This message is from: Larson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>Date: Sun, 12 Sep 1999 21:11:10 -0400 >>From: Nancy Hotovy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>Subject: Fjords AND dogs > >>Just to keep with the subject of Fjords - - - how do you bombproof your >>Fjords without all the critters to keep things lively? >> >>Nancy Hotovy, from Michigan where the bugs are finally dying off! > >Nancy, > >Excellent point on the extra farm beasties. We have TONS of these "stimulus >response" critters running, >wading, flying and crawling around our ranch. My husband breeds and trains >reiners and, boy, what a >difference some extra quacking and barking can do to bomb-proof these normally >hyped horses. > >Speaking of husband.....after three days in the Gila Wilderness with one of my >Fjord mares, he is now a true >convert. His buddies took the stand-by QH. (Don't get me wrong. I love all >horses, any breed. But >Weegies (Fjords) are extra special.) Well, he had nothing to ride on the >trail as all of his are in various levels >of arena training. So, Bingo! "I'll break down and take on of my wife's >little Fjords." Shandy is this mare's >name and, not only did she carry my hubby and his packs safely and happily >through the wilderness, but then >went back and pulled both the other men and their 16hh QHs out of a jam. > >Fjords - the Super Horse! :-) > >Josie Larson from Beyond the Great Barrier (New Mexico) where the flies are >STILL alive and well.
