sissy” mare (APHA Sassy’s Sissy), who was born the day the Challenger blew up. Sissy’s mother rejected her and Sissy was bottle-fed. Very sweet little lap horse. I sold her to a family who promptly left the area without finishing paying for her. And the dad was a California Highway Patrol officer to boot!
I still have her papers though, and no doubt she’s long gone.
I sure do <3 those spots and I'm glad one of those paint/pinto mares landed in a good place!
Also, what about “An Angel Spotted Me” for a registered name with “Angel” [again] for a barn name?? Love the redheaded mares with their sassy personalities.
Sheza Keeper – Kip
My Lucky Day – Lucy
Keep em Guessing – Emma
Saved by Grace – Grace
Ima Painted Star – Star
Kinda Special – Shelly
Im Kind of A Big Deal – Ruby
Ode to Joy – Joy
Fateful Felicity – Felicity
Just a few to get you started
My favorite part of breeding horses is getting to choose names. Too bad the market doesn’t support us breeding more than 1 or 2 mares a year.
She looks like a Mint / Minty to me…
Peppermint Passion?
I am not in a creative mood today… that’s what 1 am does to ya!
I’ll think of more later (by the way, I must say… she looks very snooty in the first picture… like “Ha ha ha, I’ve got it goood, you fellas don’t know what you’re missing out on!” ) Very cute mare.
This really sounds to me like OSU is a joke of a school. Has anyone checked the water up there lately, cause it sure sounds like SOMEONE has to be drinking funny water! Those feet look like they were never done, and some student who had empathy for the horse’s situation ran her down the blacktop to try to do something about the feet!
there is a whole thread on COTH right now for cute/clever pony names. My favorite is Al Capony, but probably not for a mare. LOL.
I think I remember showing with Al Capony…was he from Chicago?
My fave pony name was Too Busy For Boys.
That is an awesome pony name. The best one I ever saw was Expensive Hobby, barn name was Pricey. Of course I have a fondness for Crumpet the Strumpet from Jilly Cooper’s earlier books.
My favourite pony name was Batteries Not Included! My coach came up with that forever ago, and I am not sure whether she used it, but she coached mostly Hunter/Jumper and some Eventing.
The brown spot right on the top of her barrel on the right side looks like a bell. If we can credit a gal with her rescue… “Saved by a Belle”…. Belle for short.
ooh, I have a Drama, and Chelsea has a Gossip- you should totally go with something along the “high-school mean girl clique” theme. I just can’t think of anything. Drama, Gossip, and…???
hahahaha but she’s so sweet she’d be the victim!
Who gets picked on?
Hmmm. So “Sassy” is out then? (Not like it matters- You’ll just call her Pony Baloney no matter what her name is! LOLOL)
BTW- You will have SO much fun working on that neck with all of the muscles on the BOTTOM and none on top!
I bet “round” isn’t in her vocabulary!
ROTFL you know me too well, I WILL call her Pony Baloney. All ponies are Pony Baloney. Also Pona-Roni.
And hey, I need the core workout of keeping the pony from grazing during rides.
Bob got me calling Biff “Biffaroni.” Don’t ask me where THAT came from, but it stuck…. *sigh*
You are joking, right?
Ponies are the same as horses. Heels on and give with your hands, and up comes the head. If they get persistent give them rein and a sharp tap on the backside and a growl at them.
I have this all the time, driving.
I teach my horses they do not graze with their bit in, I always have, but when they are right out there on the end of the shafts, sooner or later they are going to have a go!
Quick tap with the whip (that is what you have it for) and a sharp “Uh UH!!” and we are away again.
It is not rocket science…..
Of course I’m not going to let her, but exactly as you just described, it has been known to strengthen one’s midsection to keep your upper body in a position where they can’t snatch their head down in the first place. That was the point. Ponies do seem more likely than horses to try…they do love food and this girl is no exception from what I am hearing!
Heather. Frome Heathers, the original Mean Girl movie. (well, outside of Carrie… ooh! call her Carrie! LOL
I know it’s not very creative, but she looks like a Jenny to me.
You are making my college choices very difficult! I don’t really want to go there so much anymore… which is such a shame, they have a nice equestrian center….
Anybody have any ideas for applications? Any other horsey schools? Davis is still number one. OSU was my #2 (Corvallis) but now not as much…
Just any ideas that I should look into? They MUST have pasture boarding. I have a rescue who was abandoned in a box stall for 6 months, and cannot handle being left inside. OSU was one that I thought he would do okay with, because the stalls are very large and open and they are only in during the night. I was very happy with the setup they had there for the horses when I checked it out this summer.
Any ideas? Also, does anybody know if colleges will let me use him for an equestrian team? He is now a 7 year old TB, and my trainer has just started working us over jumps (I have been riding for 9 or so years, I am NOT a first time jumper)
I really dont want him to be just a pasture horse, and I would love to take him with me. Any ideas? we are from CA, so we are used to warmish weather haha. I have a lot of colleges in mind, but I just wanted to hear if anybody had anything to say!
Stephens College – Columbia, MO.
Smaller college, very nice, great horse facilities and horse group. My dad taught there for several years so I got to know the place pretty well.
I’m a Stephens alum. I would both agree and disagree with it being a nice place. If you’re a horse, it’s great. If you are a student, not so much.
A childhood friend of mine who went to Stephens (and whose parents both taught there so that is how we met) told me conditions had vastly improved since then (circa 1980-1985 as I recall). There was supposed to have been some major dorm renovations and remodeling of academic buildings.
I miss those days.
When did you go there? I have not been there since the 1980′s myself so am only able to go off of what my friend has told me. Ah…but those summers at Stephens Lake and conning students into letting me ride
When did the OSU horse center start doing all-day turnout? As long as I’d been there (including through last spring), if you wanted your horse out, you had to turn it out and bring it in.
” Strawberry Out of a Jam” for her registered name, or “Berry Close Call” – and ‘Dolly” for her barn name!
Spilled Milk for a reg name, or “Spotty Dotty Princess”, lol!
Bess or Heff (short for heifer) for a barn name – she looks like a Holstein!
A name I’ve always wanted to name a rescue pinto mare is Cinderella Story, and call her Ella for short=) some other suggestions are Kiss Mi Spotz aka Spotti, Amazing Grace aka Gracie, or maybe even Ima B aka Bee(named after my fave mare ever, Dee=
OH! I LOVE Cinderella Story! Perfect.
I was going to suggest Sugar And Spice, barn name Spicy, always liked that name for a chestnut pinto, But I like Ella better, WAY better!
Cinderella Story is a great name for another rescue! One of you will have to use that.
Just Cinderella is thoroughly TAKEN. The rescue in our barn is Cinderella/Ella. This girl looks like an Ella or Ellie, but that name is TAKEN
.
So no one else in the whole country may name their horse Cinderella or Ella, because it is TAKEN by this one rescue at her barn. TAKEN. SO go pick another name, because NO two horses may EVER have the same name.
Hideozygous? Nesty, for short?
I’m totally kidding!
she looks like a peanut, but I see that neck and think “may pull like a train”.
Loving some of the suggestions. I’d register Sheza Free But Nottasteak, barn name would be Pwneh.
I saw those feet, dropped my forehead into my hand and just started shaking my head thinking “WTF?” Not even the full phrase, literally W, T, and F.
As for a name, she looks like Rain from Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron. I suck at names (unless I have about four months, lol) so I’d just call her rain. Nice markings!
Considering where she came from, how about “Too Cool For School”.
LOVE IT! I think that is her show/reg name if it’s not already taken. I will go check it out on e-pinto.
That’s PERFECT. And then if people ask, her future owner can tell the story!
I like Too Cool For School a lot!!
My suggestion was going to be “Oh Shut Up” in honor of OSU
lol! Oh Shut Up is my favorite! It’d have taken me forever to think of it.
Too cool for school is awesome!
If that ones tanken something like : Cuttin(g) Class Again
Barn names: Fancy or Classy
I’d like to name either a horse or a cat rescue Fancy after the reba song.
I LOVE Too Cool for School!
Maybe you could call her Tootsie as a barn name – attitude plus sweetness.
Not a Ponaloney!
Because she isn’t going to be meat!
But I really like To Cool For School.
And those feet made my head hurt.
Fugs got me Swingin” with Swing as a barn name, hinting at the shape of her feet before and the fact that you are putting some miles on her.
“Spot Me Jumpin Bail” with Bail as a barn name, Explains itself.
“Late for my pedi” With either Pedi or Patty as a barn name.
Ok my creative genius is staring at a brick wall
Barn Name – Pebbles (The pictures of those horrific feet on pebbles…)
Reg Name – Too Cool For School, or Off The Hook (Can’t come up with anything original) Or The Cuteness
The sorrel pattern on her neck looks like some sort of bushy tailed animal, and her mane is part of the tail…
She’s just lovely. Lots of good suggestions so far.
For show:
All Around The World
Comin’ Home
Continental Divide (her spots look like a map)
Techtonic Splash
and for barn:
Connie
Katy
Luvvie
I thought perhaps since she came from Strawberry Mountain Mustangs and she’s a nice red sorrel color, why not Strawberries and Cream, then call her Berries. But Too Cool for School is very cute too! Then maybe her barn name could be Coola…? Not sure, really! I do like the idea of using Heather from the movie Heathers. I also like Leela, Lola or Lila–those names seem to fit her.
Best name I’ve ever come across was a Standardbred named Sharkbaitoohaha…I think we called him in for a pee test after his race just because we wanted to meet him
Owner was very nice, said his 4 year old named him.
Also, riffing on the “Too Cool for School” idea…that leads me to “Schools Out Forever” which means her barn name should be Alice!
I love it!
hahaha …love the Standardbred’s name…it’s a line from Finding Nemo (never mind that I can quote dang near every line from that movie) & I’m not at all surprised that a 4 yr old picked the name
I second Alice!
I love Rain for a stable name. Spirit is one of my fav movies and I always vowed if I had a skewbald mare I’d call her Rain, it’s such a pretty name
If she’s “Too Cool for School” shouldn’t her barn name be “Rizzo” (or any other Grease character, although Rizzo was my fave)
How about a registered name that would make having ‘Pony’ as a barn name seem legitimate?
Something like Pontiac, Ponderosa, Component, Poniard, or Postpone
Otherwise I really like the idea of “Cinderella Story”
Actually, you are mistaken regarding the farrier school. It is my understanding that the school is no longer there at OSU. It never was a part of OSU in the first place – I think it was ran by Lynn or Benton County Community College. They just held classes in some of the rooms off the indoor arena and used the OSU horses as their practical experience partners.
I went to OSU in the ’90s. Decent farriers in the area were not completely impossible to come by but the students with horses at the Horse Center did not use the students for their private farriers. (Bringing in outside farriers was not an issue.) At that time, the horse professor had a band of pony mares of his own that he taught with plus a small band of QH mares (owned by OSU) that he used in the horse production classes. The rest of the horses were used in the college riding classes, for the different riding teams and in a successful youth riding class program. Almost 100% of these horses were donated from various situations and were NOT from the production classes. (Those who took the marketing and young horse training classes generally had their own private horse or leased team horse, full course loads and were not really interested in working with a “trained by committee” POS QH after they got their grade. I know *I* wasn’t!)
Since I graduated, at last five different HC directors have come and gone. The person in charge generally puts their stamp on the program with what they find important and all the changes could not have been great on the program.The focus of the horses and riding disciplines went from dressage/hunter to western to who knows what, et cetra. I’m sure the classes offered are different from what I took and I heard that the kids riding program went down the toilet too. I do know that a couple of years (2?) ago, I saw an add in Flying Changes for QH/Warmblood or Warmblood crosses out of OSU mares and (donated?) semen for sale. These horses were significantly better quality animals and had been prepped and gone through the ISR/Oldenburg kuering processes.
I’m really hoping that the QH stallion that was there during my time was given a bit better life. His job in life was to eat, sleep, be turned out a little and be collected for the production class. I know he was broke but no one rode or worked him so he had no real job or energy outlet. He was periodically nasty. Since it wasn’t all the time, it was kind like that “rumor” that came to reality – he bit one of the girls working/living on the property on the shoulder and got her on the ground. And his body certainly didn’t have anything wonderful about it that it needed to be passed on either.
Of course, the pony stallion’s nick name was “Chester the Molester”… He’d run up to the poor collecting mare from three strides away, on his hind legs….
You are correct, the farrier school partnership went out the door with the last set of horse center management. The old QH stallion passed – he was never used for much else. The Oldenburg approved foals were from the vet school’s breeding program, not associated with the horse center – but that program got the ax too for lack of funds. I still can’t figure out which department dumped these mares…they were not a part of the horse center’s or vet school’s “on-location” herds for at least the last 5 years, but I suspect the vet school is more likely because of the topic of research that was done on them.
It’s not at all cute, but I think I’d be a literalist: “OSU Dumped Me,” or “Don’t Give Horses to OSU,” or maybe, “Ask Me About OSU’s Farrier School,” or “OSU Castoff,” or “OSU Auction Refugee.”
That way every time she wins, the jerks who neglected her feet and dumped her get shamed.
For a barn name, what about Piper? She just looks like a Piper.
“Off Menu Item”? w/ barn name of Minnie.
Actually…she hits me as a “Sonoran Sunrise” / Sunny
First time post, Yay! lol
Ok, you should call her Rockin Spots, then give her the barn name Roxy. I’m partial to this cause the last horse I “leased” was an amazingly fugly paint mare (but a pretty face) called Roxy. Despite the conformational defects (super downhill and splayed footed) she was a surprisingly cute mover and jumper.
To me she looks like an Annie.
The “Too Cool For School” name is clever because of her background!
Maybe for a barn name you call call her “Hooky.”
Well, I name all the model horses that I paint (well over 1000) and ive named my entire personal collection of model horses… so I plenty to choose from… Heres just a couple……
Misty – Misty Morning Sunshine
Angel – Angel in the Mist
Calla – Calla Lily
Petina – Painted Patina
Rain – Misty Morning Rain
Lily – Lily in the Clouds
Spirit – Sooth My Spirit
Libby – Liberty Dreams
Mira – Red Mirage
Dream – Daydream Queen
Misty – Mistic Heart
“2nt Hand Rose”
“Rosie” for short..
She is a real cutie pie.
Thinking about it for a few days, I am absolutely in love with the phrase ‘little spotty princess’… of course, that’s too long for a barn name, but it does shorten to ‘Lisp’.
I don’t have a good name..but I love a lot of them on here
Anyway, could someone please tell me (I know this is a stupid question) WHAT that tag means on her neck?
There’s a huge field of horses near me that all have tags like that, only white. I can’t finaly anything on google and I’m being a paranoid ninny.
It’s commonly used to identify horses when you have a big group and can’t possibly be expected to remember and use, like, their names. We did use them at 3 strikes because there were so many. They put them on broodmares a lot, on big breeding farms. I will say this, they’re safer in the field than halters because they do break.
And all of OSU’s research horses are required to wear them for positive identification so new student workers don’t mix them up in research records.
off topic, save the oldie!
http://dallas.craigslist.org/dal/grd/2022416443.html
I love creative excersizes. I know you’ve already picked a registered name, but I wanted to play.
Maybe someone else will like one of my ideas.
Liver Spots – Liv (This one’s not random. ^-^)
Professor Pennyfeather – Penny (Also not random, since she came from a university.)
Heavy Metal Lullaby – Lulu
Arcane Rune – Rue
Jolly Old Time – Jojo
Lucky Jinx – Jinny
Sacred Secret – Sarah
Dandy Damsel – Dana
Feed My Fetish – Trish (Not random!)
Ruff Tuff Cream Puff – Ruthie
Ratta Tat Tat – Tammy
I love “Too Cool for School”, I’d call her Tooky or Tooks for short. If it’s taken, you could go with the theme– Skippin’ School (Skip) or maybe Blue Collar Baby (Babe)
Bailed Out- any barn name
“Get out of jail free” (like in Monopoly)- barn name of Polly (or other)
Jail Bird-Birdy
Refuge-any barn name
Red White And Brave – Brave
Flying Colors – Colors
Splash Of Color – Splash
I really like “Whiskey” for her barn name, I’m not sure what you could come up with for a registered name though
Scotch on the Rocks.
Jennn With Three N’s- Jennn
Lady Archipelago- Lady, Jen
Sacred Heart- May, Jen
Cote du Rhone- Ronnie, Jen
Harmonious Undertones- Jen, Harmony
She looks like a Jen to me, good luck with her!
Lucky Spot
Lucky Strike
Good Luck Spot
Stars And Spots
Ink Spot
Paint Spot
Spotted Some Luck
Can’t help it, she needs to be called Spot — or Lucky.
Of course, my horses and dogs have always had a zillion nicknames each!
I rarely comment, but what the hell. Naming threads are always fun.
Chinacat Sunrise – ‘China’ or ‘China-Cat’, in remembrance of the world’s most snuggly calico cat. The original China had patches over her shoulder much like this mare’s, too.
Molly on the Shore – ‘Molly’. Simply because a mare with such an honest expression requires an honest name.
Serendipity – ‘Seren’. Her rescue was exactly that, a serendipitous happenstance.
Fame and Fortune – ‘Fame’. Fortune for her good fortune in being rescued, fame for the notoriety she’s received on this blog.
Starry Night – ‘Night’. Named after the Don McLean song of the same name. ‘With eyes that know the darkness in my soul…’ Fitting for a mare who’s been so carelessly tossed aside.
Absinthe – ‘Abby’ or ‘Abs’. No particular reasoning here, just a word that came to mind while staring at her picture.
Did you know “Too Cool For School” is a song by the band Fountains of Wayne? It was featured in the movie “Scary Movie”, lol. Maybe a barn name of Kool Kat?
here are the lyrics…..
He walks alone under the big city lights
He always knows just when the time is right
He never shows what he’s thinking he keeps it inside
Because he’s too cool for school
He comes alive oh, when the sun goes down
He gets it right you know he’s always down
He keeps one eye open and his ear to the ground
And he’s too cool for school
He’s an operator
he’s a real player
And if you mess with him
You know you’ll never win
He’s an instigator
Enemy eliminator
And when he knocks you better
You better let him in
He’s got his own way of getting things done
He’s always looking out for number one
Don’t try to beat him cause he’s already won
And he’s too cool for school
He’s an operator
he’s a real player
And if you mess with him
You know you’ll never win
He’s an instigator
Enemy eliminator
And when he knocks you better
You better let him in
He walks alone under the big city lights
He always knows just when the time is right
He never shows what he’s thinking he keeps it inside
Because he’s too cool for school
Because he’s too cool for school
Because he’s too cool for school
Cute mare, but this pony needs an upgrade. Check out the craigslist add, I think this is a first…using a dog shock collar on a shetland. This takes the cake for bad CL adds.
http://spokane.craigslist.org/grd/2023809784.html
I like calling my landlady’s pony by whatever he does alot of, i.e. he loves to trot everywhere he goes (even loose) so often call him Trotty McTrotterson, can get nudgy at times so then is Nudgy McNudgerson. He is also known as Junior Mint and Mr. Cutey-pants, but my fave is still trotty mctrotterson:)
ooh, just read through the rest of the blog and i like “Too Cool for School” too! Fun to name after personality but in this case that name is perfect:) And if she was a bit grouchy I think Rizzo would have been a perfect barn name, but she sounds too sweet…
I thought about that but Sandy is so….plain.
OMG! That is SO funny! I do the SAME THING! When my Basset Hound gets talkative, I call her Barky McBarkface…..lol!!!
Oh, my…I thought I was the only one that did that, too! My dog Bayley also answers to Little Miss McMuttersons, Miss Stinky McStinkertons, and others. Hubby thought it was funny until I absently started calling him Mr. Hubby McHubbersons!
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http://jackiekeithsoldmeahorse.blogspot.com/
http://www.horsetradertricks.com/index.html
They’re blogs that tell horror stories about newbies buying horses from traders. While I can certainly understand being upset about being sold a “lemon” horse, I still think it’s 90% the fault of the buyers for not preparing for horse ownership.
The Jackie Keith blog is about a lady who went to look at one of Jackie Keith’s horses, felt bad for it, and bought it. It turns out the horse wasn’t as gentle as he said it was, and now she’s bitching about it on craigslist every day. Everyone in the horse world in this area knows who he is… I knew about him before I had ever been to a horse auction. He buys from Round Mountain and occasionally Seguin, resells the good horses, and ships the bad ones to Mexico.
The Horse Trader Tricks website has a bunch of stories about people who bought horses from “horse traders” who “ripped them off.” One of the stories was about a lady who bought a horse for her grandkids (Craigslist Wars). They “rode him a few times for short periods, then they got really busy playing ball and he wasn’t ridden for a while. On September 1, six weeks after they’d brought Tony to their home, Rachel and John decided to saddle up and go for a ride… “As soon as John got in the saddle,†Rachel described, “Tony humped up, and when John went to turn him, Tony went ballistic, full rodeo style with his head down between his front legs and all four feet off the ground. After six or seven big bucks, John came off and hit an old metal gate laying against the barn.†Then the mean horse traders wouldn’t take the horse back, even though they had only bought the horse not even2 months before.
Another lady featured on that site (Molly’s First Horse) bought a 3 year old horse even though her “riding experience consisted of “loving to gallop as a teen†and a handful of rental horse fixes as an adult.” Imagine her surprise when “He would start trotting and because Molly wasn’t a very experienced rider, she fell off several times on the trail and took some pretty hard bumps.”
I just don’t understand how people can be so ignorant about something that they spend thousands of dollars on that they’re trusting their lives or their kids’ lives with. When I was looking at trucks, I saw one on the internet that looked really nice. The guy was asking $3,400 for it. I went to look at it, and it wasn’t nearly as nice as it was in the pictures. The bed was rusted through, the driver’s side door knob was missing, it had 65,000 more miles on it than he told me it did over the phone, and there were a couple of other things wrong with it that I couldn’t remember. I figured I’d still at least test drive it while I was there, so I told the guy I was interested in it and asked if I could drive it. He said no because it was raining. I asked if I could come back and test drive it when the rain stopped. He said no, because his insurance wouldn’t cover me.
I would have been an idiot to buy that truck. I wouldn’t buy a truck without test driving it or without having my mechanic look at it, so why do novice horse people think it’s ok to buy a horse just because the salesman said it’s a good horse? Of course they’re going to say it’s good, it’s their job to say it’s good so they can sell it and make money off of you. That’s why you get the help of a professional if you don’t know what the hell you’re doing.
>>I would have been an idiot to buy that truck. I wouldn’t buy a truck without test driving it or without having my mechanic look at it, so why do novice horse people think it’s ok to buy a horse just because the salesman said it’s a good horse? <<
No kidding. It's like the Guns & White Roses people. I would have more sympathy if you hadn't bought a horse you had to take out a loan to buy WITHOUT SPENDING $500 or LESS FOR A PLANE TICKET.
I've bought stuff I haven't seen but it was $500 or less out of a kill pen and I had no expectations other than: kill pen horse, anything could be wrong with it.
Would you mind explaining the Guns and White Roses story? I Googled as much as I could and didn’t much at all.
http://gunsandwhiteroses.blogspot.com/
Basically, they took out a loan to buy a very expensive reining prospect and she showed up with a swayback like you would not believe. I felt sorry for them BUT I really thought they should have flown out to see her before spending that much money.
Apparently, despite all the dramz, and let me tell you these people were having the Internet Shit Fit Heard Round The World, the filly turned out to be totally rideable and is now competing. Oh well, all’s well that ends well, I guess!
I agree, it is the responsibility of the buyers to educate themselves and be careful about what they buy.
But, if either of these websites helps people realize they need to execute caution when buying a horse, then I say it’s a good website.
Gosh, rsc, weren’t you just a little harsh in describing horsetradertricks.com? Did you read any of the other information on the site, or did you just read some of the stories? The site is trying to illustrate what can happen when novice equestrians buy horses from dishonest traders. The site suggests in numerous places that beginner riders should get expert help when buying a horse, and use a trainer if at all possible, to make the transition to horse ownership more successful.
As for the stories, Molly went to a boarding stable and asked the owner for advice. Her description of her experience with horses, which consisted of “loving to gallop as a teen†and a handful of rental horse fixes as an adult†should have clued the stable owner in; instead she sold Molly a 3 year-old horse. Yes, it was a disaster, but since Molly didn’t know much, she relied on the expertise of a “professional.”
Rachel and John bought a horse described as very, very broke by the seller. The sellers were lying; they knew nothing about the horse, yet they sold it as “family safe.”
I own 4 horses. Three of them are sweet, well-trained animals. If I don’t ride for several months, I can still go out to the pasture and hop on without fear of being dumped. They are steady and calm and I can’t imagine any of them going into a “rodeo buck,” no matter how long it’s been since I’ve ridden them.
Horsetradertricks.com does not advocate holding ethical sellers responsible for the stupid mistakes made by inexperienced horse buyers. It is a site designed to educate people about ways to avoid making stupid mistakes in the first place, for their own sakes as well as the horses they buy. If you felt the need to criticize the site, I wish you had taken the time to read a bit more before jumping to false conclusions.
since she came from a university how about “Spot The Graduate” or “College Miss”
This story does not surprise me at all, not even a little bit. I attended Oregon State in the early 2000s and purchased a DOG, yes a dog, through the surplus goods auction and also helped to buy SIX ponies through the same from the veterinary school. The ponies were originally obtained via auction, used for surgery classes and were then “disposed of” via surplus goods auction.
I wanted to comment about the mystery horse post. I didnt find her previous owner or anyone that knew her. But I did find out what breed she was. Thanks to a very nice lady who posted her website of her foundation morgan mare keepsake, who looked exactly like my Angell! After some more reasearch, I do believe my Angel is a morgan. Thanks again to her and you Fugs!
How about “Catch of the Day” and her barn name can be “Tuna”
In my experience, the various animal-related parts of a university are more likely to be completely autonomous than otherwise. Where I went to vet school, the farrier school worked hand in hand with the vet school, the research horses got medical care but frequently had teeth neglected (the research animal vets were trying to set up a program to have the students float them regularly for practice, which we certainly needed, but there was some hold-up; I assume their feet were no better), the animal science department had a reputation for avoiding the vets until something was dead on its feet (and then complaining that everything they sent to the vet school died), and the riding horse program and polo team did their own thing (I’m pretty sure they used outside vets, actually, and I heard a rumor from a local practitioner that the polo team was using an unlicensed dentist). The presence of a vet or farrier school on campus means nothing to the likelihood of any particular subset of animals actually getting care, because there is no university animal oversight office.
I was actually going to make a similar comment/point (and I suspect I may have gone to same school as you for my undergrad.) But I would like to expand on it. Different departments will have different attitudes towards animals, and often for political reasons, they often don’t work as well together as you would think. For instance, the animal science departments at both the schools I’ve attended have left a bad taste in my mouth. I’ve seen them as departments with the primary goal of making money off of animals, nothing more. Often it is head of the departments with old-school attitudes that animals are disposable money makers, and issues of animal care are not a concern unless it cuts into your profit. (Not to mention the attitude that Equine Programs as totally worthless because they don’t make as much money for the department as cows or sheep or pigs.) And while not all AS departments are like this, and certainly not all the professors or students (I’ve known many wonderful animal welfare advocates in animal science) it seems to be a trend. And calling the vet school to treat the animals ? “Well those a-holes will just lecture you if you call them over to repair the barb-wired wounds on your animals, and then go on about how the enclosures are far too small, and how access to water is important!”
I guess my point is A.) don’t donate your horse (or any animal), to a University unless you yourself think they are disposable – they may very well be to the university program. Also keep in mind that vet schools often perform potentially lethal procedures on these animals, and you will need to be comfortable with that. My friend donated his pet cow to a vet school, and a year later she died of complications related to an experimental surgery.
B.) try not to judge an entire University on the actions of some bad directors/department heads. (For instance, my University shouldn’t be conducting animal research AT ALL based off the behavior of the dean the the agriculture department. But that was only one program, and the animal care in my department is excellent. ) If your interested in attending a University, check out the particular program or department you are interested it. If it is an excellent program, but may have some animal welfare issues, consider attending with the goal of changing attitudes and practices from the inside. You will likely have many allies in such a pursuit!
Pangea!
My favs from above are “Too Cool for School” for the registered name and Rizzo for the barn name. For some reason I’m having trouble replying to the original post.
OT, but I ran across this article on FB and thought you’d want to check it out, Fugs. It might be a good topic since I’ve heard several stories of male instructors that have harassed girls during lessons.
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Sorry–I didn’t mean for the whole sentence to be linked like that, but at least the article is the right one!
I like “Skipping Class” ~ Lassie.
I don’t think you can top “Little Spotty Princess”! LSP, for short. Barn name: Spot.
After the song… Register her as ‘Don’t Need No Education’ and call her Pinky, or Floyd.
“Red Moon Rising” – nickname Moon or Rizzo
(like the song)
-Jen C.
ha. actually the song is Bad Moon Rising, but I like it to be “Red Moon Rising.” for her lovely color. She also has a bit of a crescent shape at the top of her blaze, like a rising moon.
Someone up there said Spotty Dotty Princess or something. I have a miniature appy gelding named “Spotty Dot Can-Do”, Spot for short (yeah I know, real original but he came with the name). I also have a gelding named “Southern Nobility”, Snob for short. How about “Nic Of Time”? Nikki for short.
I love Too Cool for School!
I also love the suggestions of Rizzo or Hooky as a barn name. Awesome
Where are you going to register her? Some of those registries seem so fly by night…
Registered Name: “Duck Fan” – as a slam to those darned OSU Beavers who neglected her
Barn Name: “Ducky”
Skippin SkoolGirl
Marchita- barn name (sounds like Markita)
Endless Summer
Charisma is a name that really jumps out at me – if I ever get a mare I would name her that.
Calamity Jane….I think that was a famous cowgirl or something…?
She’s a cutie!:)
I know this is kinda late, and totally off topic, but I’m working on a speech for my ffa public speaking event, and it’s on anti-horse slaughter, and I’m trying to find a source that has something on if slaughterhouse workers are paid by the hour or if they are paid according to how many horses they slaughter daily. If anyone here has any information on that, preferably with a source, I would be super grateful! I’m trying to educate other people in ffa about horse horse slaughter is not an option! thanks everybody:)
Forgotten Treasure
Treasure to her friends.
“going to slaughter this friday” didnt realize there was an operation in zillah
http://portland.craigslist.org/nco/grd/2025927577.html
I’m guessing this is the kill buyer that SOS Equines rescues from, and is spoken of here a lot on the blog. Someone in the know would have to confirm this, but I think his lot is just off of I-82 outside of Zillah. If it’s the place I’m thinking of I pass by it a lot on the trip between Yakima and the Tri-Cities.
Oh like near toppenish area? I guess that makes sense.. wasnt that Gary Seal Livestock or whomever?
Yes, I’m assuming that’s the lot. The “Gary Seal” part is painted over now but it really is one of the old landmarks, isn’t it?
Rebel’s Equine Feedlot Sales… horses have been exposed to strangles, the prices range between $600 and $1000 for feedlot horses, and the day rate for board of a ransomed horse is $50. The name to contact is Sam. Are CBER flavoured alarm bells going off for anyone else?
They’re also using “Phantom Meadows” as an alias these days. And yes, it is all coming from the same kill buyer.
SOS Equines is totally different and she does not do business with the feedlot in Zillah (except, as any of us would, if a horse we knew turned up there).
Those are some really nice horses,the bay specilly…
They seem to be as advertised,as the sorrel sure didn’t like the bit,but did work anyhow..
Hope someone can get them.
I know a good name. How about “I Belong On A Florida Farm”.
Abstract Art!
Missed the Bus. Busy for a barn name