| Subject: Jerry, Didn't Want You To Miss My Reply To Your Post Below |
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Date Posted: 08:36:38 08/23/10 Mon
Jerry, If you had read my original post I think you would have seen that my horses are my pleasure, not my business. I have made it clear that I am not a working cow-hand, avid showman or professional trainer....did-ja miss that? I did all that stuff when my back would let me, but that was then and this is now!
I missed the part where I was whining, perhaps you'll point it out to me??? Was it the money? As well you know, people can spend tens of thousands of $$ showing, campaigning and competing with a SINGLE horse, you pick the discipline. My monetary level is where it is enjoyable, pretty much ideal for the horses and gives me pleasure within my budget & locale. By the way I said "Some folks do it cheaper", not "The only ones". Perhaps reading my written lines instead of trying to read between them would promote a "more harmonious outcome".
Vet work? Let me see, I worm, I give shots (all), I've dressed wounds, treated thrush, helped birth stuck foals,(2) and even had to help the vet cut a dead foal out of a friends mare. Am I a vet or farrier? Nope, but I can trim a hoof as well as the next man out of necessity, can't guarantee perfect alignment or balance, but good none the less. I figure it's best to let the pro's do what they get paid for and keep me from screwing my horses up. I've seen plenty of examples of "cowboy's" laming their horses doing their own hoof/shoeing work.
About broken and worn out gear, well, shit happens when you own and use something 20+ years. Nylon wears out and buckles break (Aussie saddle overgirth). About the bosal and stuff, well there was a real good reason that involved a family member and they're embarrassed enough so I won't post it on the internet, but hell, it just ain't none of your damn business anyhow is it?!
Perhaps you are blessed by living in area where ALL horses are treated right, given shelter, proper food and water, trained and used properly and all can expect a good retirement or humane death after their working lives are done. That's just not the case in either Oregon or Idaho. Where's this horse heaven you call home? The real world isn't quite as nice or cheap as you'd like to believe for the rest of us.
Any problems with what I've writen, please send me a PM and I'll give you my ph# so we can talk this out in private.
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 Re: Jerry, Didn't Want You To Miss My Reply To Your Post Below -- fuzzy, 15:34:17 08/22/10 Sun
- By The Way Jerry, I mean't , Bosal, Mecate & Fidor....guess you Missed That Blooper, Or Didn't You Notice it? -- Thumper, 16:36:10 08/22/10 Sun
- Re: Jerry, Didn't Want You To Miss My Reply To Your Post Below -- Jerry, 22:25:17 08/22/10 Sun
- I am at a loss for words. -- Uncle Lee, 04:04:52 08/23/10 Mon
- My $.02 -- arcom (not dat it's worth much), 06:06:25 08/23/10 Mon
- Re: Jerry, Didn't Want You To Miss My Reply To Your Post Below -- Thumper, 08:25:28 08/23/10 Mon
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