When in reality, if you try that, you'll do this:
And break your butt into a million pieces.
No. You know what Red did last time I saw him?? He pooped ALL over my brand new boots. Poop everywhere. Poop. Everywhere. Literally, it covered my pant leg and shoe. That's what is coming.
Sheath cleanings are coming. Pregnancy tests for mares are possibly coming. Poop is coming, lots'a poop. Blood is coming, either from you, the horse, your trainer or all three. With horseys, those precious fur balls of sunshine and happiness-and poo-are going to hurt you whether they want to or not. Red has slammed his hoof into my toe, hit my leg on a metal wall of a round pen, run me up hills and into trees and afterwards I had a bloody back from tree limbs scratching me, he's hit me with his leather noseband and browband, which by the way hurts like something that hurts a lot, especially when it goes straight into your lip and results in two busted lips.
It is not full of rainbows, horse owning. It's hard. You will cry your heart out and you may think you run out of tears, then something else'l happen. You'll have rainbows, but you'll have rain. Don't buy a horse expecting it to be like owning a hamster.
Very true.
ReplyDeleteAmen to that!
ReplyDeleteHee hee! True true. But I do have bareback rides often:)
ReplyDeleteI do as well, but there is a large amount of training that goes into it, obviously you can ride bareback without a ton of effort, but on some horses it takes a lot of hard work and doing anything special bareback or completely tackless like the picture above is a huge thing! :)
DeleteTru Dat! It's not like owning anything else in the world! But it is the BEST thing ever~
ReplyDeleteHaha such a good post!! I love it. I spent all weekend wiping Wizard's ass as he shat himself all weekend... I was like, hmm, so this is what having a kid is like! If you aren't prepared for poop, and pee (oh, he's peed all over my stuff before), and blood- yeah, horses aren't for you! Luckily, my boyfriend is the best and he even held my horse at the last show as I hosed off the poop that had gotten all over his rear-end while he trailered. Must be love!
ReplyDeleteAmen! And yes, you have found a good one! Lol!! I've been pooped on, peed on...one when we were riding Red decided to pee, somehow he peed on my jeans! I mean, come on! So many people seem to think that horses are equivalent to a cat, but nope! You'll get messy and bloody! :D
DeleteSo true!!
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