Re: [IceHorses] Two Rescue Icelandics Available
Older horses CAN be useful sometimes...and they can also be happy in their deserved retirement with their buddy/buddies in the home they know. I don't have much respect for people who choose to pawn their old horses off on others. Shame on them; it happens WAY too often. Karen Thomas, NC As always, you named the devil very well. So well indeed that you should send this comment to a few horse magazines as in letters to the editor. There are so many shirkers out there; they just use others, their animals, etc. and never give anything in return. Anneliese
Re: [IceHorses] Two Rescue Icelandics Available
This girl I know had a horse for 15 yrs. The horse got old and couldn't be ridden anymore so she put him on a meat truck. I lost all respect for her immediately. There are a pair of iceys in wisconsin for sale. I think they are almost 30 yrs old. The owners have been trying to find the right home for quite some time. They have to stay together. .
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On 11/14/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In a message dated 11/14/2007 7:02:02 AM Pacific Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]) How old is the mare anyway? I am afraid to take a walking vet bill, you have her son so you should know how old this mare is from his papers. They said she needs a pasture. I am dry lot but only have one gelding, San Diego area. What do you know about this mare? Sylvia I really don't know much about her, except that I met her and have had her offspring for 13 years. Her papers say she was born in 1989, so is that about 18 years old..., it's not terribly old for a pony. Maybe the rescue people know more about the specifics. I saw her, probably 1995 or 1996, she must have been pretty young then. Kim
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On Nov 15, 2007 12:55 PM, Kimberly Morton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: IHer papers say she was born in 1989, so is that about 18 years old..., it's not terribly old for a pony. Gat is the same age and she doesn't act 'old'. Too bad the rescues are too far away from NB--I'll have pasture soon. V
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On 11/14/07, Kimberly Morton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Von is Dari's dam. I feel terrible about this. I wish I could take her, but I'm having to board my 5 horses out and it's stretching me. Dari is just the best little horse I could wish for. In fact, I met Von before, probably about 12 years ago, she was out at Elizabeth Haug's place. She was pretty wary of people at that time. Dari is probably the most trustworthy horse I've ever met, she must have passed some of that onto him. Kim
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I've sort of lost track of this thread. Who is this beautiful horse? Nancy
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In a message dated 11/14/2007 7:02:02 AM Pacific Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]) How old is the mare anyway? I am afraid to take a walking vet bill, you have her son so you should know how old this mare is from his papers. They said she needs a pasture. I am dry lot but only have one gelding, San Diego area. What do you know about this mare? Sylvia ** See what's new at http://www.aol.com
RE: [IceHorses] Two Rescue Icelandics Available
There is an older Arab gelding at Creekside right now. He's a retired endurance horse and the owner is having him evaluated to see if he might be able to go onto some sort of light work situation. He's a wonderful horse with some issues and is sad and confused. He has been ridden by the same man for over 10 years.It's hard for me to understand why his owner wouldn't reward his sweet horse for 10 years of hard work by retiring him in his home setting. You said it, Nancy. That sort of thing is my soapbox. I know that EVERYONE can't keep EVERY horse forever, but I just want to puke when some people suddenly come up and want to donate a 20+ year-old horse to a 4-H kid or something similar. I was a 4-H leader for a few years and I got very jaded by the generosity of some people. One woman had a 27-year-old TB mare that she'd owned and ridden (CTR and for teaching beginner lessons) since the mare was 3 or 4 years old. The mare had navicular, and assorted other old-age afflictions. The woman had the gall to want to be congratulated on her generosity for putting the old mare into the pool of horses looking for 4-H kids to adopt. The previously grand old mare was by then only rideable at a walk due to her many afflictions, and frankly, had one foot in the grave and the other on a banana peel. It was bad enough that her owner wouldn't let her live out her days on the farm she knew. And, they had plenty of acreage, so space wasn't a constraint. But, to put the grim and upcoming responsibility (read: deciding when to pull the plug) onto a child...Sure, let's just let some kid get attached to the poor old horse, and have their parents pay for the additional feed, farriery, and vet requirements of an old horse, and then let the child go through the heartbreak of losing their first horse. Some generosity...! :( GRRR! I'm sorry, but I wonder if that woman's kids will remember that attitude when it's time for her to go to a nursing home. After all, that's the example she showed them - if you can't use 'em, pawn 'em off on someone else, get 'em out of sight, and don't waste any time or money on 'em. Older horses CAN be useful sometimes...and they can also be happy in their deserved retirement with their buddy/buddies in the home they know. I don't have much respect for people who choose to pawn their old horses off on others. Shame on them; it happens WAY too often. Karen Thomas, NC No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.503 / Virus Database: 269.15.30/1125 - Release Date: 11/11/2007 9:50 PM
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Karen, Well said girl. There was a sweet family, new to horses, whose daughters took lessons from our grandaughter. The girls had been given two lovely OLD mares and the family was taking wonderful care of them, but they were stuck and were coming up on some very hard and sad times. They couldn't and wouldn't pass the mares along and do what some nice people had done to them. They could only take care of two horses. The girls were ready to move up to a more able horse. The last time I heard, they continued to board, baby and care for the old mares, but my guess is that we lost a good horse family because someone did them the big and generous favor of dumping gransma with them. Nancy
RE: [IceHorses] Two Rescue Icelandics Available
Karen Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Some generosity...! :( GRRR! I'm sorry, but I wonder if that woman's kids will remember that attitude when it's time for her to go to a nursing home. After all, that's the exampleshe showed them - if you can't use 'em, pawn 'em off on someone else, get 'em out of sight, and don't waste any time or money on 'em. Older horses CAN be useful sometimes...and they can also be happy in their deserved retirement with their buddy/buddies in the home they know. I don't have much respect for people who choose to pawn their old horses off on others. Shame on them; it happens WAY too often. Hi Karen, I agree with you with what you said. My mom passed away in Aug and my dad is 85 still alive and still moving around but slow and still has his mind. My brother wants to put our dad in a nursing home. Plus my brother is slowly tear my dad's house apart room by room. I keep telling my dad I want him to live another 5 or more years. My brother wants our dad out of his way so he can have our parent's house to sell. I told my brother if anything funny happens to our dad I will have the police knocking on his doorstep. As for old horses we have a 20yr old arab hackney he will died on our farm. We could not even think about giving this old horse away to anyone. It would be mean to the horse leaving his people family and his horse and barn friends. Plus this old horse is family and we treat all our horses as part of our family. Our 20yr old horse acts like he is 5yr olds he still trots everywhere and keeps the youngsters in line. Plus old horses it's harder on them to adjust to a new home and sometimes they die earlier then they should because of a broken heart. I have know a few olds horses that die a week after they were sold to a new home. Anne - Be a better sports nut! Let your teams follow you with Yahoo Mobile. Try it now.
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They are Von and Sam; click onto the links at this page: Sam is gorgous. Love to have a pinto or bay next time Lorraine Be a better sports nut! Let your teams follow you with Yahoo Mobile. Try it now. http://mobile.yahoo.com/sports;_ylt=At9_qDKvtAbMuh1G1SQtBI7ntAcJ
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Ohmigosh. They break my heart. They all do. There is an older Arab gelding at Creekside right now. He's a retired endurance horse and the owner is having him evaluated to see if he might be able to go onto some sort of light work situation. He's a wonderful horse with some issues and is sad and confused. He has been ridden by the same man for over 10 years.It's hard for me to understand why his owner wouldn't reward his sweet horse for 10 years of hard work by retiring him in his home setting. Nancy
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http://iceryder.net/rescue.html Gosh...they are so darn cute! I hope they find a loving forever home. Raven Lucy Molly, the Girl Doggies Huginn Dixie Chick, the Back Behind the Barn Ponies Respect ALL Earthlings. We are all animals of this planet. We are all creatures.
RE: [IceHorses] Two Rescue Icelandics Available
http://iceryder.net/rescue.html JUDY...they are both wonderful...wish I had pasture for them. Poor kids.
