The Daily Dumb

[endlessclimb]

Yesterday, was riding the young mare after she had had two days off. I decided to not lunge her before I got on - I like to live dangerously.

Neon green guy comes in, his horse is LIT and is acting like a kite on the lunge line. My young mare kept thinking about partaking. I said to Neon Green guy “if I get bucked off on behalf of your horse, you owe me a beer at a time and place of my choosing” which got everyone laughing. I told him to keep going though, as this was great for me and the young mare on learning to focus with distractions. She settled quickly after a couple attempts to zoom. Good girl, and a good laugh.

[Mercedes2]

Ha! When everyone knows their limits and works with each other, we can all get along. Mr. 17.2 showoff was jumping around on the lunge yesterday and throwing his enormous body everywhere so, even though my little pony is an angel, I decided the arena is not big enough for the two of us!

[sweetsalute]

My pony mare does not like being in close proximity to other horses in the arena, but as long as we have a bit of space she can deal. Many years ago when I used to board, there was another lady who would constantly ride her very large, very bad tempered gelding right up my mare’s butt (unsurprisingly, pony did not appreciate). Constantly. She could not seem to understand why I had an issue with that and frankly she’s just lucky my mare doesn’t kick. Got to a point where if she was in the arena, we went trail riding instead.

[atr]

I’m currently persuading my sheltered little flower that he can share the arena with galloping and sliding stops. He’s not at all convinced. So I must admit that yesterday I decided that discretion was the better part of valor when someone additional came in to lunge a rather hyper pony. I’ll take my death wish one dose at a time, thank you.

[endlessclimb]

Oh man my late mare HATED the reiner at the barn. She would never do anything but God almighty the ear pinning and gnashing teeth. It was almost funny because it was JUST that one horse, and just when he was spinning or stopping, that elicited that reaction from her. Wish she could talk to tell me what about that pissed her off so badly lol

[PNWSunnyDay]

@endlessclimb

Trainer Man walks in. He’s surprised to see me riding, and proceeds to tell me how dangerous it is to be riding without the big overhead lights on. That my horse can’t see and will trip. And the shadows will spook her!

@endlessclimb Remind me, Trainer Man is self-appointed in his position, yes?

[endlessclimb]

Well, he gives lessons, and people pay him…

He’s a nice guy. Just not a knowledgeable person at all.

[endlessclimb]

How did you manage that?!

[lenapesadie]

Went to get on and somehow caught my right thumbnail on the horn/pommel and ripped the nail right off. So there I was bleeding everywhere so decided to get right back off and almost broke my neck getting out of that thing.

[Rackonteur]

Pony Club Alternate Dismount.
Take right food out of stirrup, swing right leg over rump.
Kick left foot out of stirrup.
Slide/drop to ground.

What did your thumbnail get caught on? Ouch!!!
I have had my jacket get caught on the saddle horn, and my shirt; so I started tucking my shirts in and unzipping jackets before dismounting.
Some women have reported getting their bras caught on the horn.

[Rackonteur]

Don’t grab the horn when mounting. Grab a handful of mane just as you do when mounting with an English saddle.
Did your thumbnail get caught in the hole in the pommel/swell?

[lenapesadie]

I place my left hand on the horse’s off side when mounting to avoid adding extra torque on the saddle. I think as I swung my leg over my right hand came forward and caught on the swell or horn or something. I’m very used to my English saddles so my muscle memory doesn’t account for the large swell. The saddle in question has a very prominent swell.

The alternate dismount is probably the way to go. That or I’ll be dismounting at the block. Or both. Or different saddle lol.

[quietann]

One of my mare’s few issues is that she does kick – never people, but any horse that gets close to her butt, or her hay. And it is a wicked kick meant to do damage, with NO warning. I have paid for someone else’s vet bill and a few fence rails in the 14 years I’ve owned her. I did quadrille with her for a bit without a lot of issues, but if there was an odd number of horses in the group, she was the solo. And eventually she just lost her brains so I had to quit.

I warn people, and hope that they understand (most do.)

[sweetsalute]

Yes mine just has a very large personal space bubble and if it is invaded she will be very very grumpy but luckily won’t kick. Well, I presume she might eventually but it would take alot. I pony the young one off her sometimes and poor saint of a pony puts up with the argy bargy very well, until she doesn’t and then she says we are going home…and that’s that.

[swmorse]

My phone

I’m moving to North Carolina in a couple months and want a paper map because I want to easily see the entire state and use the grids to see how far away from each other some cities are

So I’m going to request one from AAA. Made a reminder on the phone last night to get a NC map

It comes up today ‘get a McDonalds map’. What? I don’t even go to McDonalds.

[quietann]

Interesting… When I had my filly, her breeder suggested that I pony her off my mare. Filly had been ponied off her grand-dam since just after weaning, so she knew the drill. (Her dam was not sound to ride, or she would have started by being ponied off her dam.) I had even ponied the filly when she was about 7 months old, in spite of having no prior experience ponying.

I said “no way, my mare kicks!” The breeder had never met my mare, but we both knew that my mare, who could be somewhat fractious, completely changed if she was given a job (anything from riding beside horses going through a scary area, leading 10 feet ahead of horses who were losing their brains, babysitting horses new to showing or trail riding, herding other animals) And she loves baby horses. So it might well have worked, though I think I would have asked someone more experienced in ponying to do it the first time!

[TheJenners]

Daily dumb:

OK first of all I completely recognize that easily half or more of this vent is because of a personal tick of mine. I really dislike people changing adult horses names. Like, really really dislike it, to the point of saying that it would be fair to say I hate it. If it’s something that rhymes, or is close enough, that’s fine. Also, childish names coming from adults are a blech from me.

My neighbor a couple parcels down seems very… innocent/naive in a lot of ways. So she was on the horse hunt for a second horse, had this list of wants/needs. Finds a horse a friend or acquaintance is selling, plasters it all over FB prior to PPE (so PPPE?), and says the horse’s name is Dream for “dream come true.” Direct quote. Horse seems like a nice grey Appendix type QH. Fails the PPE due to a club foot, because neighbor insists on barefoot and barefoot only, and this horse will need shoes to deal with moderate club foot - by the by, horse also totally sound in its current shoes.

She smears person, says they aren’t friends anymore.

She gets an another horse, much older paint type. Horse started choking, repeatedly, vet tells her she is pretty sure there is a tumor or something going on, poor prognosis, she keeps horse alive longer than I think was kind but did eventually PTS.

On the hunt for another horse. Other horse is found and checks all her boxes, yay I’m happy for her, he seems awesome. Oh. His name is now Dream

[Mercedes2]

We all have pet peeves so you’re free to have yours but horses don’t care if we change their names.

[TheJenners]

Your opinion regarding “care” but I do think they learn their name. I dunno, I almost feel like it’s bad juju or something. But if the horse’s name is Poseidon and gets changed to Roger, I just don’t get it other than an owner flexing ownership.

But I also don’t get people naming cars, so maybe my “animate/inanimate” and “names are sacred voodoo” vibe thing is too strong.

[Tee]

I’ve only changed one name on an adult horse. My first pony (when I was 21, so not a kid), they were calling Trixie. She was no more a Trixie than I am, so it got changed. Fairly sure they hadn’t had her long enough for her to get used to Trixie either, but she picked up on her new name pretty quick. The other two kept their names.

Now, the three babies have all had name changes. And yeah, I think they know their names. I call one from the pasture and that’s the one who comes to the gate while the other doesn’t even look up.