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My horse stories have sure waxed and waned, haven't they? I often thought horses were placed just far enough out of my reach to keep me permanently hyper. Then I found out I am hyper-thyroid. Well, why didn't somebody say something sooner? No WondeR! It all fits more tidily together, I can knit my seams tidy and true. Close them up, as it were. Trouble is, I've not been thinking about horses much, too much else to do.
Winter is um, tiring. I have to keep the girls busy, or I pay the price of bored herding dog squared. I would rather slog through snow-drifts, thank you:)
Tangenting..
Reading about how anesthetics had their beginnings when I was getting the "new" anesthetics (I was 3 years old, happened again for tonsils), piques my interest too. What do we Do to our brains? What DiD we do? What ArE we doing? Fascinating to me, as a closet epidemiologist of the human bug.
Okay, okay, horses. Pick up a real rag of a horse magazine, and read about how you can BuY "Wild Mustangs!" On-Line!
Horses are in between that rock and that hard place, in today's world, huh. You can't deny owning one is "luxury", even if you're living the life of a pauper to own him. If he's your pet, and you can afford him, awesome. But I am still so surprised by this advent of the back-yard pasture-puff-pet being a viable alternative for anyone wanting to ride, in this day and age. It's even tacitly encouraged, isn't it, on some of the forums I've read. "Light riding sound." What does that Mean? Support your local vet, is how it reads to me, but I'm overtly cynical some days.
Horses, even the miniatures, are horses. Big enough to hurt you, expensive enough to bankrupt you, if you're unlucky, or unwary, or unwise. I just want to plead, think carefully, those who dream of owning that first horse! Better to ride several schoolies/lease sale horses at different barns for several years, than to yield to that terrible urgency to save one, to own one. To love one. They of course deserve it.
But you, as the rider, owe it to the future horse you will own, to learn to ride as well as you can, first, and to learn the ways and wiles of horse-keeping, from the professionals. First. Just my opin-onion, don't shoot me.
This has been a public service announcement on the NotSoSwift "Let's get Some Good Horsemanship Training On-Line" Channel.
Further broadcasts must be moderaluated.
Or whizzed on, depending on the mood:)
This made me laugh:)
This one, too:)
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Scary Asian message GL. I'm not clicking on the link! My brother is fluent in Mandarin, maybe he could send me something to tell off these idiots. There is nothing like a good Chinese scolding (my brother gets that from his wife all the time!).
Wanted to tell you that I just found out today I have Hypothyroidism...Opposite of you and nice to know my amazing ability to gain weight - yet not lose it - has a biological reason! I told you we would make a good team. A balancing act.
Anyways, interesting post. I must say, I lament the loss of horses as being actual real working animals vs. luxury "pets." As in, financially valuable for the service they can provide to men. Chase down a cow, not to win a blue ribbon, but cuz that cow needed to be caught and branded! Pull the cart and family into town for church, looking good while doing it. A ride over to the neighbors to pick up a cup of sugar. A two horse team (equivalent to 30 hp), plowing in the spring.
I know I romanticize, but I really just think there is something "right" with the domesticate relationship between working animals and man. We all have our jobs to do, we help each get it done, we take care of each other.
I know the Amish are highly criticized for using up their equines and leaving them at auction. In a way, I understand that. Sorry, but they don't have endless "retirement" pastures. The animals have to pay for themselves, or be replaced by one that does. Although, abuse and lack of good conditions, proper nutrition (which I know the Amish are also accused of) doesn't make any more sense in a working animal environment than it does in a "pet" one.
I don't know what the answer is. I know we aren't going back. (Well maybe we will, peak oil anyone?). I still want to get a draft horse team and nixay my tractors (well, except the combine!).
Spring, please?
Where do those asian things come from?
blech, I deleted it, 4EVER.
Great post ! I finally "get the carrot stick " concept!lol
Horses are wonderful , but yes they can be dangerous,even it you know your stuff. As for the Pasture Puff thing, i don't know what to say about it , "light riding sound" that horse is in pain right...?
Piaffe=carrot. Trooper should be doing brilliantly in no time.
Do you think you get better results using organic carrots? Would they learn faster? Piafe higher?
I finally had to watch those videos. OMG that 2nd one cracked me up! I think the lady filming must have peed her pants she laughed so hard. I gotta admit, I like those gals. Tennis shoe riding and all, they were having a heck of a good time with that cute pony!
As far as the first video, everytime I see folks "teaching the piaffe" I think, Hmm...why don't they just get an OTTB? I swear, I'm spending my time working on NOT getting her to do that!
I'm sure they WerE organic, NCC. Otherwise they wouldn't have worked;)
Can someone explain why asian spam doesn't show on a ping counter? How do they DO that? And why?
I got another "I'm from (insert country here) and have x gabillion dollars".
PLEASE, take it off my hands..
yeah, right.
I refuse to accept pity pings, by the way, read or don't read, but don't bug me. LITERALLY!!
I gotta ask kaede something..
shite, forgot what it was...
...
Oh, right.
be right back.
BHM, you immediately defended, and I wasn't attacking Philippe. I was laughing about how deity like he was, and how expensive, when we have perfectly capable people here, in CanAdA.
Go CANADA gO!!
Relax those tentacles, would ya??
Dang cephalopods.
They never really just chill out.
Happy Belated Birthday too, ya goopy.
OH, I have manY theories about the thyroid, PF..
Dogs are sighing, spring can't be far.
Ooh, curious about your thyroid theories GL! (You can pm me them if more appropriate person to person vs. public blog). My email is on my profile.
Whole new thing for me. Just started my new "supplements" for that yesterday so I guess time will tell if makes a difference for me. I want my mom to get tested too, she has a lot of the same symptoms as me.
One word, PF, no secret here.
Environment.
Okay, huge word.
Plastics/paints/adhesives/solvents/exhaust-fumes/yup, maybe nicotine.
Our thyroid is a butterfly shaped endocrine gland in t'neck. Amazing thing.. It balances/regulates everything, very sensitive to changes in environment. imo.
My Mom was also hyper, and my mom's sister, so it may be genetic, or it may be genetic DAMAGE.
You know how testosterone is "disappearing"?
Frogs...
uh, oh, incoherence dinger went off.
Evolution fascinates me. People don't think it's happening NoW. But it is, and it has, and it will.
(People don't think genetics works that way, either.)
Dogs are insisting a further slog is necessary:)
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