And ended up taking a rather unheroic position under the truck.
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Posted on 01/02/2007 9:57:39 AM PST by HairOfTheDog
If we can believe horses have personalities (and I think they do) then we can believe there are personality conflicts. I do think your end result is the same.
Bob never got along with Bay all that well (or any of the other Arabs he’s tried to have on his place) he’s just too loud and strong for them. But he could see Bay’s obvious affection for me. He took it as Bay having a preference for women... but I think it’s the handling more than the gender. Bob does fine with the Appys he’s had, who are not as easily cowed as Bay is.
I've been seriously absent lately. I can't get online at work very much anymore (I used to check in before work started, at lunch and breaks) because we have been put on the city's server which blocks things, doesn't allow pictures and/or cuts us off. Today is my first day of vacation - two whole weeks :) so if my server stays up for my home computer, I'm good to go for awhile.
An American Mother - I love the pictures of Shelley and Ruby, I'll try to get some new pictures of Blue and Belle here shortly. We are thinking about sending Blue out to a trainer for some serious work.
cjshapi - I am so sorry about Whitey, I've been there and while you know it's the right decision it sure is hard to lose a good friend, it still hurts years later.
PayNoAttentionManBehindCurtain, Carton253 - My old mare and my son's arab gelding would make life miserable for someone they didn't like. That generally meant someone who wanted to cowboy and prove how great a horseman they were, although Freckles, the gelding would take serious advantage of a timid rider. Bone jarring trots were the biggest. Lady had an extended trot that I could sit for hours but if pissed off, she could make you feel each stride clear up to your teeth.
HairOfTheDog, ecurbh - my feral cats solved my mole problem but my neighbor has tried just about everything to no avail. You might try dumping mothballs down the holes and then coering them up to see if that helps any. I'd sure worry about a giant sinkhole whereever that water is going.
Endeavor, praying your house sells rapidly and you get moved and settled.
Miss Targets - Bodie will mellow out, try talking to him and explaining that he's making you nervous and trying your patience, it really works :)
CindyDawg - still planning on retirement this year although I don't know how God's going to give me the financial ability to do it :) - somehow I expect. Lots of changes at the library in the past six months and it's no longer fun to work there, it's a trial daily and the doctor tells me I'm now working on an ulcer so time to get out and relax.
I'm sorry it's been so long since I've posted, I do try to keep up everyday but I'm not sure I haven't missed some posts.
Well, glad you checked in... glad it is nothing more than work obstacles keeping you away.
The cats do pretty well on the mole hills in the yard. They’ve gotten some. They don’t go in the paddock though, they never have. The horses scare ‘em.
The cats in the yard might be why you now have such a problem in the pastures, the moles are moving away from the yard. I don’t know of anything that is a sure fire cure.
And ended up taking a rather unheroic position under the truck.
I hate it when a workplace changes that much. Had a law firm dissolve out from under me in 1992, that was not much fun. But here we all are!
Be sure to post the Blue and Belle pics whenever you can. Ruby is so long in the body, she looks like a train of cars or a giant wiener-dog. She's flopped out on the floor at my feet right now (finally learning how to relax!) and she just goes on and on and on . . . . Shelley looks like a box beside her.
Pippin has gotten to be a big (and prudent) cat!
Yes, and as the puppy found out, he’s quite >pointy< in parts!
Enjoyed the pictures of your pups :~)
This little terrier is not a bad little retriever... she’s already better at actually bringing the Kong back than Homer... even though it’s way to big for him to carry.
Sometimes you just have to do things on faith that things will work out:’)
LOL. What a surprise that must have been. Who was more shocked? The cat or the loose dog?
Loose puppy is not sure what to make of the cats... He thinks they look pretty interesting, but they don’t seem to be very good sport.
Effective Horsemanship by Noel Jackson. Best all-round book on the nuts and bolts of training that I know of.
Anything that the Pony Club puts out is also worth reading, and the Brits put out a general cavalry manual for almost 150 years.
But he was that way to everybody. It was nothing personal. He was just a Bad, Mean Horse.
She eventually sold him to somebody who was going to compete him professionally in three-day. He was just too dangerous to keep, with all the little kids around the barn.
Ruby was swimming valiantly towards her mark, when the dog on the left got loose from his handler and got there first!
Our club president (who was the Bird Boy) thought fast and tossed another bumper out in front of Ruby's nose. She grabbed it, and everybody was happy.
She certainly is a Splashy Pup.
Some people say that there’s no such thing as a mean horse... that for a horse to be mean, someone has to make him that way. While I agree with that mostly, I also have to say that sometimes, sometimes a horse is just mean by his own nature alone.
She has a lot of experience breeding, she had at that time a splendid Thoroughbred stallion who had been a great show jumper in his day, with a lovely sweet temperament (she could keep him in a barn full of mares, no problem, he never got pushy or possessive, and anybody could ride him.) She bred him to one of her warmblood mares. The colt was always handled gently from birth and never forced or trained roughly.
He was just a mean S.O.B. and was so from about the time he turned 2. Maybe he was psycho.
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