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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.
your stories about his family show his heart was in the right place there as well.... Praying for comfort for his wife and all of his loved ones.....Cindy
Wow.... scary story, would be hilarious to see on film, once we knew that it would play out without injury.
My mustang liked to roll in water, always had to keep him moving. No stopping!
It's just going to be a graveside funereal. He didn't want anything big...
Becky
Thanks:)
Becky
You are so right - you've inspired me to write a short card of appreciation today to our vet.... I usually drop by some little goodies at Christmas but rarely express my appreciation as I should.....
No, you really don't find people like that in the world anymore. That's why they leave such a lasting mark. :-) He sounded like he was a really wonderful person.
I didn't think about it, I just said "Oh boy!" and got off. As I got off, I pushed myself away from him. A psuedo emergency dismount if you will.
He was.
I have a feeling even tho he didn't want a big todo at his funereal, I bet there is going to be a hugh crowd there.
Becky
I was so haunted by that scene, I couldn't watch it when I watched the film a second time. I fast-forwarded.
Funny, you were talking about not rushing. My vet is like that but he's expensive and you can count on "tests". I went cheaper with another who acted like he was standing in fire ants. (go,go,go!) I've gone back to mine. He's special:')
They always have access to the lean-to, but they won't have free access to the stalls, if they're in, they'll be closed in, if they're out, they'll be locked out. Once the center dividers are up and they are all indivual stalls, they won't have an escape and someone would wind up cornered in the wrong stall.
Since Bay is too tidy to pee inside, my thinking is that most of the time, I'll close in the other too and let him come and go. He's so herd bound he'll likely stay inside with them, but he can slip out to pee and not wake me up pounding to go out at 4:30 am.
I just love the horse movies where I see riders go off or down and they just jump up and dust off their clothes and hop back on and continue on their way.
It's easy when you have people paid to take your falls ;~D
Yeah but I would think even the stunt men would have a groan and a stiff walk back to the horse:')
They left the stunt man groaning off camera.... the guy who dusts himself off prolly just came out of the makeup trailer and sat down ;~D
When I was a teenager, I got tossed nearly every day at first training my mustang. Of course, youth changes everything, and kids don't hurt for a week when they fall off. And also, I was bareback, it meant I prolly fell off more often, but people riding bareback don't fall as hard as people in saddles. You slip off early and gentler. The saddle only means you stay on further into the crisis till it's worse and you get thrown upward and more violently.
It's like my dad said about 4x4's when I got one. 4x4s don't keep you from getting stuck in the woods, they get you stuck farther OUT in the woods. ;~D
Now when Sarah Lee dumped me it was more of a controlled fall. I had time to break and see where I was going and jumped up and backed off before groaning and dusting. I wanted to get away from her .
In my case, going off, the saddle does more bruising than the ground.
Oh, and we don't have any soft ground around here. Even the mud hard:')
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