This is how it starts

 
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Post by coalnewbie » Wed. Apr. 03, 2019 9:27 am

and so a wasted life starts ... don't ask me how I know.

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Post by Sunny Boy » Wed. Apr. 03, 2019 9:53 am

I had four daughters do that with their cousin's horses. :D

Then I had the privilege of paying for years of riding lessons for all four. :o

Number two daughter really took to wanting a horse. We sat through many auctions with me trying to convince her that the cheapest thing about a horse is buying it. It only gets much more expensive after that.

Now that they are out on their own, only # 2 has stayed with horses. But, with a four year degree in equine business, she learned to have friends who have the horses, trailer, and truck, for whenever she wants to spend a day in the Adirondacks trail riding ;)

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Post by warminmn » Wed. Apr. 03, 2019 10:01 am

Theres a very long horse trail a few miles from me thru and around a state park. i bet 75% of the rural folks around me have horses because of the trails. Ive done quite a bit of riding but dont anymore. I like watching them, but mostly Amish work horses and races on TV. I cant imagine the feed bill anymore, plus the vet bills if needed. That child is doomed :lol:

 
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Post by tsb » Wed. Apr. 03, 2019 11:41 am

Dog food, baseballs and glue !
Don't ask me how I know !

 
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Post by Sunny Boy » Wed. Apr. 03, 2019 11:51 am

warminmn wrote:
Wed. Apr. 03, 2019 10:01 am
Theres a very long horse trail a few miles from me thru and around a state park. i bet 75% of the rural folks around me have horses because of the trails. Ive done quite a bit of riding but dont anymore. I like watching them, but mostly Amish work horses and races on TV. I cant imagine the feed bill anymore, plus the vet bills if needed. That child is doomed :lol:
Same around here.

We have State land (15K acres) near here with 130 miles of groomed and marked trails, plus camping grounds set up for horses and trailers. Many of the land owners bordering it have horses. Number two daughter's best friend she grew up with, has 200 acres and a couple of horses, right on the edge of the trail system. They still go riding there.

Plus, she has another friend that she rides with that trailers two horses up to state trails in the Adirondacks.

Irony is, daughter recently had a house built on 15 acres that the first floor is a stable and hay storage - but has still not bothered to get a horse yet. :D

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Post by rberq » Thu. Apr. 04, 2019 8:46 am

That's a cute kid film clip, but aren't there horses that would literally bite her head off?
I'm scared of them. Too big. My wife grew up with them and thinks they're great.

 
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Post by warminmn » Thu. Apr. 04, 2019 10:46 am

rberq wrote:
Thu. Apr. 04, 2019 8:46 am
That's a cute kid film clip, but aren't there horses that would literally bite her head off?
I'm scared of them. Too big. My wife grew up with them and thinks they're great.
Horses that are around people a lot are usually fine. Yes, some are meaner than others. In one of my friends stables there was one horse that tried to bite me every chance it got, but only me, nobody else. They sense and smell things. In this horses case, I think it smelled wild game animals on me from exotic game farms. Some dogs hated me too because of that. No animal really ever bothered me accept cougars walking figure 8's between my legs and that still puts shivers up my spine thinking about it. Their eyes look thru you.

Spend some time with trained Shetland ponies and you'll lose your fear of horses. They are harmless.


 
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Post by rberq » Thu. Apr. 04, 2019 12:29 pm

warminmn wrote:
Thu. Apr. 04, 2019 10:46 am
No animal really ever bothered me accept cougars walking figure 8's between my legs and that still puts shivers up my spine thinking about it.
That story needs more than one line. Do tell. Cougars (plural?) walking between your legs? Were you in a circus?

 
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Post by Richard S. » Thu. Apr. 04, 2019 12:48 pm

I always used to take this one dog on weekend excursions into the woods. Two guys came riding up on horses and the dog is acting like "oh cool, really large dogs to meet". The dog never saw a horse before, I started yelling at her so she wouldn't go near the horse and the guy on the horse kind of waved me off. They sniffed noses and that was pretty much the end of it.

 
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Post by coalnewbie » Thu. Apr. 04, 2019 1:19 pm

Just inject the drug straight into the vein. No hope.

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Post by Freddy » Thu. Apr. 04, 2019 1:25 pm

Cute clip! We had a horse or two for 15 years or so. Then one day Marty got tossed & broke her back. We kept the horses for another year or two, but she never rode again.

Other than the extremely wealthy, everyone that has horses, eventually, does not have horses.

 
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Post by warminmn » Thu. Apr. 04, 2019 1:41 pm

rberq wrote:
Thu. Apr. 04, 2019 12:29 pm
That story needs more than one line. Do tell. Cougars (plural?) walking between your legs? Were you in a circus?
I was visiting a game farm and he raised them. like a dummy I went in the cage with him and that thing did figure 8's around my legs the whole time the owner was doing something in the cage. Ever see a cougars eyes? No thanks, I'll take my chances with CN's horses :lol: Wolves, bears, they are nothing but no more cougars. Lots of animals like to run between and around your legs if they are tame. its the semi-tame animals you have to worry about as they dont have any fear of you but dont like you either.

Cute 2nd video too CN. Nothing will hook a kid quicker than that.

 
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Post by Rob R. » Thu. Apr. 04, 2019 4:56 pm

The first time I touched a horse I broke out in hives. Lucky for me.

 
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Post by CapeCoaler » Thu. Apr. 04, 2019 11:12 pm

Horses and boats....
Good to have friends that own them...

 
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Post by Vbull » Fri. Apr. 05, 2019 8:20 am

They used to serve us horse on occasion at the plant I was working at in Mexico.
Not bad if you had sharp teeth and went well with salsa and hot sauce.


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