This message is from: "Dave McWethy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I guess mistakes keep life interesting when things get too predictable. You might have wondered what my post about Iowa and Yugoslavia had to do with Fjord horses. Actually it has to do with "Family" being next to "Fjord List" on my address list. I would say in general it's wise to keep politics off the list. From the responses, though, it seems we mostly feel a lot of sadness and sympathy for the people in Yugoslavia. I wish we could figure a better way of helping than to bomb.
About geldings in handicapped programs. We inherited a gelding Gus from a program. He had gone there as part of what Phil Prichard set up for donating Fjords to handicapped programs, and was found unsuitable. My daughter Sky used him a couple of years as a Pony Club horse, and he was widely appreciated. Finally we sold him (he funded an AFS foreign exchange for her in Argentina), and he went to New Jersey. Until a couple of years ago I think he was the only Fjord in the state, because when someone from there would say, "Oh yeah, I know a Fjord in NJ", it would always turn out to be Gus. I suspect with more experience, he would have done fine for handicapped folks. He just wasn't ready as a four year old.
