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I took it that she started reading on Monday! It’s a big thread![/QUOTE]
Oh thanks! I was thinking talkofthetown had other horses and had been a responsible horse owner. She is in Florida, LOL.
Anyone who reads the entire thing (I am not too humble to say I did!) should indeed get a prize for endurance. :lol:
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This is the part that rubbed me the worst. I have zero respect for people who get animals they cannot afford to care for. Vet care on a starved horse is not something you should be saving for and holding off on getting the horse seen until you get the money together. Basic vet care should be a line item in an animal owner’s budget. Doubly so if you are getting a less than healthy animal. If you can’t afford a vet, you can’t afford a horse, much less a second one!
End rant. I’m really getting tired of people and should stay off CL and fb until every animal in the world has a decent home with a good owner[/QUOTE]
Why is this such a difficult concept for people to grasp? I don’t get it at ALL. Like, just the idea of having an animal that I am responsible for and not being able to afford reasonable and necessary vet care makes me feel significant stress. Do people just not think about it in advance?
(Reasonable and necessary meaning not everyone has to spend the money that someone like Barbaro’s owners could afford to spend, obviously. But routine care and bumps and bruises and scrapes that you can expect will happen just because animals do get into trouble, you should plan for.)
Preach!
I am seriously getting fed up with people not being able to afford basic animal care, or getting in to animals and not having basic knowledge. We got a phone call early the other morning because some guy that wants to have a homestead had a cow calving and had no clue what to do. It’s a little late at that point!!!
I love that people want to live a rural lifestyle, but get some knowledge, get some experience, get some practice, then get into large animal ownership.
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That is fantastic! You captured my essence! One tiny quibble, though. Shouldn’t Edward Gal’s head be bigger? If you’re going for realism, I mean.
I just looked at this thread for the first time since page 15.
How in the world did we get here? Lol
I guess I have 50 something pages to read!
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Preach!
I am seriously getting fed up with people not being able to afford basic animal care, or getting in to animals and not having basic knowledge. We got a phone call early the other morning because some guy that wants to have a homestead had a cow calving and had no clue what to do. It’s a little late at that point!!!
I love that people want to live a rural lifestyle, but get some knowledge, get some experience, get some practice, then get into large animal ownership.[/QUOTE]
You are forgetting that a large number of horse owners on here board their horses and truly have no idea how to really care for them. They leave it all up to the boarding facility. To me that is just as bad.
Knowledge comes from experience. It is great that your neighbor had you to call when in need. You can pass on your knowledge to someone who wants to learn. They in turn can help someone else.
Having cats and dogs can in no way prepare you for livestock raising. I do agree that you should have money if a need of the vet arises.
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brilliant!! but i thought the pony was grey??? still… you are a picasso!
I am having a very bad week so I look forward to this thread so so much!
And I still haven’t had any guac nor petted a pony lately
I too have finally made it through this thread. The cost was:
One bottle of wine (not shared)
One serving of popcorn
1/2 bag of corn chips
1 tub guacamole (this just felt almost mandatory)
1 bar Lindt dark chocolate
2 medicinal tipples from a bottle of vodka reserved for only the most necessary of occasions
1 can of air to clean out my keyboard when I literally LOL
2 electronics wipes to clean off my monitor
A near miss of being discovered by my boss when I just couldn’t tear myself away
Slight bruising to my forehead as I banged my head against my desk at the sheer wonder of what would possess a person to “rescue” an animal that they can’t afford vet care for
Carpel tunnel
Fanny fatigue
A hangover
And finally, dreams of Arabian show jumpers and prairie dogs (not sure why I kept going back to that thread)
So, what do I take away from this?
An ever increasing respect for the creative genius that is COTH
Awareness that there is a lesson here, but it isn’t the one intended by OP.
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The knowledge that Je suis Pony Owner aussi
Or AM I the OP!!! The plot thickens…
:lol: Nope, sorry for any confusion. I began reading on Monday. At work. At night, in bed. On my phone, at red lights…:uhoh: Thank you for vouching that I was a responsible horse owner, Warmbloods!
I did pick up on the fact that OP was in Florida, oh, I don’t know, 534 pages ago. I started to wonder if we knew her! Alas, dear COTHers, I have one final confession for you.
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(I still don’t know who the PO is) :lol:
PeteyPie, your latest masterpiece clearly makes you “artist in residence” on COTH. You have no rivals in the field of stick art - we bow before your genius. Personally, I think you have “right sized” Edward Gal’s noggin and have given the avocado the volume it deserves.
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To those who are offended that the OP started a thread about a transaction with another COTH member - I do not find this thread any more strange than any other thread on this board. It brings up some good points that people should remember, like when getting a pony for your kids, might be best to not make it a done thing in the kids mind until the pony is at home in its new stall.[/QUOTE]
YES! I have three girls. I NEVER took them on pony shopping trips until I had vetted (figuratively) the pony myself, brought along a pony sized rider and put it through its’ paces… it’s just too hard on the kids otherwise. Their priorities (cute, furry) are different than mine (safe, sound, sensible, affordable!) I saw a LOT of crap ponies before I found the right ones.
I feel sorry for the OP…but it’s a life lesson, for her and her kids unfortunately.
I would NOT have been bullied into buying the tack either, I don’t care if I drove twice the distance (which I would NEVER have done). If you do your research, you don’t need to drive 7 hours to find a nice pony.
ps…I"m getting to this WAY LATE…I’m sure i missed all the fun. The title of the thread seemed much more boring than the content of it.
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My attempt at a stick art horse. Looks more like a llama. A DRAMA LLAMA.
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]You are forgetting that a large number of horse owners on here board their horses and truly have no idea how to really care for them. They leave it all up to the boarding facility. To me that is just as bad.
Knowledge comes from experience. It is great that your neighbor had you to call when in need. You can pass on your knowledge to someone who wants to learn. They in turn can help someone else.
Having cats and dogs can in no way prepare you for livestock raising. I do agree that you should have money if a need of the vet arises.[/QUOTE]
But the reason I board my horse is because I know that I don’t have the knowledge necessary for equine emergencies. (Well, that and the fact that there’s no place for him at home.) Over the years however, I have learned how to make enough of a diagnostic to know that a horse may be entering into a laminitic episode and what to do until the vet arrived; how to poultice an abcessed hoof, how to wrap a partially severed heel bulb and how to deal with an injury close to the eye. I do expect help from the barn management in these situations until they have trained me enough to deal with these issues myself.
golf clap Well done.
[QUOTE=tidy rabbit;8116480]I’ve been hiding out in the house while the yard guys are here mowing and weed eating. I’ve read 30 pages (sort of) of this thread
I do have a bareback pad (pink with peace signs) for sale, it’s priced at 30K and comes with a horse.[/QUOTE]
Points and yells ADVERTISING!!! Everyone get her!
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My attempt at a stick art horse. Looks more like a llama. A DRAMA LLAMA.[/QUOTE]
I miss the days of a good ol’ drama llama meme or joke. Seems so long ago.
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das Pony war Scheiße außerhalb des Anhängers
