Getting rid of horses

[OverandOnward]

@Altertopic

I feel like if the title was different – there would have been nothing but supportive posts.

Who piled on? I think the responses have been responsive and supportive.

The title expressed a truth in the OP’s life. There seems to be enough life experience on COTH for people to understand. COTH posters are not usually just looking for something to snark at and criticize, and IMO that didn’t happen in this thread.

[Seagram]

Well, just a quick update. I have been making a conscious effort to spend more time with Pony every single day, and I somehow seem to have made some progress. I’ve made her paddock slightly smaller, so she has to deal with me and can’t just ignore my presence. She actually has started to come to me, (for a treat, of course) it is baby steps but progress!!

I could have worded the title differently, for sure. My non-horsey family members are the ones that say ‘get rid of the horses’. I know it is not that simple, and I guess that’s kind of what I wanted to explore. Not that I was just gonna ditch them immediately, but I am getting burnt out, I am getting older (menopause and all that fun crap), winter, and just life getting you down sometimes!
I love my horses, always have, and they have always come first. But sometimes it helps to vent with people who understand the frustrations and difficulties of horses!

[OnAMission]

When I’m frustrated with anything I say “we should just get rid of ____” too; it’s just how I say it and doesn’t really reflect the whirlwind of emotions behind it. My mom has been telling me I should “get rid of those horses” for decades now so I probably get it from that.

Glad the Pony is getting an inkling that she should try to be a little more domesticated!

[Seagram]

Thank you! I’m so glad she is too!

[Rackonteur]

Wow! And his shoes!

What app/program/software/? did you use to post this video? I’m actually able to watch it, and I can’t view most videos others post here on COTH. I don’t know why. But I’m very glad you did whatever you did to post this one.

[Rackonteur]

@fledermaus

I happen to believe that confusing homonyms is not a small error. Any more than any careless abuse of the English language is. I am a writer, have been an editor, a proofreader, and, of course, a royal pain in the ass on the internet. The slovening of written discourse is a loathsome thing, to some.

To me it is.
Sigh.

[Rackonteur]

@pluvinel

I suggest that your talents are wasted on proofing posts on an internet BB.

Oh but it’s so much fun!

[Rackonteur]

@BatCoach

Less than 20% of hospitals in America have religious affiliation (good news for women)

Not necessarily good news for women. Historically many of those hospitals that did have a religious affiliation were run by religious orders of women, I.e., nuns.
There aren’t nearly as many nuns around in this day and age, in this country, as there were in the past of these hospitals.
Now, it is debatable whether or not being nuns is a good thing for women-in-general. But hospitals that did have an affiliation with religions that had nuns to run them WERE a good thing for women, both the women religious and the women patients, religious and lay.

Just sayin’.

[Altertopic]

Nobody really piled on - lots of good ideas. Not nearly the volume of “just get rid of the Husband” suggestions as I expected. I was more pointing out that sometimes the title of a post gets responses that were not what you were expecting!

Hoping everything will start improving for the OP.

[saddleup]

I’m named after the nun who helped my mom deliver both my brother and me. My mom had difficult, high risk pregnancies and deliveries. She was so grateful for that sweet nun…me, too!

[2DogsFarm]

I can’t find the vid you’re referring to

I usually just hit Share on the vid site, then Copy Link to Paste on here.

ETA:
If you mean the Gordyville vid.
I did the above from the Gordyville site.

[anon6923113]

@Seagram

Well, just a quick update. I have been making a conscious effort to spend more time with Pony every single day, and I somehow seem to have made some progress. I’ve made her paddock slightly smaller, so she has to deal with me and can’t just ignore my presence. She actually has started to come to me, (for a treat, of course) it is baby steps but progress!!

Awesome. Good for you.

I second @Angela_Freda ‘s suggestion regarding finding a boarder who could help with some of the daily care. I have a home farm, and totally understand how it’s nice to have privacy and do things in your own preferred way… but if you could find the right boarder it might turn into someone to have with, and somebody who could do morning or evening feed for you a few days a week, and cover for you on vacations. And that might help the whole situation tremendously for a few years.

[Rackonteur]

Thanks. It was the auction vid. Really interesting!

[BatCoach]

@Rackonteur

But hospitals that did have an affiliation with religions that had nuns to run them WERE a good thing for women, both the women religious and the women patients, religious and lay.

Unless you were an unwed pregnant mother and had your child forcibly adopted or were going into sepis from a ‘slipped’ pregnancy that they refused to medically remove. I’m not going to turn this into a women’s healthcare debate, but I don’t think that someone else’s religious affiliation should impact the quality of healthcare that a patient receives.

[Impractical_Horsewoman]

Or had a complicated delivery. Or wanted unbiased advice about birth control. Or an ectopic pregnancy.

I know my comment’s going to get deleted in 5 minutes! But I’m too damn mad to care about what’s going on about this!

[OverandOnward]

I know thread drift is a thing here … but is it possible to take all the mad somewhere else? What is the point of spiraling down into this other debate that has zip to do with the OP and the thread? OP has a real issue. It resonates with others as well.

[NoSuchPerson]

@OverandOnward

I know thread drift is a thing here … but is it possible to take all the mad somewhere else? What is the point of spiraling down into this other debate that has zip to do with the OP and the thread? OP has a real issue. It resonates with others as well.

Amen. @Moderator_1, is it possible to get rid of the posts arguing over hospitals and religion?

[Rackonteur]

@BatCoach

Unless you were an unwed pregnant mother and had your child forcibly adopted or were going into sepis from a ‘slipped’ pregnancy that they refused to medically remove. I’m not going to turn this into a women’s healthcare debate, but I don’t think that someone else’s religious affiliation should impact the quality of healthcare that a patient receives.

I have never known that to happen.

[Rackonteur]

Yes please.

[Seagram]

It is a good suggestion, but I don’t think it would work in my situation. My horses are out 24/7, in their paddocks/pens/field, blanketed in the winter, and trees only shelter type situation. I used to have a shelter for them, but they never ever used it, so it is now my hay storage. Used to drive me crazy to see them out in the winter storms or pelting rain, ignoring all my hard work hanging up hay bags in the shelter so the poor poopsies could stay out of the elements, and they’d be in the middle of the field in the pouring rain or the mad snow blizzards.
It works for me and my horses, but I realize for some people this would not be acceptable horse care. Very rough board. I also would be pushing the boundaries of acreage/number of horses allowed.