I just stumbled on this thread from a few years back: http://www.chronofhorse.com/forum/showthread.php?379261-True-Confessions-Time
These are so much fun to read!
[QUOTE=King Creole;7533188]
There wasn’t a bottle of water to be found at the barn…or in the trailer fridge…and walked to the house was toooooo faaaaaaaarrrrrr…so I drank out of the hose pipe. While my horse watched and tried to get some too…[/QUOTE]
Thats ok, I drink out of my horse’s water bucket.
I’m still laughing about the 5-second-ruled peanut butter cup off the trailer floor. That is great. :lol:
I’m also guilty of not washing my hands after being at the barn, and eating on the way home. Usually this is after I’ve groomed a particularly dirty and muddy chestnut pinto; rubbed liniment on legs; brushed/detangled/braided mane/tail; and if he relaxes and drops, occasionally after picking dead skin off himself.
And glad to see I’m also not the only one who’s drunk out of water buckets or troughs! That goes beyond drinking out of a hose.
[QUOTE=Stushica;7534227]
clean the brushes… and then stick them in the dishwasher and put it on a sani-cycle.[/QUOTE]
This isn’t the normal way to clean them?
I put lots of horse stuff in the dishwasher – bits, jelly scrubbers, rubber curries. Never had a second thought about it.
I’ve never peed (outside of an actual bathroom) at the barn. There was one place that I’ve boarded that didn’t have a bathroom … but I always suspected that the barn owner had a camera up. Wasn’t going to risk it.
I have, however, tied my horse to my trailer when it wasn’t hitched. Thankfully, I’ve never had a bad outcome (and I don’t do it anymore).
[QUOTE=lauralite;7538818]
I have, however, tied my horse to my trailer when it wasn’t hitched. Thankfully, I’ve never had a bad outcome (and I don’t do it anymore).[/QUOTE]
I’ve tied my horse to a rail instead of a post. It did have a bad outcome, but thankfully no one was injured. It was my Arab gelding when he was young… probably a yearling. He had bad tying skills. No idea what I was thinking. He’s the kind of horse who would spook and flip over backward.
This thread is making me realize the stupid things that I’ve done with horses or at the barn, lol. I must say that I did remember my lip balm yesterday. No dipping in the tainted Vaseline for me again.
Oh…that reminds me of another one. I had an accident with a hoof pick. Yes, I know…and that’s not even my confession. I had a bottle of Blue Kote or something on hand - it was that purple gentian violet stuff. I thought I’d better apply something to my wound to prevent infection. I only realized AFTER I’d applied it that it is bright purple and very visible on the wound to my hand. This wasn’t the first time I’d used Blue Kote either, so I knew what colour it was and that it stains…maybe I thought it had a different effect on humans? lol
Thought of another one. I learned the hard way not to take the cap off of a tube of paste wormer with your teeth. No matter how stuck the cap is, find another way. Because you will get a little wormer in your mouth and on your lips…and if it’s ivermectin, your lips WILL go numb!
[QUOTE=shiningwizard255;7539223]
Thought of another one. I learned the hard way not to take the cap off of a tube of paste wormer with your teeth. No matter how stuck the cap is, find another way. Because you will get a little wormer in your mouth and on your lips…and if it’s ivermectin, your lips WILL go numb![/QUOTE]
Yuck! I haven’t done that one yet, lol. With my luck it would be dormosedan gel and I would end up taking a nap. I did break a bottle of oxytocin in my hand once. I kept waiting for my uterus to start contracting or something… thankfully I wasn’t actually pregnant!
In my opinion, there is nothing more beautiful than a mound of moist, well formed, greenish/brownish manure balls.
…no one at work understands me…
On weekends, I go out to feed in the morning in my bathrobe and bedroom slippers. I’ve also been known to muck stalls as long as I was out there.
When my son left for his 2nd year of university I turned his room into a tack/feed room. The single bed, desk and shelves are all still there, but have pretty much been re-purposed. The bed is usually covered in clean saddle pads, desk has become feed prep area, shelving unit is full of misc horse stuff (leather cleaning supplies, spare stirrups, etc), and the closet holds all my riding clothes, boots etc. I don’t bring any “dirty/smelly” stuff that comes into that room, but it definitely smells like leather and feed (I don’t like feeding frozen feed pellets at -40degC so I don’t store it in the tack room at the barn). The first Christmas he came home I moved everything and turned it back into “his room”. Before he came home that summer, he told me not to bother, he prefers the spare bedroom in the basement anyway. I can (and have) turn it back into a perfectly good spare bedroom in an hour or so if needed.
[QUOTE=ManyDogs;7539429]
In my opinion, there is nothing more beautiful than a mound of moist, well formed, greenish/brownish manure balls.
…no one at work understands me…[/QUOTE]
Especially when you and the vet have just pulled an all-nighter with a colic. Them apples can be the most beautiful sight in all the world! 
I once fell asleep while riding my horse. Yep, full asleep. Woke up and he was standing there, looking back at me and when I woke up, he “waved” his head at me as if to say “HEY! You can’t sleep THERE!”
That was my “heart horse”. That should be one possible qualification for a “heart horse”…"Your horse MIGHT be a “heart horse if…”
Oh, and also…I got blasted by a friend last night for using the “horse” thermometer. Hey, it was cleaned after the last use and before this use with alcohol! What else can I do when I am sick and the “people” thermometer broke?! We don’t have a 24 hour store within 20 miles of here and I am NOT going for one with a fever!
I lived after my experience with the “filthy” thermometer, by the way…I’m still here. 
[QUOTE=Lady Eboshi;7539939]
Especially when you and the vet have just pulled an all-nighter with a colic. Them apples can be the most beautiful sight in all the world! :D[/QUOTE]
Hallelujah! We can all give a big AMEN to that!
[QUOTE=lauralite;7538818]
This isn’t the normal way to clean them?
I put lots of horse stuff in the dishwasher – bits, jelly scrubbers, rubber curries. Never had a second thought about it.
I’ve never peed (outside of an actual bathroom) at the barn. There was one place that I’ve boarded that didn’t have a bathroom … but I always suspected that the barn owner had a camera up. Wasn’t going to risk it.
I have, however, tied my horse to my trailer when it wasn’t hitched. Thankfully, I’ve never had a bad outcome (and I don’t do it anymore).[/QUOTE]
Risk it. Maybe they’ll invest in a porta-potty sometime…or at least leave some clean paper somewhere for “emergencies”.
[QUOTE=californianinkansas;7536195]
I’ve totally done this. No matter how hard I try, I can’t get the Bean whilst wearing gloves.
Oddly enough, in the non-horsey parts of my life I’m a total germophobe, having been traumatized by taking Pathogenic Microbiology as an undergrad.
Now, in the horsey pasts of my life, I’m the total opposite. Last week, I was mucking the paddock, stopped to drink a Diet Coke. I took the lid off the McDonald’s cup, fished out some ice cubes a couple of times with my bare hands to give to Vee, then put the lid back on and happily finished my soda.
I would happily sleep in one of my horse-hair-and-barn-dust laden t-shirts if my husband wouldn’t freak out about it.[/QUOTE]
I would use that little nugget as blackmail for a lower bill… I pick my beans barehanded!
I fed barefoot last night. Both barns. I have to admit, I liked the feeling of shavings under my feet as I went in to the feeders.
Hi! I’m glad that I’m not the only one who picks the Bean without wearing gloves.
I’m not a vet or a vet tech, though.
I was a pre-med/microbiology major until I hit the Great Walls of Organic Chemistry (I took it three times) and Microbial Genetics.
Ha! I’ve done a lot of what you all have done: I will pee in a stall, share food with horses, wear fleece breeches in the house when I’m cold, I regularly go to the supermarket in breeches after riding (who cares? It’s on the way home), wash saddle pads in my washer, pick crud from male and female horses sans gloves, put a wool cooler on my bed as a blanket, tasted flavored meds, taken Robaxin myself when I strained my back, etc. I mean, when you think of all of the aerosolized crap (literally) that we breathe in and get covered with as we groom and interact with our horses - I think we all have “primed” immune systems. Stuff to add: I used to pick the corn out of sweetfeed and eat it by the handful, I haul compressed alfalfa in my trunk and I love how it makes my car smell, I have “gotten to that happy place” while riding in a saddle that was a bit too small for me, I used to lay down with my mare in a stall (I would also kiss her on the lips).
Wait, doesn’t everyone do that?
[QUOTE=Freebird!;7537361]
Here’s another: I am so OCD about stalls, that when cleaning, if I can’t get a stray terd to stay on the pitchfork, I have no problem picking it up with my bare hands, and chunking it in the wheelbarrow.[/QUOTE]
