The FreeRepublic Saddle Club thread! - Thread 11

[AnAmericanMother]

That's a terrible thing.

Sometimes it just happens - something that nobody could find on the vet check develops. It's sad that it's progressive and so painful.

I do feel sorry for the poor boy.

[AnAmericanMother]

Thank you! We make a real effort to keep our dogs in shape.

When Ruby arrived, she was a little butterball.

The breeder fosters her in-whelp bitches out to friends so that the pups grow up underfoot in a home with kids and commotion. She said the only problem with the lady who fosters Ruby's mom is that she overfeeds them. Otherwise it's a perfect situation - 40 fenced acres, pups get to play outside with the mom in a puppy paddock - My Shelley was also a butterball when she arrived, but that was because she was Boss Dog in a litter of nine and got more than her fair share of the food.

My vet competes her own dogs in agility and is a stickler for keeping them at the proper weight. We've actually had to adjust Ruby's food UP - she burns a lot of calories just kangarooing around.

[HairOfTheDog]

The Labrador standard says there should be little or no tuck. I showed Logan as fat as I would ever want to get him, and he still wasn't nearly as fat as the other labs. They look like sausages with legs, but the judges keep rewarding it.

[AnAmericanMother]

The English lady who bred Shelley's grandmother called it "show fat."

And you're right, as long as the judges keep rewarding it, it'll keep happening.

[Empress]

Yeah, same thing happens in the halter Quarter Horse arena, but it's still unhealthy. It's a crying shame.

[Grammy]

Fox news just announced that Barbaro has been euthanized.

[cjshapi]

Just saw that. So sad. He fought so damn hard.

[MissTargets]

OH NO!

[lysie]

:-(

So sad.

[Thywillnotmine]

Ok -- here I go: first attempt to post my own pictures. Here is the farm back in Canada. No horses visible, but I'm working on it!

[FrogInABlender]

Sorry nanster, all I get is a red x. Keep trying though. Try uploading them to Snapfish or Photobucket. Those work every time.

[CindyDawg]

This morning Cocoa was laying on the rug in the garage against Cindy. She just looked at me with this sad look , like "what have you done," Improvement though. The puppy was sleeping on the other side of the garage.My husband has
d my camera, making ID bagges for me. I''ll try to post some pics tonight.

[Thywillnotmine]

I had to switch a setting. It should work now.

[Thywillnotmine]

[FrogInABlender]

Darn! Still not working.

[CindyDawg]

Maybe Hair can get it, when she gets back here.

[proud_2_B_texasgal]

Nothin' pitiful about CJ! I love her!

[HairOfTheDog]

I'm here now... at the post I looked at, there was no URL for a picture, just an <IMG> tag. it should be <img="http:\\restoftheaddress.jpg">

We just got back from our walk in the woods... what a workout! walked about a mile but it was a lot of hill!

Didn't take a lot of pictures because the major blowdown section you've already seen, but I was struck by this particular spot where most everything went down. and two of the firs still standing are only standing because they got fouled up in that maple.

Also took this pic of the creek in winter

[Thywillnotmine]

What super photos! Ok, here I am at Snapfish, trying again: This is the farm in Fergus, Ontario.

[HairOfTheDog]

You're almost there, except you grabbed the URL of the thumbnail, not the full size one! Right click on the full size one.