Posts Tagged ‘bad parent du jour’

We’re a rescue, no wait, we’re a BYB!

Wednesday, October 27th, 2010 | Tags: , , | Category: Uncategorized

Look, we’re a rescue! We have a 501(c)(3)!

The Equine Project

Really! We’re a rescue! Look, here is one of our rescue mares!

No, wait. Maybe we’re a backyard breeder who is going to whore out our “rescue” mares (including the one above) to make more low end Thoroughbreds that all of the other TB rescues in the Seattle area will get stuck trying to find homes for.

This particular faux rescue is run by a father-daughter team. I love the description of the bad parenting the daughter survived, right on their web site: “Sarah was born with a gift. By the time she was 3, David found her fearlessly standing underneath his stallions, cleaning their stalls with her pink wheelbarrow and little green shovel without a care in the world – and she hasn’t stopped loving and taking care of horses since. ” Yeah, the gift is she has a guardian angel making sure she did not get her head kicked in, and that sure as heck wasn’t you, you moron!

And things are no better now. Go look at their lesson page. Triple bareback and no helmets. That’s a pony ride and a pretty scary, high-risk one at that. Not a riding lesson!

Get a damn job, Sarah. That’s how you feed your horses over the winter. Not by creating more mouths to feed!

P.S. If your 20 year old mare even gets pregnant, she is not gonna produce the next Zenyatta. You are smokin’ crack if you think that.

P.P.S. How the hell does a horse teach small children how to survive in the wilderness??? What, does it teach them how to make a fire?

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Don’t judge a book by its web site!

Thursday, August 5th, 2010 | Tags: , , | Category: Uncategorized

People are always asking me how they can choose a reputable rescue to donate to and are sometimes not happy with the answer I provide: Choose a GFAS accredited rescue (of which there are only a handful) or choose a rescue near your home that you can visit and check up on regularly. (A great way of visiting and checking up is known as “volunteering” :) )
 
 

Well, folks aren’t always satisfied with that answer. They see pleas for help online constantly, and would like to believe that a nice web site is proof that a rescue is well-run and well-organized.
 

 
 

And here is her blog. Totally intelligent, coherent, sensible. Who wouldn’t agree with what she has to say?
 
 

I mean, Kristin Chambers can spell and everything. She sounds totally together. OK, she IS a Parellisite, but there are many of those who take good care of their horses (many of them find it is the only thing they can do with their horses, who have learned how to avoid ever being ridden!)
 
 

Heck, Kristin has even been mentioned positively here on the blog. She’s the one who found Clever Allemont in the kill pen and helped him get to safety.
 

 

But yet…she slipped over the edge, as so many do, and is now up on animal cruelty (and child abuse) charges. And the only red flag online was the lack of updates. The blog stopped updating four months ago. The web site is mostly out of date for the past year. 
 
 

What is interesting is that I cannot find a single mention of this in the national news.  I found one tiny little blip in the local news. Fortunately for those of you looking to avoid funding hoarders, this blog is the news!
 

As per usual, Kristin’s hoarding was funded by many grants from the ABR board. People, again, can you just wise up? Local rescues. Or rescues with GFAS accreditation. That is where you send your money. Not to every “OMG THE TRUCK IS COMING!” screamer on the web.

P.S. Speaking of rescues biting the proverbial dust, yes, I have received Celeita Kramer’s “help me or I start shooting horses” e-mail from many of you. Honestly I am sick of giving that crazy-ass nut job any further publicity. If you don’t know who I am talking about, read this excellent blog entry detailing some of her issues here. I will feature Celeita again when she (a) gets arrested or (b) agrees to surrender ALL horses and get OUT of rescue. Not before.

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Your kid is way too cute to wind up with a head injury!

Monday, June 28th, 2010 | Tags: , | Category: Uncategorized

First of all, sorry I’ve been so inconsistent. I seem to have triple-scheduled my life for the remainder of the summer, so bear with me. :)

I’m kind of sad to have to put up today’s Bad Parent du Jour. I’m sad because I saw Mom ride in the Extreme Cowboy Race and was impressed with her horsemanship. However, just because you can do something doesn’t mean you can teach it, and this is like a How To Fail At Teaching A Child To Ride instructional video.

Holy Crap what a tolerant horse

Wylene, the kid is a damn noodle. She should not be cantering yet and you don’t even have a helmet on her. Were you SERIOUSLY trying to get her to jump that barrel in the first part of this? OMG. She’s ripping that poor horse’s face off in a pelham. He is a saint but yes, they can get sour even from a little kid riding like that (for those of you who think a kid can’t pull hard enough to piss off the horse – trust me, they can indeed). This is an accident waiting to happen, and not a pretty one.

Not everyone can teach. Please get a proper instructor before your kid has a very bad accident. Get the horse a massage and a 5 lb. bag of carrots – he deserves it!

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This is why I pick, pick, pick at the Bad Parents du Jour here.

Tuesday, June 1st, 2010 | Tags: | Category: Uncategorized

Just read this tale online:

“My dad had my 4 yr. old son and 2 yr. old daughter on a colt just walking them around. A Photographer spooked the colt, he blew up, little girl fell off the back end and she was fine. When my son went to fall off, my dad’s rope wound around his leg, so the colt would buck and when he came down, my son dangling upside down would hit him on his chest and front legs. This went on for what seemed like forever……..Dad finally got the colt to stop bucking and grabbed my son before he hit the colt again. If there was an accident to have, that was it because no one got hurt, but it was the worst experience of my life and seemed to drag on forever.”

This is why I pick SO HARD on people who put pictures up of their baby/toddler on a horse with no helmet and no stirrups that they can reach and no one even holding them in many cases.  I know everybody THINKS they can just throw the kids up there for a second, but this story is a classic example of what can happen.

If that’s YOUR video below, or you think it’s ok to do this “just for a minute,” please read that story again and ask yourself if you want to be that Mom or Dad.  No one enjoys visiting the emergency room, or worse. It really does take only a second for a horse to flip out, no matter how quiet you may think he is.  Older children and adults have (or should have) some idea of how to do a reasonably safe emergency dismount.  They can take defensive action, and they have a chance of being able to execute a one-rein stop or otherwise divert the horse and stay on.  A two year old?  A three year old?  They have NOTHING.  They cannot POSSIBLY stop a horse.  I am totally cool with three and up starting to learn to ride with helmets on their heads, boots on their feet and stirrups they can reach (yes, they do make saddles that small) – preferably safety stirrups – and with an experienced handler leading the horse at all times.  Just take those simple precautions – please.  Or take your pictures on the Merry Go Round!

NOT SAFE!  (also, the horse needs to gain 100 lbs. or so and what the hell is wrong with his penis???)


Here’s another. No helmet, no boots, can’t reach the stirrups and no one is holding her. At eighteen months! People, are you INSANE?

Oh, and just because it was there, look, it’s another moron riding their yearling. Ugh.


For those of you who like super cute bay Thoroughbred geldings, check out Prince Oliver at Mid Atlantic Horse Rescue!

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It’s time to geld the humans…

Thursday, March 11th, 2010 | Tags: | Category: Uncategorized

I know I’ve asked this before, but why do you have children when you aren’t going to make the slightest effort to ensure they live to adulthood? What is the point?

An alert reader sent me this Youtube video. I warn you, if you watch it, it depicts a child suffering an incident that could easily have ended her life. The person who posted the video states she was “fine” but I have no way of verifying that, obviously. And before you say it – yes I DID have the thought that they are attention whores and that I should not even feature it because it’s flat out disgusting all the way around and they don’t deserve any attention for it. But I decided to show it because someone may read this who thinks horses are like big stuffed animals and that there isn’t anything wrong with a little kid running around the horse pasture. And if posting this scares them into keeping their little kid out of the horse pasture, then it’s worth posting.
 

I am not sure which question I want answered more:

1. Where the hell were her parents?
2. Who the hell was the moron operating the camera?
 
(Yes, I am scared that it was either her sperm donor or egg donor operating the camera.  Very, very scared.)

I am not sure what relationship the person who posted this has to any of it — he posts a lot of videos, and does not seem to be a horseperson. I am guessing it was given to him by someone he knew, but that’s only a guess. He seems to know the outcome of the situation, which is why I say that. Anyway, In answer to HIS question:
Yes, the horse did it deliberately and no, he is not a bad horse. He is a horse who was being annoyed by a small and noisy thing. I doubt it registered on him that the small, noisy thing was a human. It seemed to him to be a small, noisy animal, and when it kept coming after him after he had told it very clearly in horse-ese that he did not wish to be disturbed, he smooshed it to make it stop. He didn’t stumble, and I don’t see that the other horse threatened him. He smooshed it to make it stop which was a perfectly normal reaction for a herd animal being attacked by a small, noisy animal that might be something like a dog that could bite him.

This is why we don’t let four year olds out in the pasture with the horses. I really shouldn’t have to be telling this to anyone with an IQ larger than their belt size, but clearly I have to.

Disgusting. Like I say, I’m only posting it in the hope that someone will see it and go, wow, it never occurred to me that could happen, I’ll keep my four year old out of the horse pasture from now on. Oh, and if you need any practice in reading horse body language – this is a valuable tutorial. I didn’t see that specifically coming, I figured he was going to double-barrel her, but I knew something was coming.

 

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