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
The FreeRepublic Saddle Club thread - Thread TWO!
The FreeRepublic Saddle Club thread - Thread THREE!
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
The FreeRepublic Saddle Club thread! - Thread NINE
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The FreeRepublic Saddle Club thread! - Thread 11
New folk and occasional posters, jump right in and introduce yourselves, tell us about your horses, and post pictures if you've got them!
Well good! Maybe he’s a keeper then. I finally got a good one. He’s expensive as the devil though, so it seems like there’s always trade-offs.
Incidently he gave me the same advice I think Becky's farrier gave her about "fungusy" feet - Clorox.
woah!
Freezing rain, then snow last night. Amy is coming home from work, they have no power and a lot of other areas are out also. Everything is covered in ice.
Funny picture, but some of the halter horses are getting close to looking like this..lol
Quarter Horse on Steroids.
Aw jeeeze :~) - Some of them, I’d think, if they could, they would!
Good morning! Chilly here this morning, colder than I thought it was going to be, it froze a little and my ponies are naked. Heading out there now to feed them some breakfast! Hope they’re in good humor.
LOL!! Looks like a picture somebody e-mailed me of Roger Clemmens’ dog.
I’ll agree, halter horses are getting a little outta hand.
Hi mama. Love you.
Twitter-Kat has had a remarkable scare this morning. We heard this ruckus and clattering around on the porch, but opened the door and looked around and didn't see anything. The horses came spooked out of the barn, but we couldn't figure out what it had been. Tweek was out, so I looked for her, figured she and one of the ferals had made the ruckus. Called and looked, couldn't find her anywhere.
So we fuss around outside with ecurbh loading the bad hay I have to take back to the feed store, and he hears something rustling behind a bunch of boards in the barn and a meow. We get a light and shine it back there and there's Tweek, hiding back there by herself, looking a little freaked out. We shine the light around and start moving boards to get her out of there and I find this (below). I swear, her collar is hanging from this big ole branch, just like this, when we found it.
The poor thing was all hung up on that branch! Dragging it around until she ran back behind some of those boards and got ~it~ snagged on a board and she could finally turn around and back out of the collar.
I can't imagine how she managed to do all that. But it hasn't helped her nerves or her blood pressure any. If we wouldn't have had to take the hay back, we wouldn't have even been back there to find her.
It is a good reminder to make sure all collars are loose enough to slide over their heads if they get caught on something.
Tweek, I think will spend the rest of the day relaxing IN the house.
My kitties aren't outside cats (Siamese will be stolen far too often if they're allowed out, and the boys want to fight with everything in sight) so they don't wear collars at all. But when my parents had an outside cat, she had a collar with an elastic band in it so it would stretch if she caught it on something. She never did . . . but you never know. Lived to the ripe old age of 22.
. . . and there's nothing wrong with a chunky Lab, so long as they're not FAT. Too many people overfeed their Labs until they look like miniature dirigibles. And the judges like fat Labs . . . to the point that my show friends refer to "show fat".
We had the elastic kind for awhile... they came off ~too~ easy. Like every time the cat scratched to take it off.
I’ve never known loose cats to be stolen. Lost maybe, but not stolen... usually they aren’t that easy to catch unless they are looking to be caught.
Kinda looks like a black hog with a Lab’s head stuck on it doesn’t he! ;o)
You just never know what mischeif a cat’s gonna get into do ya?! I’m glad she was ok and didn’t hang herself for real. I’ve had one of mine get his head stuck in a Wal-Mart bag handle and go tearing around the with the bag full of stuff banging off of everything in the house as he rounded the corners. Talk about a racket! But I’ll bet that branch was making some REALLY strange sounds. She must’ve been creeping forward under the branch and stuck the tip under her collar, then panicked when she felt it tighten around her neck and shot forward to get away from it and then just kept making it worse until something finally made her put it in reverse.
Horses and cats can get themselves into some of the darnedest situations I’ve ever seen. Miss Hope got both front feet stuck in the slats of a wooden pallet a week or two ago when I forgot and left the corral panel open that separates the front part of the barn from the hay. Both she and Grace snuck back there while I was in the feed room filling buckets and when I went back there to shoo them out she stepped on the empty hay pallet, first with one foot, then in Tar Baby fashion, the other foot. So I’m standing there “Whoa-ing” her and trying to figure out how the heck I’m going to get her out of it and she’s ignoring me and panicking and basically rearing up with a pallet on both feet, moving a step or two forward with her back feet, over and over again. I tried stepping on the pallet but she just jerked it out from under me, but she finally stepped on it with her own back feet and managed to jerk herself free. At that point all I could imagine was shreaded up front pasterns, but when I got to her all she had was some mussed-up hair on her ankles. Talk about a lucky break! Jeez! Scared 10 years off my life!
Geeze I bet... I can picture that scene.... wooooah now... but whatever is going to happen is going to happen at that point, and there isn’t anything you can do to stop it.
Yeah, you get a sick feeling in the pit of your stomach when stuff like that happens. It was a big heavy pallet too, maybe 3x4 feet, probably weighed 30 or 40 pounds. I’ve had ‘em step on pallets before and it usually just breaks the slats, but these must’ve bowed just enough to let her foot slip through and then sprang back. I think she must’ve borrowed one of the cat’s 9 lives that day!
Lucky and remarkable she didn’t get cut... like when Cyn freaked and climbed over the gate to get out of the barn. I was picturing her getting a foot through it and geting stuck in it and not stopping till she broke something, and she was just fine :~\ Not a mark on her.
Yeah, that was a miracle too. Makes your heart race just thinking about it.
They sure ride funny on TV ;~)
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