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[OverandOnward]

From the comment, looks like Pete is getting shoes. Did he have them before? I should look at the video again, if it is still up.

But … I give mine the day off after farrier work, shoes or no.

I agree with the observation that Pete is not well-fleshed. That is not the condition I would want for a horse beginning a long ride. And it indicates that, as is the case for a horse that is experiencing the aging process, he may not be processing his food efficiently. Even if he has likely dropped weight since joining his new owner.

His backbone curvature isn’t looking like a long trip on foot, either. Pete’s whole expression to me has been “what the hell ???”

I’m guessing that Pete was given a couple of hours to prepare for the trip, mentally and physically.

Did Knucklehead lie again to get Pete? I would be on fire with rage if I passed an older horse along to a new owner, only to find out that this was going on. Although I don’t think I could allow a horse in Pete’s condition to go to anyone I didn’t personally know and could check up on him.

Total speculation - does anyone think he got Pete at a local livestock auction ??? There is one in almost every town in west Texas. There are [terrible] people who will take their older, not-so-usable horses there. Telling themselves that the horse will go to a family with a small child who wants to learn to ride, but knowing in their hearts that it is destined to slaughter in Mexico.

[BrownDerby]

I just re-viewed the video and believe he is unshod.

My other thought is by “pre-shave before shoeing” he means hoof trimming before being shod.

[LilRanger]

@SLW

Amarillo and the surrounding area is going to have a soggy weekend. I feel for those horses

Soggy is one way to put it …

[2DogsFarm]

I took my TWH camping right after a trim (barefoot).
2nd day out, after a long (3+hrs) ride on soft ground, but lots of up & down climbs, he was footsore.

Is it wrong to hope that both Cereal’s horses will be soon be so noticeably lame that even his doofus self will notice?

[Bogie]

@2DogsFarm

Is it wrong to hope that both Cereal’s horses will be soon be so noticeably lame that even his doofus self will notice?

I don’t think he cares.

[ShenanAnna]

Nope. I don’t think he cares a bit, either. Horses are just vehicles to him, and as long as a car, truck, or other vehicle is still running, you keep using it to get to wherever you’re going. (Maintenance/repair is not his forte, apparently.)

If/when his vehicles(s) actually break down/stop running, he’ll likely either leave it/them on the side of the road, like you would a car or truck, to be fixed later or abandoned, or, what seems to be more likely, he’d just sit down and wait for somebody to come along and fix it for him.

People have been doing everything for him so far; this is actually a logical, rational action for him, and far, far easier than assessing and/or maintaining his “vehicles” by himself.

[OverandOnward]

And it’s not just that he doesn’t care, it’s that he doesn’t seem to have one idea why he should care.

He seems to think it is silly to care about a horse’s welfare. He doesn’t get why anyone does care. And seems to believe that those who care are foolish.

That’s the vibe that he puts off in the videos. To me, anyway.

If one or both horses breaks down and can’t continue, someone will bring him one or two more horses. I think that’s his plan. I don’t know, of course.

[ShenanAnna]

Yes, he really does seem to think that caring about horses is foolish. Perhaps it’s not macho to him. Paying close attention to your vehicles, however, in their initial selection, repair, upgrading, and overall maintenance, how can that be considered feminine and/or wussy, even to him?

Is this evidence of something like the autism spectrum, where compassion or even knowledge of feelings just doesn’t occur? Even so, as a truck dispatcher, "some* awareness of vehicle maintenance and repair would likely have crept in. Did he think it would never apply to him? Does he even think?

Very little plan or planning in evidence here, except for social media and his personal appearance. Does anything else even count?

[Sparrowette]

This guy seems to have bought into the “old west” mythos of the lone cowboy riding romantically away into the sunset, leaving heartbroken women behind. (Cue the Sons of the Pioneers here - Seeeeeee them tumbling down…)

In part (or maybe most of), this is from Hollywood. But even the old Hollywood actors tended to be good riders. Look at Clayton Moore on Silver as he played the Lone Ranger. That man could sit a horse. And Silver was healthy, sound and beautiful. So was Roy and Dale with Trigger and Buttermilk.

When I was very small, I was taught by some old cowboys, real ones who had worked real cows for a living in the old-fashioned, cowhand way, and they taught me a lot. One was: “Always feed your horse before you feed yourself!” (and yes, thinking back to how they said it, they did put in the exclamation in there). Another was, check all the hooves before you get on. “Do you want to walk on a rock in your shoe?? Neither does he!”

The horses they rode were worked hard but well cared for. As long riders on tt have pointed out, a horse working and being taken care of are not mutually exclusive things.

[ShenanAnna]

@Sparrowette

(Cue the Sons of the Pioneers here - Seeeeeee them tumbling down…)

Tumbling Tumbleweeds! That’s just how they sound!

[Rackonteur]

Can you please post a link to his individual IG page with the pics you listed? The link you posted just takes me to IG and I have no idea how to navigate it. I did search 2raw2ride but there are several links with that name. All I saw were old pics from the early days of this “death march.”

[2DogsFarm]

@ShenanAnna

Does he even think ?

Sigh…
From all accounts, no, he does not.
But I’d hope even non-horsepeople would notice a 3-legged lame horse & be moved to do something. Anything.
Next Thought:
Is it too much to hope Falcon collapses under him & hopefully crushes some (if not many) Cereal body parts?
Or at least his Dreemz?

[SLW]

Here ya go:
https://instagram.com/2raw2ride?igshid=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ==

[SLW]

@2DogsFarm

I took my TWH camping right after a trim (barefoot).
2nd day out, after a long (3+hrs) ride on soft ground, but lots of up & down climbs, he was footsore.

Is it wrong to hope that both Cereal’s horses will be soon be so noticeably lame that even his doofus self will notice?

Best scenario for those two horses is to escape camp overnight and Cereal never finds them.

[Paint_Party]

@OverandOnward

Total speculation - does anyone think he got Pete at a local livestock auction ???

There was a segment on a video linked above, where Cereal McDoofus is being followed, and it shows Falcon tied to a fence. Cereal seems to be chatting with a guy in western clothes. The sign says it’s a livestock auction. So…???

Or has someone on social media spoken up and stated they honestly know the origins of Ol’ Pete?

[Sparrowette]

@Paint_Party

@OverandOnward

Total speculation - does anyone think he got Pete at a local livestock auction ???

There was a segment on a video linked above, where Cereal McDoofus is being followed, and it shows Falcon tied to a fence. Cereal seems to be chatting with a guy in western clothes. The sign says it’s a livestock auction. So…???

Or has someone on social media spoken up and stated they honestly know the origins of Ol’ Pete?

There was a post I saw on tt where a person said they knew the horse and that he was 20. Further down the replies, someone asked for more info, and the poster requested that the person send a dm to get more info.

Sorry, but I’m not sure I could find it again.

[OverandOnward]

@ShenanAnna

Very little plan or planning in evidence here, except for social media and his personal appearance. Does anything else even count?

This is THE question, I think.

His videos are so damn dumb. Cartoonish. An old Clint Eastwood western is more authentic.

He has dumped the option of making the trip about the horses, the learning curve, that kind of thing. Some criticism would be incoming regardless. But he would have gotten some serious followers as well if he had put his equine companions at the center of the journey. Even if it were still a lot of staging and posing.

Instead, it’s just these dumb clips, of himself because the horses are barely visible, that mean nothing.

He doesn’t read the room. At all.

It’s all in his head. And damn. He could have stayed in Austin, at his computer, in the air conditioning, and put together an illustrated cartoon of this trip. Buy the images from Fiver. It would have been a lot better at getting the attention he wants, the contracts & sales, than this mindless insanity.

[Sparrowette]

[Paint_Party]

Thanks! It does look like Ol’ Pete is known in that part of Texas.

[2DogsFarm]

TeeHee, someone called him “breakfast meal”

In my imagination, there’s a crowd lined up along his route, booing & carrying STOP CEREAL! signs.
But, he doesn’t have a route, does he?