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Posted on 06/19/2006 8:46:45 AM PDT by HairOfTheDog
This is a horse chat thread where we share ideas, ask for input from other horsemen, and talk about our riding and horse-keeping. We have a lot of different kinds of riders and horses, and a lot to share. In the previous threads we have had a great time talking through lessons, training, horse lamenesses, illnesses and pregnancies... and always sharing pictures and stories.
I always have a link to this thread on my profile page, so if you have something to say and can't find the thread in latest posts… look for it there and wake the thread up!
I also have a ping list for horse threads that are of interest, and MissTargets will now be pinging everyone most mornings. Let MissTargets and/or me know if you would like to be on the ping list. As FreeRepublic is a political site, our politics and other issues will probably blend in…. There are many issues for horsemen that touch politics… land use, animal rights/abuse cases that make the news…. Legislation that might affect horse owners.
So... like the previous threads, this is intended as fun place to come and share stories, pictures, questions and chit-chat, unguided and unmoderated and that we come together here as friends. There are lots of ways of doing things and we all have our quirks, tricks and specialties that are neat to learn about.
Previous threads:
The FreeRepublic Saddle Club thread - thread ONE
The FreeRepublic Saddle Club thread - Thread TWO!
The FreeRepublic Saddle Club thread - Thread THREE!
The FreeRepublic Saddle Club thread! - Thread FOUR
The FreeRepublic Saddle Club thread! - Thread FIVE
The FreeRepublic Saddle Club thread! - Thread SIX
The FreeRepublic Saddle Club thread! - Thread SEVEN
The FreeRepublic Saddle Club thread! - Thread EIGHT
The FreeRepublic Saddle Club thread! - Thread NINE
New folk and occasional posters, jump right in and introduce yourselves, tell us about your horses, and post pictures if you've got them!
That's really cool.
Hey. Yeah, I couldn't find our weather bane. I played with it last night. FR mail.
I've ridden an old QH mare aged 29 or 30 or so, and sometimes she gets it in her to act like a 2 year old, and either royally misbehave under saddle and decide that everything is out to kill her, or go tearing around the pasture turning on the afterburners with the rest of the mares. Usually after she does that her back is sore for a couple of days because she acts like a bronc. :-)
That's it. Cindy, Okie and Sarah Lee .
She has all the young horses running for cover when she does her Queen of the Night act . . . she shrieks and bucks and rears up on her hind legs and chases them around with her neck weaving like a snake.
If you walk into the pasture while she's doing all this, she comes back down to earth and minces towards you as prim as a debutante, "What? Did you want to speak to me?"
Believe me, yes three dogs can be a hand full.
One can be a handful. I haven't felt good today or done much. I'm trying to straighten the kitchen. I hate the "what did you do today?":')Instead of explaining, I think today I'll just say "nothing.I sat on my $%^ all day".
7/30
08/01
08/08 
Isn't it amazing what some food and hoof care will do for a critter?
Thread here: Does it get much worse?
Poor baby. I've never seen anything like that.
The only time I've seen it, the poor beasts belonged to an old friend. I had to hit that friend pretty hard with some threats, and I brought Bob along with me as backup.
The most distressing thing to me about the pictures is not the shape of her feet, but how in the first picture her back is arched like a cat. She was enduring a lot of pain just to stand there.
But I post it because there's hope she'll have a life that's better now.
Heck you earned it, I say do nothing for a few days if you want to. If the folks get hungry tell em to pick you up something when they order their food. It's time they waited on you for awhile.
That doesn't happen in the wild does it? I thought they broke off. How come her's didn't?
Spell check Reba, you need to spell check.... dang it.
Hers probably didn't break off because she was in a small pen where she couldn't move much and she was in deep crap and mud.
Soft ground and not moving, and she's not heavy like a horse, and they don't wear like they should.
The horses I saw had shoes on, that kept their feet from wearing, and they went straight out in front like skis, as long as the rear hoof on that pony. Same thing... small pen, muddy soft ground, and shoes.
I do like doctoring them, don't I? Always have, even as a kid. :') When do you think yall will move?
For me crutches are easier to mange than a walker. At least I can lean on the crutches and still stand upright. With a walker I could not lean or sit down when I needed to. Be glad to go back to work. To be stuck at home and cannot do anything is not fun.
The kittens have their snoots full of catnip for the first time. They are sound asleep and one is using the other as a pillow.......
Kittens are so cute.
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