.....the same kind of person who would consider killing their family horse because it is no longer useful to them.
This kind of stuff really pisses me off. This pony obviously served her family very well, and now that she is not longer useful to them, they are going to have her killed!!! And to make matters worse, these cowardly people decide to play upon the emotions of the horse loving community!
arghhhhh!!!!!
FREE PONY or be put down UPDATE! (Weare, NH)
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Date: 2010-07-10, 9:39AM EDT
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I have someone who has committed to take her on 7/19. Thank you ALL who has offered to help. There are a lot of very loving people out there. (Apparently, you are not one!!)
Welsh/TB Mare Approx 12 yrs, 14 hands, Blue Roan. Been diagnosed with soft tissue damage in front right hoor, needs 6 months to a year of stall rest. Will let you talk to vet. She's a GREAT mare, very loving. She's done Pony Hunters in 07 & 08. Daughter went on to horses but rode her consistantly. Too nice of a pony to put down, PLEASE help this pony.
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It's been a long time since my last post. Many things going on - major life changes, which I won't go into, but life is back on track (sort of) and I'm feeling the urge to blog! Yipee!! My next post will be some interesting facts picked up from the recent National Geographic. Stay tuned....
Saturday we had a Junior Girl Scout Troop in from Pacific Beach to earn their "Horse Fan" Badge. During one of the activities, we bring out Jack, a very quiet and complacent horse, to take weight & height measurements; listen to heart & gut sounds; and record respiration. It was during this little workshop that we notice Jack had a nasty gash on his...and here's the technical term...armpit! Called the doctor on call, who soon arrived to fix him up. Of course, I wouldn't miss an opportunity to catch this on video!
What I like about this video, is that it shows so much "humanness" going on around: like the doctor's phone ringing "American Beauty"; then one of his kids, that he brought with him, quietly announces he has to go to the bathroom! And then, you hear text massages coming in on my iPhone! All in the space of 30 seconds!
Then, the doctor asks me to "use both hands" i.e. stop videoing and put the camera down!! to hold the horse while he stitches him up. Thus ends my epic documentary on "just an other day in the life of horse-human non-parallel relationships".
I know, generally speaking, chicks love horses, but the whole senario laid out in this email to me is disturbing...
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From Ingrid LeMasters: "I\'m sending this to all riders who helped with our TIER fundraising CTC on March 13. ACTHA has registered with the Guinness Book of World Records to stage the largest 1-day trail riding competition on record. This is ACTHA\'S announcement and description of the event: \"IT\'S OFFICIAL, GUINNESS BOOK OF WORLD RECORDS HAS ACCEPTED OUR APPLICATION TO SET A WORLD RECORD FOR THE LARGEST ONE DAY TRAIL RIDING COMPETITION...EVER! (Actually maybe the largest trail ride ever...gotta check the Punic wars!) ACTHA, with the marketing assistance of the Humane Soceity of the United States, will be sanctioning at least one ride, in every state....ON THE SAME DAY! That day is June13th, 2010! Mark your calendars and be part of history! Over 2,500 trail riders and their mounts will be RIDING FOR THE RESCUES!!! It\'s too early to give you many more details but I do know we\'ll be having a special sign up page at www.actha.us to keep the attempt organized and to comply with Guinness\'s observer rules and certifications. Your local media will be covering your ride as well. I also know ACTHA will have some pretty exciting options for you when you sign up! So far we\'re talking about commemorative belt buckles very attractively priced thanks to ACTHA sponsor Molly\'s Custom Silver! Also you will be able to sign up for a certificate from Guinness commemorating your attempt and another if we are successful! Most importantly we hope to raise over $100,000 for horses in dire need NOW! In one day! That\'s the power of the Trail Rider and the \"not JUST a trail horse anymore\" horses of ACTHA!!! All ride proceeds, even your local rider managers fees are going into the Rescue Pot! (Make sure you give your local ride manager a good pat on the back!) But you\'ll still be riding for the $1,200 in ACTHA Bucks at every event! And heaven knows what our sponsors are going to come up with as extras!\" **** I\'ve registered a ride with ACTHA for that date, and am co-hosting it at Marshall Canyon in La Verne with Richard & Carmen of Oak Knoll Ranch. Richard was actually the first California affiliate to reserve the date, but he has agreed to move his event north and combine our rides, to avoid conflicting with a joint ACTHA/CSHA competition that is scheduled for the same weekend. If you aren\'t competing in Anza on the 12th -13th of June, I\'d like to invite you to participate in the SoCal Guinness Ride with us. Details are available on the ACTHA ride page (there is not a separate page for this project, yet)."
"Hello Instructor, Its good to see your riding instructor service here online and i have to tell you i will be glad to have an insight on your coaching and how my son can get riding instruction there next month when he is back in the state. I will like to know the duration for the training while i bring to your notice that he is 15yrs but growing passion for riding sense outrageously. I think your riding instruction service will be of a great help.He is a curious learner with submissive mind when corrected.He's got other skills related to gymnastics naturally and i can see i should help him develop this gift through your teaching service. Get back to me with the following..... Duration: Tuition fee for the tutor: your full names: Addresses: Tel: Zip: NOTE:I want you to note that i will pay the tution with a check or money order you will receive prior my son's arrival in the locality of your riding institute. Looking forward to read from you soon. Dr Dullah"
"Hello, My Name is Karen Morris. I got your contact displayed on a website while surfing for an instructor for my 16yrs old Daughter. My daughter will be vacationing in the US for 3 month starting from April 2010,so therefore I want to secure your services in giving my Daughter some sporting instructions during her stay there. So to that effect,I will like to know your pricing and schedule as regards the lesson? Waiting your response. Regards Karen"
Almost every time it rains, I loose some hay. Either bottom hay gets muddy and molds or top hay gets rained on and molds. So today, I got this cargo container delivered! I'm so excited...water and rodent proof and holds 100 bales of hay!! Yipee!
Yeah, I know it's ugly, but boy, is it functional! (Plus it's a nice little wind breaker for Jack!)
Highly recommend it, and I don't know why I didn't think about it sooner - could have saved a lot of money on moldy hay and rotting chicken scratch.
This one was delivered by Allied Containers in San Diego, who were really great to work with. (I do not recommend Aztec Containers, whom I initially dealt with, but they never return calls, never followed up on promised information, and when ever I talked with them, they didn't have a clue that we'd ever spoken before!! After two weeks of this run around, I switched and got immediate service from Allied Containers.)
Drop off and pick-up is $95 each way and you must pay this fee up front, plus one month's rent which is $65/month. So total today, with taxes, was $260.
Now all I have to obsess about when it rains is the horses standing in mud!
Last night, the wind blew the tarp off my mountain of hay bales. I recently spent over $800 on 60 bales; they were all neatly stacked and covered with a tarp. They had already suffered damage from the muddy ground and were molding on the bottom bales; and last night the wind and rain took it's toll again! When I went down this morning the hay bales were uncovered and soaking wet!! Waaaaaa!!! I hate the rain!!!!
Tomorrow, at the urging of Robert, I will call Aztec Containers and rent a small cargo container to store my hay in. Won't take much for it to pay for itself.
Here's a picture of my muddy white horse (Tommy Boy) this morning. I was too distraught to take a picture of the hay!! (Actually, I just didn't think about it...maybe tomorrow...)
"Hello There,
I'm Brian White from Los Angeles CA,I am moving down to your state (Down to your state???? Didn't Brian say he was from Los Angeles, CA??? Duh?! Maybe a news report should know his geography) and i will like to board my horse willie for four months before they get my barn done,i am a news reporter and i got busy schedules (If he's a news report, don't you think he'd know English grammer a little better?!?!) with travelling to gather news information, I have the coggin and health certificate,i will need a full stall boarding or a pasture for the four months,Let me know the price and any other requirement ... Boarding Date: 12/05/09 Let me know if you will be able to accomodate my horse with any available space.pls get back to me with price per month..
Looking forward to read from you
Regards
Brian"
OMG!! Can you believe this? It's right up there with the millions of dollars I'm waiting for from a long lost relative's closest friend who died of complications from lingering cancer in Nigeria!! HA!!!
So....here's Jack happily playing in the water during his first ever trail ride to Santa Margarita River...
(Some of you may have already seen this video because as soon as I upload it to YouTube it feeds into Facebook and a myriad of other ethereal locations.)
A mere4 hours later, we've got the top head honcho vet called from his supper to treat Jack for "colic"!! No joke! This same horse playfully pawing the pool this afternoon, was writhing on the ground this evening! At one point (the point I decided to call the doctor) he fell to the ground, his eyes rolled up into his head, upper lipped curled and legs splayed straight out - almost like he was convulsing! Dr. Colburn (who did not sign a media release so you will not be seeing his cheery face here tonight; no, he will not be claiming his fame on "Backyard Horse and Rider" blogspot!like his colleague Dr. Bender from last night!! LOL! I should own stock in their company!) gave Jack a sedative, listened to gut sounds and a few other things vets do for a colicky horse - final diagnosis - gas!! Yes...gas!
I wonder if he got it from drinking the water at Santa Margarita River?
Yesterday - Challenge, a 20 yr old Arabian gelding, come out of the upper turn-out with a nasty wound to his right stifle. We thought it was a bite mark from the young interloper, Flash, who was out to steal Challenge's new gal pal, Dolly. Jessika cleaned and dressed the wound and put Challenge to bed in his own paddock to recoup.
Today - Wound not doing any better and on closer inspection looks more like a puncture wound. Challenge moves lamely, dragging right hind hoof, and the stifle area is swollen and tender to touch.
Vet is called out and arrives pronto. Dr Bender who loves a "challenge" works deftly in the dark and even stops to strike a pose for the iphone video. He knows his work will be all over YouTube tonight (I made him sign a waiver)
Challenge is given standing sedation before doc begins poking around, but it is apparent he can still feel quite a bit!! And he's not liking it!! Especially when doc pokes his finger in the wound and moves it around looking for foreign debris (or a rise from the audience)
Yes, I know this video goes on for seven and a half minutes....in the dark...in the gore...
But you don't want to miss.. 0:58 doc hams it up and strikes a pose 1:27 doc sticks his finger in the hole (up to his wrist?!)
Anyhow...seems Challengeimpaled himself on a stake in the turn-out.
Ok, pics of the wound tomorrow in broad day light!!
It seems that many horse people I run into have a tale or two to tell about a narcoleptic horse. Up until a few weeks ago, I had never heard of such a thing - now it's about as common as thrush!!
A few days ago, while shopping in REINs tack shop, I met a friend who had her own story of narcolepsy - I add it here hoping to accrue pieces to a puzzling equine aliment.
The horse in question was her daughter's, brought to UC Davis and boarded there in the riding program. The horse began exhibiting odd behavior (falling over, unexplained cuts) and was brought into the UC Davis large animal veterinary clinic for testing and hopefully diagnosis (the horse had a great career in eventing). The horse was strapped up for testing and the owner was quieting him by messaging his gums when the horse fell into a narcoleptic fit! He was promptly diagnosed with narcolepsy much to the excitement of attending vets. About the only thing else that showed up under mountains of testing was the horse had a calcium deficiency. This horse was 17 years old, never had any signs of narcolepsy until he was moved to UC Davis and diagnosed with a calcium deficiency.
A piece to the puzzle or totally nonsequitur....you decide!
Because, it's a tattoo of horses, of course!! And not just any horses!! As you can see, they have the Celtic knots - so they're Irish Horses! Yeah!!! And see all those freckles on my back?? Guess what? I'm Irish, too!!! Yeah!!!
Technically, this blog is about "Horse and Rider" (so, I'm the rider) and three of my horses already have their own tattoos!!! (LOL!!)
I have another year and a half until my second son turns 18 and I promised him I'd get a tattoo with him, too!!! Time to forget the pain! (My daughter said, "no way!", but she's only 11)
Certainly, alot of women are getting tattoos. I hadn't really given it much thought until the day before my son's 18th birthday, when he announced he was getting a tattoo for his birthday and would I like to get one with him? Fool, I said "yes" and he held me to it.
So, here's what the illustrious Drew Barrymore had to say about getting tattoos - oh, the sheer exhilaration of it - "I let him do it. And it felt so good. God, that pain is like nothing else in the world. And it's so sexual, too, you know? I mean, after it's done you just want to go and drive a car off a cliff or something, you know?" (huh?!)
Well, I'll agree with the pain thing, but the sex and driving a car off the cliff??!! Come on, Drew!!! I don't know...does any body else agree with Drew?
We've had Dolly going on two months now. She came to us with a friend, Sammy. Dolly is a 9 year old 3/4 Arab, 1/4 Quarter Horse; chestnut and beautiful. She has been recovering from an abscess, and seems to be doing fine, now. She's been out on trail twice in the last week, and it was a challenge to get her to cross water. However, she's a fast learner and is going through deep water now with barely a hesitation. She's jumpy and doesn't really trust her riders, although she likes people very much. In the arena, where much of the training goes on, she picked up free lounging quickly, then lounge line, but she always had a very pronounced counter bend i.e. she'd always be looking to the outside of the circle she was on, instead of flexing slightly inward at the poll. So, here she is, her first day in side reins....
She's looking so much better! Although not all together yet, she's much more collected, with her head down, slightly flexed inward, and back up. You can see she struggles to hold her frame. She's out of shape and being asked to use muscles that haven't been used in awhile! Very smart horse - she'll get it. Oh, and my farrier says she the best prospect for endurance riding. (He didn't have much good to say about Harley - "weak stifles; narrow base"; nor Sammy, my other Arab, who has "duck feet" and is still resting up from pulled ligament.)
In my never ending quest to help Jack, I called in a new chiropractor (that I met "by chance" - nothing is by chance! - at the Bonsall Farmers' Market last week) in hopes that she would be able to find just the right spot that will help pull Jack out of his spiraling doldrums.
Well...I do think Dr. Fletcher solved a very important part of the puzzle to Jack's continuing listlessness, dull coat...depression!
Watch the video....!
Dr. Fletcher continued mulling over Jack's condition long after she left the barn - as did I - and here is input from the "Facebook" consortium:
"O.K. Today I saw a beautiful young Thoroughbred that I'm 99% sure has narcolepsy. This is the 3rd horse I've seen with narcolepsy (2 with definitive diagnoses), yet this is supposed to be pretty rare in equines. Anyone else have any experiences with narcolepsy in horses?
Narcolepsy is an incurable, nonprogressive central nervous system disorder characterized by abnormal sleep tendency including excessive daytime sleepiness. In narcolepsy muscle relaxation intrudes abruptly into wakefulness. This muscle weakness produces a collapse, or cataplexy, which is the most obvious sign of narcolepsy. The disease is seen in horses of all ages. Although complete attacks occur, most horses remain standing, with their heads hanging and resting close to or on the ground. Complete attacks may occur and result in the horse lying on its side with flaccid limbs. These episodes last from a few seconds to 10 minutes. The horse appears completely normal following these sleep attacks with no residual neurologic deficits.
Sleep deprivation is often mis-diagnosed as narcolepsy. In narcoleptic horses, the sudden onset of REM sleep usually occurs during periods of inactivity--while the horse is in his stall, at pasture, or standing relaxed in a run-in shed. Typically, the horse will drop his head quite low and spread his front legs for balance while his hindquarters sag. The horse's eyes might be closed or half-open, and movement (REM) is visible. Most horses remain standing during attacks, but some, particularly ponies, sit on their haunches and might roll on their sides. Attacks can last from a few seconds to 10 minutes.
REM Sleep REM sleep can only be achieved when lying down. Horses that either can’t or won’t lie down may be at risk for sleep deprivation. Dr. Joe Bertone, Professor of Equine Medicine at Western University of Health Sciences, studies sleep deprivation. He reports that horses need between 30 and 60 minutes of REM sleep each day, and that after 7 to 14 days of being deprived of this sleep will begin to fall asleep (collapse) at odd times, without notice. If your horse shows signs of sleep deprivation, check:his/her ability to lie down physically. Is he in pain? Does he have trouble getting up? His environment. Is it always noisy? Hectic? Loud? Emotional issues. Too nervous to lie down? Afraid of not being able to rise?"
"....If Jack startles awake every time he tries to take a nap so that he doesn't lose his balance or go down from his "stay apparatus" being overridden, just think how sleep-deprived he must be....he may be going around in pretty much a "fog" most of the time." Oh, poor Jack!!! That does sound just like him!!! Search "YouTube" and you can find other videos of narcoleptic horses!
After all we've done to try to help Jack, this definitely makes all the pieces to the puzzle fall neatly together. As bad as I feel for Jack, it's great to know we finally (probably) have a clue what's wrong with him!!
"Horses are not nasty, mean, naughty or malevolent, they are just plain confused and the blame rests fairly on our own shoulders. We have a moral responsibility to train them as best we can." - Dr. Andrew McLean, Australian Equine Behaviour Center.
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