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    Horse grooming thread

    Love this! Anything that involves making useful things out of stuff you already have, is right up my alley.
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    What made you happy today?

    I started volunteering at a hippotherapy barn a few months ago, with the intention of taking care of the horses since that's what I love and have a lot of experience with. Turns out, they have a huge need for people to help out with therapy sessions for the clients, and though I have very little...
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    Horse grooming thread

    I can't wait until it's warm enough to give them an actual shampoo bath.
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    Horse grooming thread

    I've been doing a major shedding groom once a week since early March, and each time I get a full muck bucket full of horse hair!
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    Horse grooming thread

    Wow, those look wonderful!
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    Irresponsible cat neighbors?

    Same here, I forgot that fluffy black Sarah turned out to have a microchip, but it wasn't registered to anybody. No clue how that happened, but I was able to register the number in my name on a generic microchip site.
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    Irresponsible cat neighbors?

    The other thing they sometimes do is a green tattoo on the tummy to designate they are neutered. We have two cats, one was a feral ginger 5-month-old kitten (Pumpkin) who our late dog invited to live here three years ago. The other is a fluffy black former barn cat, Sarah. Our vet (who is...
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    Irresponsible cat neighbors?

    Can you touch and pet the mother cat, or is she too skittish? Does she let you pick up her babies? My suggestion is to get the collar off the mum, take her to the vet and get her spayed, then keep her and find a way to get good homes for the kittens. "sell them before the vaccines" !!! Do...
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    Horses!

    I hope my goals are not too much of a downer for you folks - it's just the reality of doing the best I can for my senior horses - but my goal is that I recognize the right time to say goodbye to them, before their enjoyment of life is gone. It might not happen in 2025, but it will be soon...
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    Horses!

    That's sad, but it's nice she got to have a new friend to love and admire her in her last days.
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    How can I fix this

    There's nothing wrong with him being special to you and you wanting to keep him as your flock rooster... but the bond you had with him when he was a youngster has to change. He's a big boy now, he's ready to be the flock boss, no longer your little boy. You've done nothing wrong! But now...
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    horse fell to her knees...

    I would definitely check for an abcess or something else wrong in the opposite front foot.
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    Horses!

    I've never owned a chestnut/sorrel, but always heard people say Chestnuts are more feisty, especially "Red Mares." I've ridden a few, they seemed average feistiness to me, but those of you who have red mares, do you think this is true?
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    Horses!

    Call me boring, but my favorites are black, dark bay, and plain red bay. I also love Appys, though. I'm one of those "a good horse is never a bad color" people, but I would never want to own a grey or cremello, because not only are they hard to keep clean, they tend to be susceptible to...
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    Horses!

    Some Morgans are gaited!
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