Posted on 08/07/2007 7:33:14 AM PDT by HairOfTheDog
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, usually about our horses, sometimes about our dogs, gardens and other stuff we do. :~)
I have a ping list for horse threads that are of interest, and MissTargets will ping everyone most mornings. Let MissTargets and/or me know if you would like to be on the ping list.
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.
Previous threads:
The FreeRepublic Saddle Club thread - thread ONE
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The FreeRepublic Saddle Club thread! - Thread FOUR
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The FreeRepublic Saddle Club thread! - Thread SIX
The FreeRepublic Saddle Club thread! - Thread SEVEN
The FreeRepublic Saddle Club thread! - Thread EIGHT
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The FreeRepublic Saddle Club thread! - Thread 11
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ooops meant to ping you to the above too. :~)
BTW - we’re going tonight to look at and buy that entertainment center, if we end up liking it. She wants us to come after 6. I hope you’re up to that!
Yah, sure, you betcha!
Do I need to stop for cat food on my way home?
No we can get through tonight. Lets get the meet up done and the entertainment center thing done as early as possible so she doesn’t sell it out from underneath us!
That’s great news on Miss Gracie :)
Poor Barkley. Maybe it’s some kind of a bone spur. I’ve got something in my neck that if I turn my head wrong there is excrutiating pain. As soon as it unlocks it’s okay. Hope you guys can figure out what it is.
I saw that “GreatPumpkin” of an orange leather couch and loveseat that Rosie pinged you to on Craigslist. If you’re picking that thing up too then pardon my bluntness, but Dang, that thing was ugly! It’d keep me up at night it was so loud! ;o) Good luck on getting the entertainment center though. I hope it turns out to be a nice one.
I think that orange couch would be a lot of fun at parties. :~)
But I don’t have any parties any more. Not those kind anyway. :~)
Oh - and we picked up the entertainment center tonight. It’ll work, but the little slide out drawers are made for VHS tapes, not DVDs so not sure what we’re going to do to make that work. :~\
I hope we figure it out too Duchess, but if it’s something like happens to you, I’m not sure what we’d do about it, except try to get him to relax and rest.
In still other news . . . the dogs are in training! Miss Ruby had four weeks of Boot Camp and she's like a different dog, much more focussed and much calmer. How she LOVES to retrieve! She's entered in a hunt test in September and another one in October, I think she will be o.k. so long as she remembers to return the birds to hand.
Miss Shelley is also entered in the same tests -- we're going to try to get her a pass or two in Seasoned (the next level up from Started). She will have to do a land blind and a water blind, and she's a little weak on blinds.
But we had a lot of fun this weekend and got some blind training in too. Some of the guys were shooting live fliers, and one mallard got away and got into the tall weeds on a tiny island in the middle of the pond. I wondered why Shelley blew off a simple short water mark, and of course it was because a live duck was hiding off to one side! After everybody was done with the marks, I asked one of the guys if the duck was still in there, and he said yes, let me get my shotgun. I said "don't shoot my dog, now" and went ahead and told Shelley, "There's a dead bird out there" ("dead bird" being the cue for a blind). It was all I could do to keep her from going before she was sent!
She went boiling out, leaped into the water (she never does that) and churned right up onto the island without even slowing down, and just stuck herself right into the tall weeds. Then her tail started going in a big blur - "She's got him!" and she backed out with a very indignant mallard in her mouth. He was flapping and quacking and pecking but he couldn't do anything to her because she had him by the middle of the back. She swam right back across the pond with this struggling duck in her mouth - and this look on her face like, "I despise the entire mallard generation!" and delivered perfectly to hand despite the fact that Mr. Mallard was dancing the macarena . . . .
She didn't even muss a feather on him, either. The trainer took him from me and said, "You're a lucky ducky today," and popped him back in the duck crate.
But Shelley was SO revved up from retrieving a live, kicking duck that she did three 60 yard blinds in a row perfectly, and at a full gallop. I hope she remembers that for two weekends from now . . . .
I took Shelley to a dog massage therapist, and it did her a lot of good.
LOL! Well, it wouldn't show puke anyways. ;o)
. . . just make sure all your weak-stomached drunks are eating Cheetos . . . . < blecccch >
Good morning.
Looks like the yard sale was a success.
We had a nice, relaxing camping trip. I caught my biggest fish to date, about a 3lb catfish. That was exciting, as he put up a bit of fight, swimming under a ledge, and back an forth as I reeled him in. I also caught a couple of nice bass...we released all of them.
And meant to mention, Susie has become quit the little swimmer. In the past she didn’t ever seem real interested in getting in water, other then just over her paws. But this weekend I couldn’t hardly keep her out of the lake. Wonder if it was seeing the other dogs swim? But every time we threw something in, or fish flopped, she went right in after it, and would bring back sticks. I think she really had fun doing it.
That sounds cool about Shelly and the duck. And Miss Ruby sounds like she was a model student at boot camp. They ought to do well at their trials.
Good tip! ;~)
I bet the other dogs were a big part of Suzi going in. Zulu was always the same way, wouldn’t swim, just wade around... till I left in a boat! We had to come get her! Then afterwards she’d sometimes swim a little to follow Logan out, but since she didn’t retrieve, I don’t think she usually had a reason to swim. :~)
Congrats on the catfish... :~) Glad it was a nice trip.
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