Been through a lot with my horse, but wondering if it’s time to part ways. WWYD?

[SuzieQNutter]

People also get tricked into thinking horses are individuals and have their own quirks and it is just them. They are special and do that for me and me alone. It is normal for us. We do it all the time.

No. Horses are a result of their training and other than that horses are basically the same. Yes they are in categories like this horse is grouped in with the rearers. So we know by our experience with rearers, what that means for a rearer being ridden by a beginner.

I have 2 anecdotes that really stand out for people believing their horse is different.

The first, Mum told them she could see their horse out the kitchen window and saw him roll, then get up and walk backwards.

Don’t worry about that, that is normal for him.

Well that may be normal for him, but that is not normal for a horse, he needs to see a vet.

Mum called the day she saw him roll and then get up and trot backwards.

She was at Horseland. She told everyone within cooee, not to take their horse to our agistment, she was sick of being told her horse needed to see the vet. She would be moving him asap.

He went down with colic before that. He had emergency surgery, a large enterolith was removed from his stomach. He had now over doubled his purchase price and lived

Of course I am ecstatic that the horse survived, but it is not fair.

Fisherman’s Friend was a Grand Prix Dressage Stallion. One day he did not completely finish his feed. He was immediately taken to the vet and did not survive the operation to remove an enterolith. It is not fair that the horse with heaps of warnings lived and the horse that was so well looked after died. JMHO.

My experience was with going to work at a dressage place and reporting that one of the boarders horses sheath was swollen.

Don’t worry. That is normal for him. It happens all the time. Call the owner she deals with it.

Okay but that is not a normal thing that happens to a horse.

So I will admit that I hovered while the owner was there.

One of the directions in cleaning sheaths back then was to use sunlight soap, because sunlight soap is extremely mild.

The owner was using Sunlight Dishwashing Liquid and would not listen when I told there was a difference.

So yes, horses are individuals, each one is unique but a horse is a horse and also basically the same. In its different categories.

That is why we can give advice even from the other side of the world.

[alterusername]

I have been in a similar enough situation to OP (see my prior thread) and I did end up euthanizing when this horse threatened to rear under saddle. Tough call but 100 percent the right one, given this horse’s history of fractured withers and rearing on the ground.

[Range_Rover]

I greatly value your dedication to equine health research which seeks to detect skeletal problems in horses. The professional background and reputation of people who conduct this work requires evaluation. Becks Nairn lacks both veterinary science qualifications and anatomy experience as well as peer-reviewed publication.

Research scrutiny within the scientific community depends on peer review because experts from the field verify both the accuracy and validity of research findings. The absence of proper evaluation makes it difficult to determine whether results have sufficient trustworthiness and reliability. Untrained individuals who perform research use methodologies that do not follow the precise standards established by accredited professionals.

The health and well-being of horses together with the progression of veterinary knowledge depend on using evidence-based veterinary practises executed by certified veterinary professionals. Caring professionals must only accept findings and recommendations that derive from scientifically validated research to integrate them into their healthcare routines.

Before taking advice from Becks Nairn please seek veterinary expertise from licenced veterinarians in combination with reading peer-reviewed literature to make informed decisions. The well-being of our horses can only be secured through the use of established scientific methods and expert standards.

[jvanrens]

Not meaning to be rude, but this is a year old discussion, so your advice might be too late.

[McGurk]

@jvanrens,

I swear that’s a bot. Joined a week ago, only posted in this thread and a Becks Nairn thread, and I have never read anything that sounded more like it was written by AI.

[quietann]

I’ve reported it to the Mods, but no response so far.

[BWP]

It’s not a bot, but they’re definitely formulating replies using AI. Horse and Hound forum had the same issue with them a couple of weeks ago with ongoing grudge posts about the same person!

[endlessclimb]

I feel like such an old ninny. I don’t even know where to start, if I were to try and formulate a response via AI. How do you even do that? What are the search engines? What do you ask it to do?

[mmeqcenter]

ChatGPT is one people use a lot, I believe. I’ve heard students use it to like write whole papers. Wild. I have no idea how they work.

[quietann]

I’ve used the AI feature on LinkedIn to write first drafts of cover letters by feeding it my resume and a job listing. It does give starting place, but I rewrite everything. No copy and paste, because I’ve heard that it embeds an AI tag in its text that employers can screen for.

[endlessclimb]

Explain like I’m dumb here, because I am.

You give it the resume (copy and paste? Attachment?) and say “hang on, let me get you the job description”?

Or do you attach both documents first and then ask?

Or do you ask and then give it the document?

Does it interact in the middle? “Hey, where’s the job description?”

I’m 100% clueless.

[luvmyhackney]

I use Perplexity and Chat GPT depending on what I’m
doing.

With Perplexity you can add your resume and the job description via copy/paste or attach as documents then ask it to formulate a cover letter meeting xyz criteria.

Ie. highlight job skills that match, value you would bring to company, x amount of sentences, certain type of industry and so on

It’s great for brainstorming.

[Jo]

I’m going to add my standard caveat. Please research environmental impacts from AI usage and determine if it’s something you want to continue use of.

[endlessclimb]

Thank for for the ELI5 explanation. I still don’t really get it, maybe I’ll go try and see if “I” can make one of those bizarro AI pictures or something.

[quietann]

My resume is on LinkedIn, though I’ve since learned it actually shouldn’t be. If I’m looking at a job listing there, there’s a “have our AI write a cover letter for this job” button.

[endlessclimb]

Oh well that makes it super easy. Technology is cool, and scary.

[quietann]

Good point.

I use AI very sparingly. My standard cover letter, even customized to the job, hasn’t been cutting it.

I also briefly tried out ChatGPT for SAS coding, but it took longer to describe what I wanted than to copy-paste code I already had, and required a lot more corrections. My hands are getting worse, as is my typing, so I’m looking for ways to code without a lot of keyboard use.

This is all becoming less relevant as I’m probably retiring; the job market for what I do wasn’t great to start with, and with the chaos at the NIH, it’s basically vanished.

[Aussie_2020]

Did the OP ever give an update on the horse?

[dogsbody1]

@Aussie_2020

Did the OP ever give an update on the horse?

It’s weird you should ask. Literally just Sunday night I was laying in bed, feeling kind of desperate about the latest development in my life with this horse, and I think out of that desperation—despite not exactly being a spiritual or mystical person—I said to God, or the universe, or whatever, that I just wanted some sign to know what to do next. And then this bot, or this weird AI user with a vendetta against Becks Nairn, comes out of the blue and revives this year-old thread. I thought I might have a vivid dream or vision or something, but maybe this is the sign?

As for the update … it’s a really long and kind of depressing story. But maybe it’s not over.