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The FreeRepublic Saddle Club thread! - Thread 11

Posted on 01/02/2007 9:57:39 AM PST by HairOfTheDog

The FreeRepublic Saddle Club - (very out of date) Who's Who *pics*

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
The FreeRepublic Saddle Club thread! - Thread TEN

New folk and occasional posters, jump right in and introduce yourselves, tell us about your horses, and post pictures if you've got them!



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What the duck? ;~)

I got mallards under my bird feeder. We had the female yesterday, today she brought her boyfriend.


6,221 posted on 04/17/2007 6:16:48 PM PDT by HairOfTheDog
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To: PayNoAttentionManBehindCurtain

Got the trailer back, and the money for it :~) They did a fine job... not factory perfect, but a nice repair.


6,222 posted on 04/17/2007 6:18:19 PM PDT by HairOfTheDog
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To: BladeRider

Oh, he is a beautiful dog. Congratulations :)


6,223 posted on 04/17/2007 6:51:14 PM PDT by Duchess47 ("One day I will leave this world and dream myself to Reality" Crazy Horse)
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To: HairOfTheDog

Global warming? :)


6,224 posted on 04/17/2007 6:52:44 PM PDT by Duchess47 ("One day I will leave this world and dream myself to Reality" Crazy Horse)
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To: Duchess47

Heh... must be. :~)


6,225 posted on 04/17/2007 7:11:16 PM PDT by HairOfTheDog
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To: HairOfTheDog; ecurbh; CindyDawg; AnAmericanMother; Endeavor; cjshapi; 3catsanadog; Grammy; ...
Good morning.

Looks like it is finally going to warm up a bit. Rain though.

Aw Ducks!

6,226 posted on 04/18/2007 5:36:20 AM PDT by MissTargets
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To: HairOfTheDog
"Mallards? Lemme at 'em!"

"No, no, Bad Shelley. No hunting over a baited field!"

6,227 posted on 04/18/2007 5:46:01 AM PDT by AnAmericanMother ((Ministrix of Ye Chase, TTGC Ladies' Auxiliary (recess appointment)))
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To: BladeRider
Now THAT is a good looking dog!

I can't get over how every hair is perfect . . . < sigh >

6,228 posted on 04/18/2007 5:47:24 AM PDT by AnAmericanMother ((Ministrix of Ye Chase, TTGC Ladies' Auxiliary (recess appointment)))
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To: HairOfTheDog

So are they wild? How cool:)

So did the guy from the store say/react anyway about the money for the trailer, or just pay up?

Overcast, chilly, and dreary here today. Waiting on the farrier. He had to cancel Mon. because of weather.

Good morning.

Becky


6,229 posted on 04/18/2007 5:56:24 AM PDT by PayNoAttentionManBehindCurtain
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To: AnAmericanMother

So does your dog hunt live ducks? I thought the kind of dogs you have just retrieved dead one, I didn’t realize they “hunted” other then to point.

Becky


6,230 posted on 04/18/2007 5:58:59 AM PDT by PayNoAttentionManBehindCurtain
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To: PayNoAttentionManBehindCurtain
The "big dogs" (the highly trained ones) train for Upland hunting where they have to quarter and flush (and point if they know how). Not normal behavior for Retrievers, but you can train it into them.

Oftentimes, btw, the ducks are still alive when the dog gets up to them . . . in fact at the last AKC hunt test we entered, we had some lousy gunners in the Junior blind -- they just winged my dog's duck and she was still very much alive, kicking, and indignant when my dog brought her back to the line. My dog doesn't care -- in fact when the Finished dogs were training upland a couple of months ago, they had a "flyaway" - a partridge that the gunners missed that then flew back over the gallery. My dog locked on it and started whining, so I said 'what the heck', slipped her lead and told her 'go get it girl.' She chased that partridge about a quarter mile downhill, flushing it every hundred yards or so. The bird wore out before she did, so she grabbed it and brought it back.

Shelley with the bird she got by her own unaided efforts.

Funny story from that same hunt test, same Junior test . . . right in front of us in the running order was a HUGE big chocolate male named Porter. Porter is a moose - he must weigh 100 pounds. Well, the gunners completely missed his bird, a large hen mallard. She was in the fall zone strolling up and down and quacking when Porter got up to her. She turned around, flapped her wings, and pecked him right on the nose! Porter hit the brakes and ran all the way back to the line and hid behind his handler, "Hey, man, this was NOT in the contract!"

He got another run. Also, the judges went out and spoke to the gunners. The next duck that flew out got shot three times, plus (after a slight pause) once while it was on the ground just to make sure. Pretty funny for everybody but the duck!

6,231 posted on 04/18/2007 6:11:02 AM PDT by AnAmericanMother ((Ministrix of Ye Chase, TTGC Ladies' Auxiliary (recess appointment)))
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To: PayNoAttentionManBehindCurtain

He just paid up.... didn’t say a lot about it... although he came the closest to apologizing I’ve seen, saying he had just been in a big hurry that day.

Today was really strange, I just came back from buying smokes, and I usually try to small talk with him, wanted to make sure I smiled and was friendly to him, ‘no hard feelings’ you know? Well, he smiles and chit chats then grabs a local paper and points to the picture of the Va Tech shooter and says “Did you hear... that shooter, he’s Korean! Messed up, angry, Korean.” Well yeah, I’d heard that. How am I supposed to respond to that? I said “Yeah - it’s really bad news... a really bad scene.”. That was awkward. Gotta go now.... see ya!


6,232 posted on 04/18/2007 6:17:06 AM PDT by HairOfTheDog
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To: PayNoAttentionManBehindCurtain

On the ducks... they’re really wild ducks, were too skittish to even come up within range when I was tossing bread out... so, I don’t even think they’re park ducks.


6,233 posted on 04/18/2007 6:18:55 AM PDT by HairOfTheDog
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To: AnAmericanMother

My friend Bob tells the story frequently of an injured but live goose who nearly drowned his lab. He had tried to call the dog back so he could shoot it again, but the dog bolted - too excited to stay put when he saw it go down in a pond. So the dog was in the way, not much he could do about it. And Canadian geese are big! Maybe 20 pounds... so Buck is trying to bring this thing back and it’s beating him around the face and neck with it’s wings and pecking at his eyes, and pushing him under!

It was a bad scene... he brought it back, but hunting is not always as clean and pretty as it is in old oil paintings ;~)


6,234 posted on 04/18/2007 6:26:57 AM PDT by HairOfTheDog
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To: AnAmericanMother

Oh, ok...learn something new every day. I never thought about them maybe not being dead from the shot. Makes sense.

That is a funny story about the dog that got pecked..LOL.

Becky


6,235 posted on 04/18/2007 6:50:22 AM PDT by PayNoAttentionManBehindCurtain
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To: HairOfTheDog

OO...that does sound awkward.

Well I’m glad he paid up without a hitch.

Becky


6,236 posted on 04/18/2007 6:51:29 AM PDT by PayNoAttentionManBehindCurtain
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To: HairOfTheDog

Is he Korean?


6,237 posted on 04/18/2007 6:56:23 AM PDT by AnAmericanMother ((Ministrix of Ye Chase, TTGC Ladies' Auxiliary (recess appointment)))
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To: HairOfTheDog
Ya gotta be able to whistle 'em off the bird . . . at least that's what they SAY. Once Shelley has started for a downed duck there's no stopping her, I could turn the collar up to a high 12 and she'd just blow me off.

A friend of mine's dog who's not much bigger than Shelley (around 55 pounds, Shelley's 43) wrestled a winged Canada to a complete standstill. She's a sweet, sweet little black girl, but she was VICIOUS. She jumped over the bird, got behind it, got it behind the head, and basically twisted its head off.

Of course, she was on dry land. In the water it might have been another story.

I think the lady dogs are more aggressive with the wounded birds -- at least all the ones I've seen just bore right in and don't quit til they've subdued it.

6,238 posted on 04/18/2007 7:01:29 AM PDT by AnAmericanMother ((Ministrix of Ye Chase, TTGC Ladies' Auxiliary (recess appointment)))
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To: PayNoAttentionManBehindCurtain
So what do you do about planting summer flowers where your pansies are?

I always face that same dilemma every year too. What I do is to start some marigold seeds in a bunch of spare pots and then transplant them when I pull the pansies up sometime in May. You can pull a full-grown marigold out of the ground and plant it somewhere else and it'll do fine. They're virtually indestructable. If I want anything else in there, I just go to Lowe's or Home Depot and get something that's already pretty good sized. So I guess you could say that I cheat. What I've thought about doing is starting a full blown "transplant gargen" somewhere else, kinda out of sight, and use it to get stuff started so that I can move it to the patio garden later.

6,239 posted on 04/18/2007 7:20:32 AM PDT by FrogInABlender (Don't take life too seriously. No one gets out alive.)
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Hey, I don’t think going to a store and buying stuff started is cheating:) I didn’t realize the pansies would be done by May, I thought they lasted longer. I’ve pulled a few up, to put a few things back in. Of course I have to hope that Lowes will still have some good stuff by May...The freeze around here seems to have wiped even the flowers in the stores out. Pretty slim pickens right now. I actually saw azealeas on sell yesterday for $1.59 for a galleon size bush....of course the bushes looked really sick. The tops of them had freeze damage. I don’t know if you could get them healthy. I’ve trid them before with no luck, so even at the price I passed.

Some of the New Guinea Impatients I put is was damaged, I’m going to replace with just regular impatients, but haven’t been able to find any.

Becky


6,240 posted on 04/18/2007 7:32:54 AM PDT by PayNoAttentionManBehindCurtain
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