#horse crap

[grandmoments]

Prison Break 1x20

[tvshowpilot]

This is definitely one of the best jokes of Heartland season 11! Georgie for the win!

[n0thingiscool]

Work of art - sh.itjust.works

[comedypony]

Icies moved this morning. It all went smooth and quick.

Should be relieved, and I am a little, but I’m mostly sad.

Things have gotten so bad between new barn owner and old barn owner that they’re only allowed to communicate through lawyers. She has til the end of the month to get her remaining two horses off the property.

So she’s trying like hell to sell Clark to get him out of there. Apparently someone saw him a couple days ago and it went pretty well. 🤷‍♂️

I have to accept that it’s over. The tiny bit of hope I’ve been hanging onto, every day thinking maybe THIS will be the week I get a job, has made things so much harder. I need to fucking let it go.

I just love that stupid, middle-aged, mediocre horse so much I can’t handle it.

Fuckin hell.

[comedypony]

What was once the best boarding barn I’ve ever been at, has gone very quickly downhill thanks to change of ownership. My bestie and owner of the icies works there, but desperately needs to quit and gtfo. So we are most likely moving the ponies quite soon.

This is fine. I am ok with it. It is probably better for everyone.

But. My awkward chestnut buddy is at the place we’re leaving. He belongs to the former barn owner who now lives in Florida and is trying to sell him. He doesn’t have his own person, and I desperately want to be his person. I get to play with him and check on him whenever I can right now, but when we move the icies I won’t have an excuse to go see him. And he’s for sale.

I need a job. And some savings. God I need a job so bad. Been trying to stay more optimistic cause everyone says there will be more hiring in the new year. But it’s probably going to be too late for Clark. I’m gonna lose my chance to buy him. She’s asking $5500, which is too much for what he is. But even if I had that I can’t afford board right now. It just breaks my heart a little bit every day. I’ve never really felt this way about a horse before. And I assumed it was just cause he is a little bit of a problem child and needed someone and it felt nice to be needed. He’s so not my type or the right fit for me in almost every way. But it just feels right. He feels like home. I want him to be happy and comfy and loved. And I want him to be with someone who will spend money to get him fully vetted and get him bodywork and joint supps cause something is not quite right. He’s 15 and was probably cowboy broke when he was 2, and he has been cared for and loved but like…the bare minimum. He hasn’t been spoiled. He deserves that. I sort of wish she would just sell him and I could grieve and try to move on, instead of this teeny tiny brutal bit of hope that keeps lingering.

[ravynfyre]

horse nonsense

so. my chestnut sorrel horse, Fox, that I got last year after my beloved Takoda passed, started attacking my sheep, dogs, and lambs this spring. As much as I liked him, he had to go. That would leave me with one horse, and that's not fair to her. She needs company, and cows... they'll do in a pinch, but, really, she needs a herd, and herd of 2 is still better than being alone.

so I've been looking for someone to replace fox with. Guy came and looked at Fox, liked him, and then tried to lowball me on my asking price. I kindly told him that, no, what I was asking was even low for what he was, so I would not be taking lower than what I asked. I didn't want him to go for, basically, a kill pen price, which was what this guy was asking me. Then his girlfriend asks if I'd be interested in a mule, because they have a smaller mule mare that they are trying to sell.

The mule turned out to be everything I had been hoping for, and more. Color, temperament, training, everything. The only negative was that she had had cancer in on eye before, had the eye removed, and the surgeon, for whatever reason, opted to let the surgical site heal from the "outside in", rather than sewing the eye closed.

Or so I was told.

I made an offer of the trade of my horse, Fox, plus enough money that I would have only lost $100 between the values. The guy countered by offering to take $400 LESS than what I offered.

that should have been red flag number 2, but he was a good friend of another good friend, and I mistakenly assumed that he was trying to do good by me for their sake. We agreed, he even threw in a piece of tack I needed, and we made the sale/trade.

A few days later, I took the mule, now named Honey, to my large animal vet to have the wound looked at to get a better treatment plan than "just spray it with shit now and then".

it wasn't a surgical wound. it was malignant, aggressive, basal cell carcinoma. Cancer. and not only would my vet not give me a wound care plan (other than take these antibiotics and spray shit on it now and then to protect it from flies), my vet wasn't even sure that we could save Honey's life at all, because it was so advanced and so bad. Vet offered to send us to the vet college for a consult, so i agreed.

vet college needs way too much money for me to rationalize spending, just to walk in the door and speak to an oncologist. and that hasn't even tipped into the *treatment* plan, which will likely run into the thousands of dollars. i can't afford that. not and keep the rest of my livestock alive.

so, contacted the guy to tell him about all that, and he said he would work with me, but was the doc REALLY SURE that it was cancer, becaaauuuuse....

yeahno. the doc is sure. it's fucking cancer, and she's in bad shape.

so he offered to let me have a look at these other horses he had literally gotten in the day before, one of which was a "nice little appaloosa mare" that he thought I'd like.

that should have been red flags number 3 and 4. but i was still trying to give this guy the benefit of the doubt.

i told him that i would check with the vet college about a couple things, then call him back in a day or two to let him know what i decided, and see about maybe seeing the mare.

called him today. he sold the mare last night. oh, and he's already sold fox on to someone else, too.

so. i told him that when he gets back from wherever he (conveniently eneough) is this weekend, he needs to come get honey and bring me the money i paid him, and my full asking price for fox, since he already sold him on. he promised that he would.

now we wait and see. and sometime next week, my horse becomes a herd of one, and i pray to gods that she doesn't give up and stop eating again like she did when takoda died.

honey was *perfect*. honey was *everything* i had been looking for. honey was supposed to be the last equine i ever bought.

what a fucking nightare.

[roysrage-blog]

ROY LOST 1 MILLION DOLLARS IN THE STOCK MARKET!!!

[spooniewithtn]

What started out as a good day

ended in a pretty crappy one. This is my third week back to work and I've already been called to the boss' office due to a coworker. Now, I'm all upset over this massive amount of horse crap and now my TN has flared up. My job isn't that important for me to have to deal with it causing my TN to flare. That is why I left my old job. Quick. Someone send me a funny gif or a hot Diego pic.