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Is there a reason you weren’t riding? Sorry if I missed something!Counting down the days until I ride again!
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Is there a reason you weren’t riding? Sorry if I missed something!Counting down the days until I ride again!
Trying to heal my horse from chronic founder. Had to undo 5 years of neglect (By someone else, I got him pretty recently) before I could ride. He looked normal but was actually lame on all 4 feet. We started in May of last year and until December worked to get weight off and get him in stable condition for the time being. In December, my farrier wasn't sure if he would ever even be comfortable, much less rideable, and I considered putting him down but decided to give it until February. Fast forward to February, farrier is back and she says he's grown a LOT of healthy hoof and sole. He's actually recovering, at an insane rate. She'd never seen a horse that bad off before him and was completely astonished that he was rebounding. On last check, he's cleared for light riding in June. He looks better now than he has, well, ever!Is there a reason you weren’t riding? Sorry if I missed something!
Awesome!!!!!!Trying to heal my horse from chronic founder. Had to undo 5 years of neglect (By someone else, I got him pretty recently) before I could ride. He looked normal but was actually lame on all 4 feet. We started in May of last year and until December worked to get weight off and get him in stable condition for the time being. In December, my farrier wasn't sure if he would ever even be comfortable, much less rideable, and I considered putting him down but decided to give it until February. Fast forward to February, farrier is back and she says he's grown a LOT of healthy hoof and sole. He's actually recovering, at an insane rate. She'd never seen a horse that bad off before him and was completely astonished that he was rebounding. On last check, he's cleared for light riding in June. He looks better now than he has, well, ever! View attachment 3840350I'm easing into it slowly, and he's never going to be 100%, but he'll probably eventually be cleared for mid level riding, which is all I wanted. He's got the loveliest personality, sweet, loyal, great with kids, (a bit of a coward with other horses though) he's everything I wanted. And beautiful to boot!
Awww! I’m glad you decided to wait a little! He’s really really handsome! I love his mane!Trying to heal my horse from chronic founder. Had to undo 5 years of neglect (By someone else, I got him pretty recently) before I could ride. He looked normal but was actually lame on all 4 feet. We started in May of last year and until December worked to get weight off and get him in stable condition for the time being. In December, my farrier wasn't sure if he would ever even be comfortable, much less rideable, and I considered putting him down but decided to give it until February. Fast forward to February, farrier is back and she says he's grown a LOT of healthy hoof and sole. He's actually recovering, at an insane rate. She'd never seen a horse that bad off before him and was completely astonished that he was rebounding. On last check, he's cleared for light riding in June. He looks better now than he has, well, ever! View attachment 3840350I'm easing into it slowly, and he's never going to be 100%, but he'll probably eventually be cleared for mid level riding, which is all I wanted. He's got the loveliest personality, sweet, loyal, great with kids, (a bit of a coward with other horses though) he's everything I wanted. And beautiful to boot!
Thanks! He's apparently fairly uncommon, being a grey quarab. His mane is super cute, it is wavy, which I never saw a horse have before.Awww! I’m glad you decided to wait a little! He’s really really handsome! I love his mane!
That’s really cool! Make sure to post more pictures of him! Also if you don’t mind what’s his name?Thanks! He's apparently fairly uncommon, being a grey quarab. His mane is super cute, it is wavy, which I never saw a horse have before.
Ten points for landing on your feet!I fell off bareback once. I was on the shetland pony and she had never been cantered bareback before. And I had never cantered bareback either. She decided to hit the breaks when I got her to canter and I rolled over her shoulder, landing on my feet.
Haha, oh you gotta love horses and their antics.Ten points for landing on your feet!
When I was a kid, I fell off bareback many times while just fooling around with other kids, daring each other to do stupid things. Back in the 70's when parents used to let you do stuff.
But my most stupid "falling off bareback" incident, was as an adult (supposed to know better!) when I was teaching a class including a young student who was kind of timid, a good rider but who always put pressure on herself and got stressed about new things that were out of her comfort zone. Probably because her two older sisters and their Mom were all successful riders in various disciplines. She was leasing my Appy mare, who could be kind of headstrong.
I was trying to get my student to just lighten up and have fun fooling around with no pressure, making up games in the arena with her and some other students, like trot a circle bareback, dismount between the barrels, lead them forwards and backwards through a pole maze, get back on and canter two low jumps.
It was all fun and games until the kids wanted me to prove I could do it too, so I got on my own Appy mare, it all went well until we got to the jumps, and my headstrong Appy mare decided to do her favorite cutting-horse turn and dumped me on the ground.
Clunk! Went my head. HAHA! Went my Appy mare.
At least the students, in between laughing at me, realized that wearing a helmet is necessary.
Just my opinion, but it seems like our world changes so fast that being too specific in a narrow education for some current demand only leads for a short time to a well-paid career. Then things like AI chatbots, like you say, can totally twist up what is in demand and what is not.Oh my gosh, yes! It is incredibly hard to navigate things now, especially since often my degree of choice is seen like that, or so many expect me just to be a teacher/get back into school, go for a masters, or do something like that. Unfortunately a big area of argument that has arisen between my parents and I is that they just don't see the horse industry as a valid career choice. I mean, I get it that it sure doesn't make a ton of money necessarily and is risky health-wise lol, but I totally agree that even those "cushy, safe" office jobs aren't always reliable. Nowadays with AI chatbots, things have definitely shifted in my chosen field as well. I'm sorry to hear about your partner, too, that's so tough to lose a job.