And Winter is coming…
Ohhh - le boxed-wine! :eek: Anyone have a hangover this a.m.?
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it’s called cardbordeaux, not boxed wine! c’mon, it’s like the first thing you learn on coth!
What, no treeless saddle?! How can your horse remain sound of body and mind in anything else? It must be a brown treeless saddle.
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My tongue is blue . . . and I flunked the ataxia test. Must’ve used too much Lyme.
Several aspirin an a new bottle of bordeaux will cure all that right quick for you
I don’t know if this is the cause, but I had a horse years ago that had similar symptoms (lameness and it was biting too) and I’m pretty sure the vet diagnosed it as rickety-horse syndrome, so I’m not sure if that’s what your horse has, but since there are similar signs you should probably get you vet out to do super-random-diagnostic-test that costs $500 just to rule that out.
And if you don’t do that, I won’t judge, but you are obviously a bad horse owner who wouldn’t know good advice if it hit her in the face.
I stopped at Qdoba on my way home from the barn just now and had a grilled chicken burrito bowl with sour cream and guac. Now I’m so full and so sleepy I don’t know how I’m going to clean my tack. I blame you people and all your talk of burritos!
WAAAAH!
Kim
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Girl - now you’re talkin!
OP, I don’t know if anyone else has suggested this because I haven’t bothered reading the whole thread but maybe you should consider putting your horse down. Your lame, Parelli-worshiping, carnivorous trans-gendered horse is clearly suffering and no amount of burritos will ever change that.
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No, what this horse really needs is Friendship Training.:yes:
http://friendshiptraining.org/
From the website:
"In a Nutshell…
#1. It has been irrefutably proven that positive reinforcement is far superior to punishment in altering behavior and results in a lasting behavioral modification. Punishment changes behavior only temporarily and presents many detrimental side effects.
#2. The Peer Attachment (horse buddies) equine relationship represents an intimate, positive relationship that is easily observed in almost any herd of horses. Horses and their humans in Australia, the US, Italy, England, Portugal and Scotland share this same intimate relationship with Friendship Training.
#3. Physiological responses to stress, (stress hormones) inhibit Memory, Concentration and Learning.
(Our FT horses learn easily and quickly because we use a positive, stress-free learning/teaching environment.) We do not use any type of restriction, whips, lariats, round pens, cordeos, picaderos, clickers, sticks or other ‘gadgets’.
#4. We take a holistic approach including, (but not limited to) nutrition, hoof care and social environment. We want our horse to be as content and stress free as possible.
#5. We feel that there is no such thing as a ‘bad horse’. Every horse in the world was born a perfect horse. The ‘Suddenly Temperamental or Bucking’ article below explains why they may not always act the way you expect them to act.
The three Principles of Friendship Training:
I. I will make my horse feel that they are the most loved, special horse in the world
II. I will give my horse every opportunity to live a stress-free, pain-free, joyful life.
This encompasses a wide range of subjects that affect our horse’s emotional and physical well-being. Bitless, hoof care, social environment, nutrition and physical conditioning are basic considerations.
III. The relationship I share with my horse and their well-being, will take precedence over all else, regardless of where we are, or what we are doing. For what we share is priceless.
In all of our Friendship Training exercises, three guidelines are strictly adhered to:
I. Freedom of Choice (We ask, instead of ordering.)
II. Freedom of Movement (No restriction of any kind is used for teaching/training.)
III. Freedom of Expression (The horse is always encouraged to express their feelings as long as it does not in any way injure their human teacher.)"[/QUOTE]
Wait - never heard of this, but I am already unintentionally doing this with MY horse !!! :eek:
And I don’t know if I actually believe in it or not, I was focusing on curing everything from sticky stifles to nipping through dressage lessons - I thought. :o
No really … none of these scents and oils and bonding, it’s clearly over the OP’s head …
OP, you deny your horse is actually a “problem horse” but if you had the wisdom and true horsemanship you would see the truth. You are the problem, not the horse. :yes:
Although if your horse injures anyone else there may be an intervention in your hospital room to force you to admit you have a problem horse.
Send your horse across the country along with your retirement savings for 12 weeks with a Very BNT professional horse whisperer. Or, well, probably one of his paying students will work with your horse and BNT won’t notice your horse among the dozens of others in training … but it will be just as good.
You won’t have enough money left to visit or observe your horse, but that’s ok because BNT won’t let owners visit anyway. Whatever funds you have left can buy hours upon hours of his videotape series (full package for just under $1k - your last $1k). Or you can save money and watch BNT’s series on cable television. Maybe your horse will show up! … or maybe not.
There is a risk your horse will fall seriously ill at BNT’s labyrinthine facility and incur whopping medical expenses (if the veterinary team can get through the locked gate and find him), along with extra time needed to recover and complete full training. By the time you can pay all the bills and scrounge the funds to ship your horse back home you’ll be deeply in debt. With little income since you’ve been watching the hundreds of hours of videos instead of working.
But in the end, it will be so. worth. it. 
Now wait just a minute- did you say your horse was in a BARN? As in, a small wooden cell? Surely all his/her problems will be solved if he has 24/7 access to a huge pasture with a bunch of donkey and goat companions- he should come and go as he pleases from a large well bedded shelter, tho he should be brought into a private safe area for small frequent feedings of organic grain that you have mixed in careful proportions with all natural herbal supplements.
When there is no grass, he should have free choice hay in small hole nets hung in at least 10 areas around the field to mimic natural grazing. Make sure that hay is Vegan, from the beautiful fields of luscious timothy/alfalfa/bermuda/coastal/orchard/teff/green oat grass on the other side of the continent.
Oh- don’t forget to ask respectfully if he would like to be ridden today in his bitless bridle and custom fitted treeless saddle with the 4" organic wool fleece pad. If he says no, feed him a bag of your special low NSC horse cookies and let him go- respectfully of course.
Can’t argue with THAT one–only I don’t do goats.
I don’t see how I could possibly be in over my head.
My cousin’s neighbor’s goat once at a Pony Club manual and I have driven by that farm MANY MANY times, so obviously I know what I am doing.
Y’all are mean.
And you STILL don’t understand that this is my heart horse and couldn’t possibly ever hurt me because he lurrrrves me.
I put Twinkle Toes on his hooves tonight. I’m sure he’ll be fine in the morning.
This is the Best. Thread. Ever.
It is fairly obvious that your horse is depressed because the sky is not as blue as it used to be.
To be sure, we will need a photo of the whorls on his/her forehead.
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It is fairly obvious that your horse is depressed because the sky is not as blue as it used to be.
To be sure, we will need a photo of the whorls on his/her forehead.[/QUOTE]
Pretty sure this horse is in the witness protection program and so can’t be photographed.
A drawing will do. We only need the location of the whorls so that we can determine the fate of the horse and his/her entire personality based on those.
Somebody already mentioned essential oils and the Spirit Bridle. Don’t forget the Spirit Yoke! And you MUST get a really obnoxious saddle fitter for the latest French saddle de jour. You know that anything that isn’t made exactly for him will make him lame. And the saddle fitter who treats you like crap will need to be out again every three months to reflock the saddle as his muscling changes.
And don’t forget the rope halter. MUST have the rope halter.
