Donations

Why is it that those who don't necessarily need a donation are the ones who seem to get it?  I just read an article in Horses Incorporated Magazine about a race horse in California (Frankie) with a leg wound who was hauled to WA (donation by Bob Hubbard Horse Transportation), spent months at a facility in Redmond, WA (Pegasus Equine Rehabilitation) and recieved "life saving" treatments in their new Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy thingie.   Oh yeah, and Pilchuck Veterinary Hospital in Snohomish donated vet work.

My horse has a similar injury that I have been treating since July.  I contacted Pegasus and asked how much a similar treatment would be.  EGADS!!!!!!  $200/per treatment, and they thought he would need at least 10 plus $60/day boarding fee.  I surely cannot afford that.  They suggested someone in my area might "sponsor" him, but who's gonna do that?  Cody is a great horse in my eyes, but probably not in everyone's!  He has never done anything...not a show horse, not a ranch horse, just a horse that I take the occasional reining lesson on and ride on the trails.  In fact, I wouldn't even ask anyone to sponsor something like that.  Except the owner of the facility!

Tomorrow, (or the next day, or maybe the next!) I'll go into detail on Cody's wound...

You start your YEARLINGS under saddle????????

You start your YEARLINGS under saddle????????

Why is it people think it's OK to ride a yearling?  I have a friend, well probably an ex-friend, who thinks nothing of starting a horse at 18 months.  And I don't mean just backing them and then sending to turn-out for a year or two.  I mean starting them, walk-trot-canter, lots of circles, hard stops, etc.  And then they don't even get turned out...it's back to the stall you go.  

It makes me cringe!  And whenever she says anything to me about it I just want to yell at her.  Last time I was at the barn I told her what I thought of it.  And she always wonders why her horses are lame!  Well, now she knows MY theory!!  

I don't think I am invited back...  But that's fine, my horses are home OUT IN THE PASTURE LIKE HORSES!  Yes, they are muddy and shaggy.  But they do get regular grooming and have rugs put on nightly.  And they are happy ponies!  Not dead-heads like you see in so many barns.  

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