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May. 21, 2013, 08:58 AM
I'm pretty sure these are the ones I bought earlier this year:...
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May. 16, 2013, 02:23 PM
I've taught boys and young men in therapeutic riding for years... and with propriety being what it is, I'm not going to have That Conversation with...
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May. 16, 2013, 01:17 PM
I have few regrets when it comes to horses, but I regret not injecting my teenage TB's hocks sooner, 'way back when I thought you needed to see spurs...
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May. 16, 2013, 01:09 PM
Someone gratefully paid me $100 to clip a Cushing's horse during a heat wave. I never would have charged her that much since I didn't do a very good...
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May. 16, 2013, 01:04 PM
Squirrels like bird seed. Dogs like squirrels.
My SO left a 5-gallon pail of birdseed on our screened porch one winter, and as soon as the...
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May. 16, 2013, 12:21 PM
My vet told me this week, "if you have to have a joint problem, a fetlock is a good joint to have problems with because it's very treatable and...
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May. 13, 2013, 07:06 AM
Sounds very much like a kid I know who's not at all in touch with reality... Sigh... I find that if I throw in little tidbits - "wow, my farrier...
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May. 9, 2013, 03:07 PM
Magnesium? lots and lots of it? only half kidding - my gelding is a much nicer guy with a huge dose of Remission and some sort of calming cookie...
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May. 9, 2013, 01:03 PM
Why not ask your instructor? Phrase it just like you did here, that you realize it's a change from your past way of doing things, and you just want...
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May. 9, 2013, 10:01 AM
Don't make rules. Take it family by family. Too many rules will come back to bite you in the butt - if your rule is that mom has to stay in the...
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May. 8, 2013, 08:46 PM
We did a little rearranging, but it's a really small house so there isn't much furniture to rearrange. We have had a couple "discussions" about the...
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May. 8, 2013, 12:06 PM
One year my mom sent a check for Christmas and it turned into a cat tree, like this:...
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May. 8, 2013, 11:01 AM
Do you know any of the 4H people in your area? sounds like you're looking for the "sadly outgrown" 4H horse who started Suzie in showmanship when...
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May. 8, 2013, 10:16 AM
My broad shouldered TB likes the older high neck weatherbeetas, with the shoulder gussets on the sides rather than the front. But his all time, best...
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May. 5, 2013, 07:49 PM
My gray event horse liked using poop for a pillow at events - not at home! We got good at early morning, minimal water sponge baths. Miracle groom...
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May. 5, 2013, 07:11 AM
We had a boarder who was sensitive to stuff and she asked people who used the crossties near her stall to spray their horses - with anything - in...
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May. 4, 2013, 09:48 PM
I just lost my 31-year-old. Even though he was healthy, I never would have considered shipping him any great distance. I remember the last year I...
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May. 4, 2013, 09:23 PM
Our old lady Labrador was pretty much the same at the end of her life. We learned after the fact that tramadol and alprazolam are not compatible,...
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May. 1, 2013, 01:53 PM
We have a cat with bone chips in her stifles and we were told we could probably get a surgical consult, but our vet wasn't hopeful that they would...
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May. 1, 2013, 01:05 PM
I used to have the same leaking problem with the 100 ml vials of acetyl-d from Wedgewood. Our vet was concerned about contamination and was...
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May. 1, 2013, 11:18 AM
I'm trying to gather my thoughts and collect all my questions for the vet when she calls back later today or tomorrow.
Learned yesterday that my...
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Apr. 29, 2013, 07:45 PM
Side note: Excede is cephalexin, which is related to penicillin. People who are sensitive to either of those drugs need to be careful with it. ...
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Apr. 25, 2013, 01:38 PM
I'm loving this conversation because it's such a great,spontaneous illustration of adult learning theory. I'm hearing people say the exact things we...
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Apr. 25, 2013, 11:23 AM
You can teach correct riding to kids, but you need to be aware that until they're around middle school age, the abstractions that are integral to...
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Apr. 24, 2013, 12:31 PM
I was in exactly the same situation a few years ago! decided I really wanted a fun horse that made me want to pay the board bills, and wanted...
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Apr. 24, 2013, 09:39 AM
Agree with the others - safety first. Don't put the child (I'm assuming it's a child?) and the horse in the situation where the horse can/will bolt...
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