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Posted on 09/18/2004 6:56:23 AM PDT by HairOfTheDog
Free Republic has a lot of horse people that have found each other on other threads…. And since we all like to talk horses, how about a thread where it is not off-topic, but is THE topic?
A few of us thought it would be interesting and informative to have a chat thread where we can 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 last thread we had a great time and were a great help to each other working through lessons and training, horse lamenesses and illnesses, questions and challenges and always just our stories we like to tell.
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 Becky pings everyone most mornings. Let Becky (Paynoattentionmanbehindthecurtain) 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 last thread, 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.
It's a front leg. Actually, I'm a bit afraid to try to find the point of pain. I've touched it easy all down and he doesn't react. I gave him and ibuprofen last night???, then wondered if that was OK for dogs.
Becky
I have a blue heeler and when we first got her she was herding anything that would move, even my kids. constantly nipping at their heels. I guess I beat her enough and she quit doing it. She's 6 or 7 years old now and you couldn't ask for a better dog. It's my black lab and miniature schnauzers that can be a problem. They aren't trying to be mean, they just want to play. Those schnauzers aren't going to survive even a mild kick. My donkey ran over the lab once and now the lab doesn't go anywhere near her. As a matter of fact, if she sees the donkey coming, she slinks away with her tail between her legs.
I have the same sign on my gate! Lost the old dogs now... but the last catagory still applies. ;~D
I keep dogs and horses seperate. Dog can't get out to the paddock/pasture area unless I am with her, and then I keep between her and the pony, who likes to take a pass at dogs. Bay will bite them. Especially if he is standing tied and dog walks under.... bites them hard right in the back.
Nothing like starting the morning off with a good laugh! Your husband sounds like a great dad!
Your dalmation sounds like my husband.
I always wondered how the heelers knew but they NEVER tried to heel the horses when I was riding. And I can't remember them heeling the kids:)
Heelers are great dogs, very loyal and protective. I didn't realize how well Josey kept the coyotes away till she was gone. But she and the other one we still have could never learn to leave the horses, and cows (when we had them) alone. The one we still have is pretty old now, and only pesters them when there is fence between them. She's had her leg broke and her face almost ripped off in the past. Josy was always the most aggressive of the two. She was also the funnest one too. She'd play frisbee and fetch. Her reaction time got slower as she got older tho, and I think she had some arthritis, so I figured that is why she finally got caught. One of the horses kicked her and she was dead before she hit the ground.
Becky
Sounded, as in past tense. He's gone now! :') (dog not husband)
Ibuprofin, I don't know, and I haven't found a really good website that says. I ~do~ know ACETAMINOPHEN (Tylenol) is a NO NO.
Buffered aspirin is better, according to the websites I found trying to search.
But I have always been told with an acute injury, their pain is what keeps them from hurting it worse. To some degree, it needs to hurt so he'll protect it.
LOL...yeah he is, but after 30 years, I think he has a warped sense of humor:)
Becky
The heeler we have carried on terrible when her leg got broke, but it was a very bad break. She cried till we got her to the vet and they put her out to exray. It was terrible.
Becky
A friend's Scottie Dog (which are close) took TWO-rear-up-and-stomps from a new momma with a foal (dog always harassed the horses, and they ignored her until there was a child involved). We rushed her to the vet with a split open eyebrow wondering what else. She was whole-body sore but fine the next day when she ventured out to do it again. They are stubborn things! Friend gave the dog to someone at her office. Dog was too bucket-headed (TM ;~D) to live long on a farm.
AS soon as I gave him that Ibuprofen, I thought, probably should have been asprin.
I didn't know that about tylenol. We had another dog once that I ran over, I think it broke his hip. He ran under the house and wouldn't come out for me to take him to the vet. He laid under there and cried, loud, for 2 days. I couldn't take it anymore. I had a bottle of liquid tylenol with codine, that was for the kids. I dumped almost all of it on some food and shoved it under the house. He ate it, and I didn't hear another sound for several days. I told Mack I think you need to get under there and pull him out, he's probably dead. But about that time he came out walked around for over a year with a back leg held up. But he wouldn't let us catch him. He was a very timid dog. We had friends who didn't even know we had a dog for a long time, because he would hide when people came. He was dumped on us when he was a puppy, and just sort of hung around, never left.
Becky
Cindy scared me the first time she saw Okie. She's usually so laid back but when she saw me she was jumping around. She finally stopped and walked up slowly in front of him and he lowered his head and they sniffed noses and then lost interest in each other. I didn't bring her back though because I didn't want to be watching out for her when I needed to focus on what I was doing. Maybe someday, if she lives that long.
Wow! I haven't had a horse kill a dog, yet, but I nearly killed the heeler. I had put up a temporary fence so the horses could get to some good grass. Dumb thing to do, they knocked the fence down and 3 of them got out. The 4th one, Tuffy, didn't get out and he was running back and forth frantically trying to get to the other horses. I went out to catch them with a bucket of feed. My dear husband comes out to help but he's in the pen with frantic Tuffy. I started yelling at him to get out, he didn't. Tuffy was running right for him, I was yelling at him to get out of the way, he didn't. Tuffy plowed him down. Husband says he thought the horse would go around him. That's not a chance I would take, personally. Anyway, I bundle him into the car and start flying out of the driveway and ran over the heeler. Bundled her up into the car, took her to the vet and husband to the ER. $5000 later, the heeler is fine. Insurance paid for the husband, who is also fine.
Worst day of my life. My husband is not a horse person, obviously. He really hates them now.
I think Grizzly is a bit of a bucket head. This will certainly tell us. I hope he learned his lesson.
Becky
Oh my...that was a bad day.
Becky
When we first got rabbits we didn't know and put a plastic water bowl in the cage. One ate it up and was in a lot of pain. I gave him some infant tylenol. He died about an hour later.
Okie was not bashful at all around here to chase the dogs. Even if they were just passing thru the run or laying in it, if he saw them, he'd pen his ears and charge and try to stomp them. At the time I was riding him, I wasn't taking a dog on rides with me. I don't know what he would do if he had a rider on him and a dog was in front of him. He might try to take off after them. Rusty will try to get them even when I'm on him if they are close in front of him.
Becky
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