Posts Tagged ‘funny stuff’
Let’s hear about the naughty horses and ponies of your youth!
(And to this day, I know exactly how to deal with horses who root!)
Another cutie from Mid-Atlantic Horse Rescue! Check out Dubai if you’re looking for a young prospect and are near Maryland.
Government and animals – not the best combo!
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Truffles, now renamed Mya, got adopted, and yesterday she was Champion at her jumper show!How awesome is that? Â
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How you know that you have chosen the right discipline for your horse!
Now this is a horse who LOVES what he does!
You know, this is something I think about a lot. I really don’t want to start a big discipline war here, but I genuinely feel that there are disciplines horses LOVE and disciplines horses TOLERATE. It’s like the difference between the job that you do to make good money and the job you love so much that you’d do it on a volunteer basis. I’m not saying it’s cruel to make a horse do one of the “tolerate” disciplines, it’s not, but I can’t imagine that a horse ever enjoys something like western pleasure or dressage the same way they enjoy, say, foxhunting or cutting or team penning. And I say that as someone who has a western pleasure horse! But I admit I think of it as “something he has to do to earn a living” (aka the right to breed) and we just have to get it “over with” and then we’re gonna spend the next twenty years doing fun stuff, aka fun shows with games, team sorting, jumping little wimpy jumps, bombing around bareback, etc.
It is entirely possible that some of this is me projecting my own feelings about the comparative fun levels of these activities, LOL! So I ask YOU the question…what do YOU think horses truly enjoy doing? What does your horse love to do as opposed to things your horse tolerates because they are well trained and you are asking for it nicely?
For those of you who think you are going to make money breeding horses!
Truer words have never been spoken than this hilarious but ACCURATE article on the Chronicle of the Horse site:
Read it and get a good laugh – and then I want to ask a serious question:
Who here has actually made money on the sale of a horse they bred, after HONESTLY subtracting the care of the mare throughout the pregnancy, vet and farrier for mare and foal, and then all of the expenses you put into the foal from birth through the day someone actually put a check in your hand for it? This includes feed, deworming, vet, farrier, training, showing, etc. Usually people say “well, I enjoyed doing those things/was going to pay for them anyway, so it’s ok.” I know, but if you were really looking at breeding as a business with a goal of actually turning a profit – who here has done it?
We all know that nobody makes money breeding foals that sell for $1000, $1500 or less. But how many even make money on the ones that sell for good money?
I think most horse businesses survive thanks to offering training and associated services – not breeding. What do you think? Here’s a good opportunity to send a wake up call to the young and enthusiastic about the myth of “making money breeding horses” — share your stories!
On a SUPER happy note, we finally (competely) identified Hercules! Here is his USEF listing:Horse Name: GET SHORTY (4082241)Breed: THOROUGHBRED
Sire Name: SLEW THE BRIDE
Dam Name: FLOATING ALONG
WENDY JONES
WA
Owner Point States:
State Start Date End Date
WA 08/09/06 11/30/06
Date Range: 12/1/2005 – 11/30/2010
NO RESULTS FOR THIS HORSE
There isn’t any “Get Shorty” with JC so I wonder if he has a different name? Anybody got time to do some research about Floating Along’s foals today?  I believe he is a 1991.
Paranoid Pet and Horse Owners, Unite!
I’m working on another bigger story but I had to put this up because I just know I will hear a lot of similar stories from my readers!
Last night, while wandering around the house on a phone call, I walked into my bedroom and a pillow was knocked onto the floor and soaked in a reddish liquid. Â OMG. Â I examined it and removed the pillowcase and started looking around — surely someone was puking blood and needed to go to the emergency vet immediately.
I scoured the house and checked every single cat and the dog for any sign that weren’t in tip-top condition.  I felt their chins, I smelled their breath.  They all seemed fine…but what if they weren’t?  OMG.  What would make a cat puke blood?  I was about to go to google and try to find out when I walked back into the bedroom to find the shy kitty that lives in the closet…and discovered what had thrown up on my pillow.
A can of cherry Diet Dr. Pepper that some naughty cat had overturned on the dresser.
HMPH!
These animals will give you heart failure, won’t they? Â I remember another time when I was positive a kitten had gotten out and was lost — only to find her inside the kitchen cabinet. Â Note to new cat owners: Â they can and do open cabinet doors!
So, I know I am not the only one. Â Share your stories of a time when you were sure some animal had gotten very sick or very hurt or gotten out and were freaking out, only to discover everything was fine after all!
