The FreeRepublic Saddle Club thread! - Thread 11

[HairOfTheDog]

I’m gonna post it over at the horse forum... that oughta get them talking.

[CindyDawg]

I have ceramic tile and don’t miss the carpet. Two problems though...it’s slipper when wet and the kitchen always needs mopping. Hopefully this next year I will get around to a brick color in there.

[CindyDawg]

Do you ever watch that show “Little People” He and his son were hunting them, with guns and water hoses. They finally got some traps.

[HairOfTheDog]

I haven’t seen that.

Apparently dad has two traps... we’ve read up on how to set them, we’ll try that, next time we can get up to the beach house and pick them up.

[CindyDawg]

I would have to let the monster go, to set that cat straight:’)

[CindyDawg]

Cyn looks puzzled too:’)

[HairOfTheDog]

Maybe next time I will... when he’s even more complacent :~)

[CindyDawg]

Let Ecurbh do it so you can get the pic:’)

[Beaker]

You think that sounds corny or would they enjoy it? I think they’d like the woods, they’re from pine forest area of AZ, so it’s much different from their woods at home.

You'd have to ask them. I don't know how partial they would be to being lead, but you and Ecurbh could each walk by the horses heads. I do know that when I did the pony party last weekend, all of the adults wanted to go for a ride, lead or not. (And they were all sober too!) :~D

[Beaker]

Becky, that's terrible about your friend's horse, but I'm very glad that he seems to be pulling through

Frog, you can get fresian colts pretty cheap, (Cheap being under 10 grand, which IS cheap compared to the $30,000 price tag of a trained one) A fresian is my dream horse, but it'll just have to remain a dream! I'd like to have a Fjord someday, that's more attainable. There are quite a few Fresians at the shows that I go to, I'll have to get pictures.

[Beaker]

A relative of mine had a huge mole problem and tried everything to no avail. The only thing that worked was small explosives. (I kid you not, but I don’t recommend it if you don’t know what you’re doing. Fortunately (I guess) he did.)

[Beaker]

My mother's dog used to chase the cat for about a year, (He used to bark in her face to make her run, and then give chase) until she turned around and gave him a good swat on the nose. Now she torments him! He's terrified of her. My mother had to come home from work early one day because the landlord had called and said that the dog was barking his head off, which was unusual. Mom comes home to find the cat cornering the dog against the bed, and he was too chicken to go around her.

And another strange thing that the cat does... whenever someone yells at the dog, and shouts "BAD DOG!" she's come blazing from wherever she is in the house and attacks him, hissing and spitting.

[PayNoAttentionManBehindCurtain]

Good morning....

It's raining...again:(

Becky

[carton253]

I'm back with two more terms that I hope you can help me with. From Robert E. Lee, Jr's book about his father.

"My misgivings were fully realized, for Traveller would not walk a step. He took a short, high trot - a buck trot, as compared to a buck-jump - and kept it up to Fredricksburg, some thirty miles away."

What is a buck trot and what is a buck jump.

Thank you very much.

[MissTargets]

Good Morning. Going to be a beautiful day. Sunny and mid 70’s (sorry Becky) I am getting ready to head out to the horse show. See you all later and have a great weekend!

[PayNoAttentionManBehindCurtain]

How was your ride yesterday? Did I miss it?

Becky

[PayNoAttentionManBehindCurtain]

I have no clue.

Becky

[carton253]

Neither do I, but according to Young Rob, Traveller was doing it on purpose because he didn’t want to be ridden by anyone else by General Lee. That’s not the first place I had read that either, and the other authors used the same phrasing.

[AnAmericanMother]

A "buck trot" is a little unusual - but a buck-jump is more common. That's when a horse doesn't really buck, doesn't put his head down or really put his back into it, but sort of does a half-canter stride with a kick out at the end of it . . . some people call it "crow-hopping" because that's what it looks like. It's rather uncomfortable, but it won't unseat you like a real twisting buck will. I used to ride a QH who buck-jumped when he felt good, he wasn't trying to dump me, just expressing his feelings.

I imagine what young Rob is describing is a similar phenomenon in a trot -- probably Traveller was suspending his trot and giving an occasional kick out behind. The "Big Blond" - my trainer's new enormous QH - does that when he doesn't want to go forward. All that energy has to go somewhere I guess.

[carton253]

Young Rob said after 30 miles of it, he was plumb tuckered.