Initially I felt terrible for the OP and I continued to feel for them despite being frustrated by their responses, but this latest “Nope” flurry of edits has me wanting to see the previous threads too.
On the other hand, I am relieved that the title changed to “Nope”, because the original title was giving me anxiety about being unemployed.
I guess I’m cheap and tacky too, because I do love a good train wreck once in a while. Who’s got a clue?
Looks like @LookinForSpace was dead on with the need to QFP as the OP tried to poof everything.
Richard spooner clinic and the crooked horse!
There was a poster called @ ChaseTheDream, chestnut QH dressage horse. Not sure if that is OP or not.
It’s all a bit jumpy, because it’s archived but:
and
In all honesty, because the story was so sad, I was hoping we were being trolled, but it’s same horse, same soundness issues, same posting style, and COTH response. I genuinely believe after reading the archived threads that the poster loves her (often unsound) horse, but is just very bad at listening/taking advice from others, even when they have experienced and informed opinions.
Really wish that it had just been a slightly more fun trainwreck like the Spooner one, and hope horse and rider now have peace. I got way more invested in this thread than usual thanks to being stuck inside all weekend because of the weather here.
Wow, what a wild ride that was.
This post, from 20 (20!) years ago, still sums it up pretty well, doesn’t it?
It seems like just about every request for help here has ended in about the same way for her. I very truly hope this poster has gotten the help she needs, and has gone to see her horse.
Sounds like there is no way this horse was 30 and not in some kind of pain. I hope she really did make those calls for him. He deserves a peaceful end, not a tragic decline.
Man, I just ran through some of those old threads. To quote Madea, “Lort!”.
Let’s give the OP credit where credit is due. If back in the ‘00s he stepped on a wire while rehabbing a bowed tendon, couldn’t bend one way without the OP worrying about the horse injuring himself, and had a difficult temperament, he sounds like one of those walking disasters of a horse you’d never think would make it to 30. Someone must have done something right at some point.
I’ll give her credit for paying for his care, but not seeing him or sending someone to see him for years other than some pictures from a barn owner she refuses to speak to? How do you really know what his quality of life is at that point? Sure, you know he’s not starving from the pictures, but he could be sore all over every day.
This is where it becomes unforgivable to me as well. Has this horse not been brushed in years? Had his feet picked? Anything?
OP assumes it’s being done because the BO is a good one, and seems to care for the horse. But assumptions with care and horses are always bad.
This is the part I do not get.
The barn owner is good enough to provide all the care a loved horse needs without questioning it, but not good enough to actually talk to?
The BO could have had the horse sold or euthanized years ago and the owner doesn’t know it. I’ve known shadier things to happen.
I am very sympathetic to people who are in circumstances beyond their control. Very. I am not sympathetic to someone who is in a situation where they have control and behave like an utter victim and refuse to take action. That is a nope. The horse could be dead lame and suffering but OP refuses to address the situation. Blames everyone else but themselves. The horse has no control over the situation. Just don’t have a tolerance for that kind of thing.
ETA: skimmed the Richard Spooner thread. Sounds like the horse was lame and had issues back in 2004. Who knows his condition now. 
Now everything about this makes sense
Lort indeed
Same. 
& Reminded me of when I posted asking if I should take my Very Gaited TWH to a Dressage clinic with a BNT < Jeff Ashton Moore, who co-authored USDF Judges Handbook.
Some replies were aghasted that I’d even consider such heresy 
Some were supportive, including one who simply suggested calling Clinician & asking if he had a problem with me & a gaited horse.
I did that.
His response: “He’s a horse, isn’t he?”
Turned out he had experience with gaited breeds as well as the Usual Suspects.
We went, learned a lot & I later took my more traditional TB to another of his clinics.
Not a single Nope was required 
At nearly 39 years old myself, I know that most of the time people are who they are. Very obvious in those old posts 20 years ago that OP doesn’t seem to have gathered much additional insight into these things in her life. Always interesting to me when people go through life like this. Especially when they do ask and receive solid advice yet keep their blinders on and repeat repeat repeat. I totally get if the person never receives constructive feedback, but COTH is a wealth of that horses or unrelated!!
Yeah the BO LOL
Totally! Honestly, even with hands-on, savvy owners, barn owners who keep Disaster Horses alive are worth their weights in gold. (And almost every barn, good or bad, has one Disaster Horse.)
BUT, could it bend to the left?
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