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  • #61
    One time my neighhbor came over, very alarmed and concerned. She pointed at my horse' maroon tail bag, and said "his tail is soaked with blood"....

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    • #62
      My Mom really drives me crazy about feeding them. She doesn't understand why my uncles wife horses can go without being fed and why ours can't I try to explain because ours are WORKED and COMPETE and need extra but she just doesn't get it Then she can't understand why we must feed at about the same time everyday She has no idea about horses and she can drive me crazy sometimes.

      I also have people ask what do you do. I'll say c/t's

      whats that?

      Where you do dressage and jumping in one day and the points are put together to see who wins.

      what's dressage?

      Have you ever seen on tv the beautiful horses that do movements to music?

      Oh, yea you mean those trick horses
      OH Lord, I give up and go to I use to barrel race
      OH REALLY. At least they know what that is.
      Horses aren't our whole life, but makes our life whole

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      • #63
        Originally posted by BoldChance View Post
        Take away their water, though, and they'll shrink down to the size of a riding boot.


        Wow - that would make horsekeeping a heckuva lot easier - just dehydrate 'em and put 'em in a shoebox for later.
        Take 'em out, put in water and VOILA! Riding Horse!
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        • #64
          Originally posted by Jealoushe View Post
          So cute!
          Thanks!! I think so too, but then again, I'm biased

          Originally posted by theoldgreymare View Post
          Chinco is about a half hour or so from me....used to be a beautiful little place. You can actually visit a stuffed Misty if so inclined (bleccchhhh!).
          I feel that the stuffed Misty AND Stormy is a little too much for me to handle so I have never seen them. I second the bleccchhhh!

          I can't even imagine the kinds of questions that place gets regarding their stuffed ponies!!
          Proud mom of a Chincoteague Pony

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          • #65
            "They can't lie down or they'll die." I think this guy may have confused horses with those sharks who have to keep swimming so water will move over their gills. When DH told him he sees our horses lie down all the time, the know-it-all continued to insist that was impossible!

            My favorite was the guy who stopped at my farm recently to ask where someone lived. I told him, and he said, as he got back into the car, that he'd stopped at my place because he saw I had horses and he knows that all horse people are nice. Awwww. Although DH told me later that the reason the fellow needed directions was because his friend moved while he was in prison. But what the heck - he's still a good judge of character in my book.
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            • #66
              Originally posted by ellemayo View Post
              And I LOVE the first day when we get the kids grooming and leading the horses. We always sit down and I explain to them that when they hold onto the lead rope, the horse is going to follow them. That's what they're trained to do.
              Without fail, there is always at least one kid who gets out there, unties the horse, starts walking, SCREAMS when the horse turns to walk behind her, and tries to run away, still holding the lead rope! Usually the kid is walking backward at full speed, holding the lead rope out in front of them going "IT'S CHASING ME!"
              Of course the fantastic, patient horse is looking at me like "what the heck is this kid doing?"
              Most of the time I actually do start laughing at that point, and tell the camper to stop walking. As soon as she does, the horse stops right next to her.

              Definitely good for a laugh or two
              That's hysterical- thanks for the laugh!!!
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              • #67
                Last year my husband and I moved our 4 horses home to my family's cattle farm. No one around here has a clue what we do with our guys, why we do what we do, etc. We've blanketed a good bit this winter, and I just know everyone in the community is like, "They spoil those horses!"

                The de facto horse that most people have around here are walking horses. So whenver someone's at the house, they ask if our guys are walking horses. When I gently explain that they are TBs and European warmblood crosses, people get a dazed look in their eyes, then say brightly, "Well, I had a great ride on one of those walking horses one time. You should get some of those!"
                Some nights I stay up cashing in my bad luck; some nights I call it a draw. -- fun.

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                • #68
                  I was riding my 15 hand Arab on the road in front of my house. The neighbor and her two kids were walking. I stopped to talk to them and the mom was like fumbling all over herself to get away from the horse. Then she said "Oh my god I did not know horses were THAT BIG!!!!!"

                  Yeah. I told her this is a teenie one! They get about a foot + taller and 1000 pounds heavier than this one!

                  When I lived in TN, everyone assumed that our horses were Tennessee Walkers. (I mean naturally. Impossible to think you could get any other kind of horse in TN.) snort

                  And of course everyone wanted to know why we don't race the Thoroughbreds.

                  When talking to a co-worker about my Arab, he said "So Arabians come from Arabia?" No, this one is mixed bloodlines - Russian, and Egyptian. Her lineage hails from those two countries. "So then why is it called an Arabian? Shouldn't it be a Russian or an Egyptian?"

                  LMAO!

                  I also get a little tired of the stand up to sleep comments. People think its such a cool little chunk of trivia that horses never lay down! They're so proud that they know this little factoid..... Ugh.

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                  • #69
                    Originally posted by amastrike View Post
                    I hate the "I have a Thoroughbred" "yeah, but what BREED is it?" conversation.

                    Grandma: What kind of horse do you have?
                    Me: A Thoroughbred.
                    Grandma: But what kind is it?
                    Me: He's a Thoroughbred.
                    Grandma: But what breed?
                    Me: He's a Thoroughbred. It's a breed. Thoroughbred, Quarter horse, Arab...
                    Grandma: Oh, he's a thoroughbred Quarter horse?
                    Me: No, Grandma. I was listing breeds. Thoroughbred is a breed. Quarter horse is a breed.
                    Grandma:
                    Me:
                    I find it is SLIGHTLY easier to get through when you say something like, "He/She is a PUREBRED Thoroughbred, just as you have PUREBRED Arabians or PUREBRED Morgan Horses." SOME people finally grasp the distinction between Purebred (pedigree) versus Throughbred (a specific breed).

                    Sigh, of course, now I have an Araloosa. Try explaining THAT one. LOL

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                    • #70
                      Originally posted by Doodlebug1 View Post
                      I get the whole 'are they puppies' with my Jack Russells
                      Funny that they don't grasp the idea that part of the attraction of "toy" size adult dogs is that they are "forever puppies" for people who like that sort of thing. (There are other reasons for having a small dog - I have a MinPin), but the "puppyish" aspect is, I am sure, a big part of it for many people.

                      Now as for rental places, from hard experience I have learned to say, "I've ridden a little," and not say things like "I've evented to Prelim, have my own horse, and ride 5 or 6 times a week" BECAUSE if you tell them you are truly a rider, THEN THEY GIVE YOU THE WORST, I REFUSE TO MOVE, I'M GOING TO BALK, KICK, etc. BEHAVED HORSE IN THE STRING. If you just say you don't ride, or "ride a little" they give you a nice horse that just goes down the road without any muss or fuss.

                      I made the mistake of admitting I was an experienced rider up at Wawona in Yosemite, and got given a stocky little App that moved as a snail's pace, despite seat, legs, etc. urging him on.. I finally asked the guide to stop and broke a flexible branch off a tree (National Forest - I'm probably going to get arrested) to use as a crop. Even that wasn't much use, but at least it got him moving enough that I didn't have to kick every single step.

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                      • #71
                        Non-horsey friend points to my dapple rose-grey horse: "He's such a nice colour."

                        Me.: "Unfortunately, he won't stay that way, he'll eventually turn white."

                        I show her 20-year-old flea-bitten grey mare. "He'll look like this."

                        Friend points to other dapple grey horse: "Will this one stay grey?

                        I guess I wasn't clear in explaining the concept...

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                        • #72
                          Now as for rental places, from hard experience I have learned to say, "I've ridden a little," and not say things like "I've evented to Prelim, have my own horse, and ride 5 or 6 times a week" BECAUSE if you tell them you are truly a rider, THEN THEY GIVE YOU THE WORST, I REFUSE TO MOVE, I'M GOING TO BALK, KICK, etc. BEHAVED HORSE IN THE STRING. If you just say you don't ride, or "ride a little" they give you a nice horse that just goes down the road without any muss or fuss.

                          I've had the same experience. When I took my daughter riding in Sonoma she looked at me a little oddly when I said that I rode occassionally. She understood later when the perky blond who said, "I ride all the time" got the horse that dragged her to the water trough, only went backwards and finally tried to lie down! lol

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