WrongIsStillRight

This will be my last update for awhile, in regards to equines in automobile facilities. Pick up an issue of "HarrowSmith Country Life" and you'll see super expensive cars in a perfectly renovated gleaming "barn".

I guess the universe is balanced.

With the Derby coming and all, one wouldn't want to stir up too much umbrage against an already faltering industry. I wonder, I do, if they ever could go a little backwards, towards not breaking them until 3, not racing until 4, what would happen?

Would that tarnished image ever go away? I worked for one day, at the age of 18, at Windfields barn in Oshawa. I began my general dislike of the industry then. And that was Windfields, people, they did it perfectly right. Justabit too soon. The money, always back to the money. The volume required, to get that super-star, that fleetest of foot. The sheer volume of babies appalled me. It reminded me of my foreboding about people. There just seemed to be far too MANY of them.

I want to clear up a misconception, that kestrel made on the FHOTD Review.
The Racing Industry did not sell him into that garage. The Hunter-Jumper Industry did. In my eyes, the Wal-Mart horse/general economy put him there.

Meanwhile, BuffaloBob is in his back yard is climbing on His baby horsie. Heck, they do it to runners, don't they? Ayup, they do.

I will also repeat a comment I deleted on the Review, as it seemed to be lost in the cacophony of the FHOTD ire. Which I mostly get. I didn't start reading her because I disagreed with everything she said.
If you had a choice, which would you choose, as a neighbour? FHOTD, or my nightmare?
Seriously. This nightmare I have is EXACTLY why I am so tolerant of others ideas of humane. I'm living beside the lowest standard, sorry, NO standard.

I wish the horse and the neighbour the best of luck. I hope the horse does NOT end up the way I predict. Please, please. The woman is the very model of what we've done to poor, maybe challenged people. We've marginalized them, laughed at them, abused them. What right does this woman have to own animals/horses? The very same as you or me.

Believe me, please. I have Tried to "love thy ...". Didn't get me very far.

If this woman had been shown enough kindness, early enough, she could have ended as my cousin has, maybe living in a group home, safe. Maybe. And/Or out working, honestly. She has a good enough intellect to understand how to work our system to her advantage.
She has a "flip" side to her that frightens me. She's probably slightly mentally-ill. (Hey, who isn't??) She puts on an act of mentally slow. I do not think she is that slow. She has no means of support that we can see. But an extension of goodwill is met with a "taking over". My, place. My life. Any rebuttal is met with disbelief. She's like the SeaGulls in "Finding Nemo". MInE? miNe?

Where her mare is kept, the kindly couple have initiated horse-eviction proceedings, wide-eyed and horrified they even have to do such a thing. They are nice people. They did a nice thing. That mare is now safe, up to and including 30 days after the registered letter is RECEIVED. The kindly couple are required by law to feed the animal now. Not just out of kindness, which they've been doing for two years, whenever they'd notice the mare wasn't fed..
I have such disgust for the cruelty this woman has wrought upon another bunch of nice People.
Try getting a registered letter to someone who is never home at the same time each day. Ever.

The seller, (H/J industry) thinks I'm the NutBar. How could I say such things about another horsey human being? One who obviously loves horses, old Chief was very friendly to her in the field. Well, he's never met this woman before. Look at his face below. That's fear hinting through, people. And of course, I over anthropomorphize, with my FOOLISH notion, that horses should be allowed to have movement and fresh air.

Oh, of Course, he does! Neighbour says so. It must be true. Never have seen any more hoof sign. He never has to leave that stall. At all. That is legal. OSPCA got quite shrill about it. Not that I wasn't being totally nutso myself, the police had just called me. (Did I tell you that story?) Cannot remember.

I truly hope everything goes well. It's just that my husband and I have watched this terrible cycle for close to 20 years. This woman has done this to (almost) everyone in this VERY horsey community, (only the mostly lah-dee-dah of them ALL) except of course to the seller.

She was helpful to the kindly older couple for almost a year? Then, it became Her Place, and they were the renters. She came over at all hours, or did not come at all. They asked her to look after the property last fall, when they came back, the shite was to the rafters. These are tidy, clean, nice people. They know NOTHING about horses, but they know the horse in the garage is wrong, and they want the horse on their property OUT, because where mare is staying, is also wrong, to them.
It isn't illegal, though.

The kindly couple asked her to move the mare last October. The mare's pasture fencing has been removed. Her pen is now just the cattle's pen. About as big as a 10meter circle. Three strides or so. It's a palace, compared to...

I have been told by the OSPCA that there is nothing they can do, of course. The horse is not in distress. Woman had the vet in to see him yesterday, husband reported.
I received a note from the seller (H/J) saying only "Hi. Chief is for sale for $500.00"
I answered, could you???? I was ready to get him, right then and there, as you all will have guessed.

H/J seller replied later "Oh, sorry, I am not selling him. Somebody saw an ad at the track. I called Woman, she said the ad was misread, he is not for sale. She had the vet there for coggins and shots, said the horse seemed very happy".
I didn't ask if SHE had been by to visit him. Why bother?
I smell a bit of a set-up. I have to back away, and go back to life with an invisible neighbour, and now, an invisible horse.
For all I know, this IS a set-up, neighbour's going to sell him for enough to pay off enough debt that she can move the mare, into the garage. Let's just see what happens though, okay?
Same bat-channel, indeed.

That this woman is even in this horse community, convinces me ever more, to stay out. I can't be trying to buy every animal she neglects. I'm not dripping cash, who is??
The attitude that barn help isn't worth the horse owners time of day is really starting to bite 'em in the arse. Looks good on the wealthy fools. Quality Shite-Shovelers of the World, Unite!!

Thanks for being there with me, my dearest, most patient reader. I warned you about her, way back when, when I was being a PITA on the FHOTD comments. Yeah, it could be worse, I said. It could always be worse.

I'm so sorry as well, that Chief's story is so disjointed. I've posted quite a bit more on the Chronicle forum, but I'm done, now.

This story IS hard to follow, and I'm living it. It's so ridiculous, that it's nothing else but true. Hard to write the book when the story ain't finished yet. It never does, and MAN, would I like it to!!!

My dogs will be very happy with me for this step back. I have not been able to focus on them the way they deserve,for 22 days. Thank you, Sunshine. Distractions are an excellent technique.
Back to my life.

Still sans cheval.

Over and out.