Harry horse & Charlie adventures! Horse chat & much more! Everyone welcome!

[Yorkshire Coop]

Sounds delightful Wishing

 

[Wishing4Wings]

Sounds delightful Wishing

It is. Still rather have some rain!

Glad the pup is doing better.

 

[Wishing4Wings]

Sounds delightful Wishing

Here is a little spring for you!

 

[Yorkshire Coop]

Thanks Wishing! Sun, blue sky and some colour! Makes me feel better already

 

[N F C]

No spring here yet either Kim. In fact, we had snow yesterday.

Glad to hear Keeper is still on the mend and no set backs. Let us know how his appointment Friday goes!

 

[TwoCrows]

Good to hear things are going well up there Kim!

Harry looks like he sure is enjoying a good roll! And why is it that horse ointments and supplies smell so good? I don't care for the smell of dog shampoos or chicken meds, but horse supplies? Good smells there!

Thanks for sending some rain our way. It's been lighly raining here since yesterday. We haven't had any rain since mid summer last year so this is much awaited and needed. But wow, it's been so long since it rained, it smells so weird out there.

Kim, give all your critters hugs for me.

 

[Yorkshire Coop]

No spring here yet either Kim. In fact, we had snow yesterday.

Glad to hear Keeper is still on the mend and no set backs. Let us know how his appointment Friday goes!

We had hail stones today

Good to hear things are going well up there Kim!

Harry looks like he sure is enjoying a good roll! And why is it that horse ointments and supplies smell so good? I don't care for the smell of dog shampoos or chicken meds, but horse supplies? Good smells there!

Thanks for sending some rain our way. It's been lighly raining here since yesterday. We haven't had any rain since mid summer last year so this is much awaited and needed. But wow, it's been so long since it rained, it smells so weird out there.

Kim, give all your critters hugs for me.

He does love to roll Leyla! In fact I’m sure he does it so I have it all to brush off!

Don’t know what it is with horse smells but they are so attractive! Tack/equestrian stores always have a nice smell to them too

You have rain That’s another smell I like! Always fresh smelling when it’s not rained for a while.

 

[TwoCrows]

Yes, I can remember washing my horse down, getting him dry, then turning him out only to watch him head for the first mud puddle he came to. He was a white Appaloosa. There was no keeping him clean.

 

[ShrekDawg]

When I still rode horses, there was this white horse there named Bubba. I think they said he was a Quarter Horse but he was huge, like 16 hands. He was white but sometimes more of a cream color. He was like 24 or slightly older.

ANYWAY.

He was a really good boy but there was this one time they said they had like just given him a bath and he went and got pee all over himself! I don't know if he rolled or what but he had all these yellow pee stains and maybe poop too all over him.

And also they thought that he liked and preferred being dirty. I think he did because whenever he would get clean, he would go roll in something and get dirty again immediately or within just a few minutes!

I also have come to the conclusion that there is no keeping white horses or even just lighter colored horses clean! It is just not happening.

Also, I haven't given my dog a bath in forever plus he doesn't really do it now anyway but he used to go roll in the grass or even the DIRT (we have a few dirt patches) immediately after bathing!!

Thankfully he is black so it doesn't show but it is gross!

One time fairly recently, I think maybe over the summer, he did that and I had to bath him again.

He has these two dirt holes that he likes to literally dust bathe in (he's a weirdo) and so he went to one and started dust bathing after I gave him this bath. And I told him, I don't know why you're doing that because now I'm just going to have to give you a second bath!

So now usually he had to be on a short leash the whole time and brought inside immediately and towel dried. No staying out in the sun and grass to dry because he will get muddy.

Also, another time on a walk he went into the cranberry bogs. I don't know if you have those in England but they have these channels in them when they're dry and not flooded. (They flood them to collect the cranberries.

Here is a picture.

https://goo.gl/images/miyMne

But often the water level can be lower or the trail higher.

Like these.

https://goo.gl/images/zcjKUZ

https://goo.gl/images/HJNXP5

https://goo.gl/images/BAosFq

Or have no water

https://goo.gl/images/6ZxJtj

And here are some flooded ones.

https://goo.gl/images/q13ENR

https://goo.gl/images/SvkKA5

https://goo.gl/images/zjdi7c

So anyway, I think you get the idea now. They usually have low levels of water in them or are completely dry. And it can vary, some sections can have more water than another section.

So ANYWAY.

Now that we've explained what a bog is (which might not have even been necessary, maybe you do have them or are just knowledgeable, in which case i apologize), here is the story.

So one time, we were on a walk and Gator decides on the way home that he wants to walk in the canal instead of on the trail. So he goes diving in and walks a pretty good distance before I managed to get him out. And the hill here was pretty steep so he had to find a lower spot that he could get out at and scramble up, it wasn't super easy. But so anyway, in this particular spot he had chosen, the water was pretty brown or black, very murky etc. And also sometimes geese and ducks like these water sources and you can imagine what happens then. So this section was NOT nice clear clean water and was dirty and gross. So anyway, he dives in so needless to say, he was COVERED in mud when he came out. And it smelled. Now, he's a big dog (black Lab/Great Pyrenees, 130 pounds, around 30 inches, plus or minus an inch or so) so thankfully it was mostly his legs that got dirty. But I think the water was deepish so his underside also got dirty. Stomach and his chest. The white patch on his chest was darkened lol

Thankfully he's black so it didn't show but that's actually partly why I'm posting because it is not really thankfully. In that instance I kind of wished he was white because then I could at least see the mud and know when he was clean for sure.

Because he got a bath and I thought he wad clean but then I would towel him and more mud would come off. Inside.

And then also being hosed off, the water was not clear coming off lol

I kept thinking he was clean and brought him inside muddy.

I think being Lab, the mud would eventually just dried and fallen off but he stunk so needed a bath. And also I wasn't about to leave him outside to wait for it to dry off lol

Soooo..... yeahhhh...

Sometimes animals being white can be good. Because at least you can see the dirt and mud and know when you've gotten it all off instead of playing a guessing game with the cleanliness of your house and your sanity.

 

[Yorkshire Coop]

Yes, I can remember washing my horse down, getting him dry, then turning him out only to watch him head for the first mud puddle he came to. He was a white Appaloosa. There was no keeping him clean.

Not sure I could cope with a white/grey horse! Would drive my OCD crazy I have some weird habits! My friend has a traditional with lots of feather and it’s a real job keeping them clean. She’s just started showing her again so it was lots of scrubbing for her last weekend!

When I still rode horses, there was this white horse there named Bubba. I think they said he was a Quarter Horse but he was huge, like 16 hands. He was white but sometimes more of a cream color. He was like 24 or slightly older.

ANYWAY.

He was a really good boy but there was this one time they said they had like just given him a bath and he went and got pee all over himself! I don't know if he rolled or what but he had all these yellow pee stains and maybe poop too all over him.

And also they thought that he liked and preferred being dirty. I think he did because whenever he would get clean, he would go roll in something and get dirty again immediately or within just a few minutes!

I also have come to the conclusion that there is no keeping white horses or even just lighter colored horses clean! It is just not happening.

Also, I haven't given my dog a bath in forever plus he doesn't really do it now anyway but he used to go roll in the grass or even the DIRT (we have a few dirt patches) immediately after bathing!!

Thankfully he is black so it doesn't show but it is gross!

One time fairly recently, I think maybe over the summer, he did that and I had to bath him again.

He has these two dirt holes that he likes to literally dust bathe in (he's a weirdo) and so he went to one and started dust bathing after I gave him this bath. And I told him, I don't know why you're doing that because now I'm just going to have to give you a second bath!

So now usually he had to be on a short leash the whole time and brought inside immediately and towel dried. No staying out in the sun and grass to dry because he will get muddy.

Also, another time on a walk he went into the cranberry bogs. I don't know if you have those in England but they have these channels in them when they're dry and not flooded. (They flood them to collect the cranberries.

Here is a picture.

https://goo.gl/images/miyMne

But often the water level can be lower or the trail higher.

Like these.

https://goo.gl/images/zcjKUZ

https://goo.gl/images/HJNXP5

https://goo.gl/images/BAosFq

Or have no water

https://goo.gl/images/6ZxJtj

And here are some flooded ones.

https://goo.gl/images/q13ENR

https://goo.gl/images/SvkKA5

https://goo.gl/images/zjdi7c

So anyway, I think you get the idea now. They usually have low levels of water in them or are completely dry. And it can vary, some sections can have more water than another section.

So ANYWAY.

Now that we've explained what a bog is (which might not have even been necessary, maybe you do have them or are just knowledgeable, in which case i apologize), here is the story.

So one time, we were on a walk and Gator decides on the way home that he wants to walk in the canal instead of on the trail. So he goes diving in and walks a pretty good distance before I managed to get him out. And the hill here was pretty steep so he had to find a lower spot that he could get out at and scramble up, it wasn't super easy. But so anyway, in this particular spot he had chosen, the water was pretty brown or black, very murky etc. And also sometimes geese and ducks like these water sources and you can imagine what happens then. So this section was NOT nice clear clean water and was dirty and gross. So anyway, he dives in so needless to say, he was COVERED in mud when he came out. And it smelled. Now, he's a big dog (black Lab/Great Pyrenees, 130 pounds, around 30 inches, plus or minus an inch or so) so thankfully it was mostly his legs that got dirty. But I think the water was deepish so his underside also got dirty. Stomach and his chest. The white patch on his chest was darkened lol

Thankfully he's black so it didn't show but that's actually partly why I'm posting because it is not really thankfully. In that instance I kind of wished he was white because then I could at least see the mud and know when he was clean for sure.

Because he got a bath and I thought he wad clean but then I would towel him and more mud would come off. Inside.

And then also being hosed off, the water was not clear coming off lol

I kept thinking he was clean and brought him inside muddy.

I think being Lab, the mud would eventually just dried and fallen off but he stunk so needed a bath. And also I wasn't about to leave him outside to wait for it to dry off lol

Soooo..... yeahhhh...

Sometimes animals being white can be good. Because at least you can see the dirt and mud and know when you've gotten it all off instead of playing a guessing game with the cleanliness of your house and your sanity.

Great read