The FreeRepublic Saddle Club thread - Thread THREE!

[deaconjim]

You mean she hasn't had it yet?

[Rose of Sharn]

Thats Freep obsession fo u! LOL (sorry about your finger).

[deaconjim]

Ouch. Take my advice, don't do that. It hurts.

[Rose of Sharn]

Good evening, just got through telling everyone how you got me to ride Misty!~ Didnt tell them what I called you at the time though! LOL

[deaconjim]

Don't, you'll embarass the moderator.

[deaconjim]

Don't, you'll embarass the moderator.

[HairOfTheDog]

I rode that horse bareback almost exclusively. I went thousands of miles that way, falling off sometimes, a lot at first, but never really getting hurt. Mostly, I think because kids don't hurt the way us grownups do when we fall. But I also think the saddle doesn't keep you from coming off, it makes you stay on only a little longer till you fall harder. Bareback, you slide off and down, in a saddle, you get thrown upwards first.

I didn't get and use a saddle till I started jumping on him.... I jumped him plenty bareback... but I needed it to enter shows ;~D

I can't ride like that any more.

[deaconjim]

I have no idea why that posted twice. Sorry.

[HairOfTheDog]

Don't, you'll embarass the moderator.

I think I said the same thing when I smashed my finger!

[HairOfTheDog]

You can say that again... ;~D

[Rose of Sharn]

LOL

[deaconjim]

I'll bet you didn't say it in Gaelic!

[Momto2]

I would like to see the before pic of that foot.... what happened to him to get him to that condition before? I don't remember the story.

When we bought him last spring - he was shod. We were boarding him while getting our pasture ready. He threw a shoe and the place we had him called their farrier to re-shoe him. He instantly hated the farrier - he was very abusive to my horse which now I would not tolerate - but I was *so* inexperienced I just went with what they said. He was so frighened of this man he would begin to poop the minute he started working on him and went constantly until he had diarrhea - He then developed an abcess - that farrier took off the shoe - cut open the abcess - we soaked it for 10 days or so - then he was put another shoe on - after cutting a huge gouge out of the hoof. THe next visit - he cut even more - until it was almost to the coronary band ... Then it cracked - by now we had him at home - I found a barefoot style farrier who said he was trimming him all wrong. (BTW he stands perfectly for this new farrier and doesn't poop at all!!) - so he has been working on him and the difference is amazing - he couldn't even stand on that foot at first to have the other shoe pulled off. He said he had cut it at an angle so that everytime he put weight on it - it split open even further.

I love this farrier - he is even teaching my dd how to trim her own horse -

She really is happy - she is reacting to something her brother said!!

Oh and the tatoo is fake (thank goodness!)

[HairOfTheDog]

No, nothing as classy as that... you're right!

[PayNoAttentionManBehindCurtain]

You know, I had wanted horses since I was old enough to know what they were. I watched all the horse shows, My Friend Flicka, Fury, Roy Rogers, The lone Ranger, etc. named my bike.

I've often wondered if I had had them as a child, would I enjoy them now as much as I do. My kids don't remember not having horses. They still ride, and like it, and have their own horses, but their not fanatical about it like I am:). I go thru down times, mostly in the winter, but I also dread the time, that seems fast approaching when I won't be able to do the things with them I do now.

Becky

[Momto2]

Sorry to post that hoof answer and rudely butt into your conversation - it takes awhile for me to post photos -

[HairOfTheDog]

OK - I remember the story now... I didn't realize from that description that so much of the hoof wall had split out.

She really is happy - she is reacting to something her brother said!!

It looks like "aw mom, put the camera away!"

[deaconjim]

Classy? Guess it depends on the tone of voice....

[HairOfTheDog]

It's a free-form thread.... no such thing as a rude butt-in ;~D

[Rose of Sharn]

OK. Question from a novice such as I. I would Love to ride Sugar bareback, and wonder whether it would help me and her communicate better? Whether I would be able to learn the little movements that horses sense easier?