The FreeRepublic Saddle Club thread! - Thread 11

[HairOfTheDog]

We got lucky... I don't think any horse has sense if they've got something like a forty foot section of rusty fence tangled around their feet.

Speaking of relying on a horse's good sense.... Take a look at this picture on a thread at the horse forum. The thread is supposed to be about Teeth floating, but I just posted this rant to the original poster:

I'd like to bring up a side issue, inspired by this photo of your three:



Rules of safe tying: 
Tie horses far enough apart that they can't interfere with each other.
Tie them to something they cannot bend, break or move
Tie them in an area free of hazards they can step in, get caught up in or cut themselves on.

An ounce of accident prevention is worth a thousand dollars in vet bills.  I'm a safety nut, and horses should never be tied to something like that, let alone three.  There are so many dangers involved with what I see in that picture I had to comment.  If you were able to snap that picture and no harm came of it, consider yourself very lucky.  Any one of them who decided to pull back could have started a chain reaction that ended in those horses dragging that rig all over the yard, injuring them badly on all those metal parts before you could get them stopped.

I don't mean to offend with this post, I hope to educate and warn, not just you, but other new or inexperienced horse owners who may not realize the danger until it's too late.

Yikes... that picture just gives me the willies.

[AnAmericanMother]

EEEEEEEEEEK!

Man, that lady got away with murder on that one.

Why tie ONE horse to a loose hay rake, let alone THREE?

[HairOfTheDog]

It's a disaster. I couldn't have posted an example of a more dangerous situation.

[Duchess47]

The prices sound pretty good there, much better than here. Horses are going for three digit figures, not five digits.

[Duchess47]

Boy, thankfully no one was hurt. That so easily could have been a disaster. I keep saying you've got some smart horses :) Help, we've gotten out and we can't get back.

[Duchess47]

That is so cool, congratulations to both. They are famous now.

[Duchess47]

Just saw pictures over there of a mare going to foal soon, standing in a paddock with standing water. My tongue just keeps getting shorter from biting it :)

Finally - the pictures from the breeder's where Friday, Sam and BamBam are. I forgot my camera so I had to take them with Bob's, then download the program to get them off the comera, then find them, make them much smaller, etc. etc. It's a nice camera - a Kodak, but it's software program is a pain in the neck.

In this first picture, the woman and little girl are petting their colt, Sidney I think his name is. His dam is the sorrel quarterhorse mare beside him. Friday and Sam are in with them now.

This is the buckskin stud that I'm hoping Friday and BamBam will be bred back to when they come home next year.

This is the black stud that they will try to breed them both to this year.

Friday and Sam - spending the first day getting accustomed to things in the round pen.

This is the stud they want to breed Farah to.

Today we took Tuffy up to the trainer and dropped him off. He behaved like an angel there and really got on her good side :) Hopefully, he'll stay that way. She seemed taken with him, talking about the perfect saddle of hers that would look good on him in the show ring, and just before we left, wondering if maybe we'd like her to show him in an app show the end of April at halter. She will start him in a snaffle but show him - if he makes it - in a bosal, that ought to look great on him. Anyway, the view at her barn.

She and Bob taking a look at him - she wanted to get the blankets off so she could see him but was trying to be patient. She decided he's *loud* enough :)

So - tonight, Bob is only feeding nine horses.

[AnAmericanMother]

Wow. Got horses moving all over the place.

Sounds like everything is working out o.k. so far.

ONLY nine horses . . .

[Duchess47]

Well, God willing and the creek don't rise (as my grandmother used to say) someone will come by and purchase three more, or one even :)

[HairOfTheDog]

Hey - thanks for the pics - looks like good progress on all fronts. I look forward to seeing tuffy's progress under saddle :~)

[AnAmericanMother]

My grandmother said that too.

How is Blue doing? And when is the new puppy due on the scene?

Look at this incredibly sophisticated 7-month-old femme fatale:

Of course I woke her up . . .

MORE typical!

[Duchess47]

The trainer asked us to come up again in two weeks to see how he's doing - that surprised me a little but it was a pleasent surpirse. I'll take pictures :)

[HairOfTheDog]

Very good :~)

[Duchess47]

She is extremely beautiful. How on earth do you get her so calm? Blue still can't be still a minute. Hummm, maybe if I let him on the couch?

I guess the new puppy will be coming in a couple of weeks. I'll have to have Bob call and check on her.

[Duchess47]

The longer we stood and visited, the more impressed she seemed to be with him. Not just his looks but his behavior too. It's one of those things where we expect our horses to behave but like kids, you're never sure if they actually will or not, especially around company. I did tell Tuffy that the pretty lady was going to teach him all sorts of things and make him a world class horse but he never listened to me before. I did decide if we still have CJ next year, she'll go up there too.

[AnAmericanMother]

There's only one method: WORK THEM STUPID.

Ruby was reclining on her fainting couch after having spent the day out training with the Big Dogs. She ran and played with the other puppies, then jumped and barked herself silly watching the young dogs do 30 yard retrieves - then our trainer said "what the heck" and let her run a couple of 30 yard singles herself. Which she did pretty well for a 7 month old - she dropped the 2nd one so we threw her a smaller Dokken and she did fine with that, I still have to grab her check cord to get her to drop the bird.

She was out from about 9 in the morning until 4:30 p.m., with an hour or so break for lunch (for the humans). She sacked out on the sofa until it was time to go to bed! (She's only allowed on the old sofa in the computer room, but she aspires to be a Bed Dog like Shelley.)

[AnAmericanMother]

Of COURSE Tuffy is going to be on his company manners.

Hope he keeps that up. He is a nice looking boy.

[Duchess47]

Ahha...now I understand. Bob takes Blue for a 5 mile run every day but I think it just gives him more energy. He needs to work all day.

[Duchess47]

Bob keeps assuring me he's past his colt stage but I guess I got so disgusted with him last year it will take awhile before I trust him to not act like an idiot.

[PayNoAttentionManBehindCurtain]

Well, I'm glad everything turned out OK...silly horses. Did they tear up the grass very bad?

Becky