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inglorious-vikings [2012-11-06 08:46:32 +0000 UTC]
Awww, her face. XD
And poor Joe, something similar once happened to me with the buckle of the saddle. I just didn't notice until the saddle was suddenly all bloody and I was like 'Wut?' XD
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SnowglobeDragon In reply to inglorious-vikings [2012-12-11 10:16:44 +0000 UTC]
Luck has been with me, I've never done something like that. This came from a story the farrier was telling (he seems to end up bleeding in all the interesting ones). My best war story is having a perfect hoof shaped bruise on my leg for weeks. The horse kicked hard enough that you could see part of the frog and the toe grab on the shoe. It taught me to kill horseflies on sight.
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inglorious-vikings In reply to SnowglobeDragon [2012-12-11 16:41:24 +0000 UTC]
Lol, well it's one of my most adventurous stories, closely followed by me trying to get a twig out of my horse's mouth, that the idiot got stuck in there and being the second idiot around, I got my thumb into his teeth. XD he imidiatly stopped chewing around, when he felt something soft where it should not be, but it still was the day I learned also horses have sharp teeth and very strong chewing muscles. XD
Ohmai, something simiar happened to me, too once. Granted, the horse wanted to hit the horse standing beside it, but I was in the way. XD still got me a fancy hoofprint-bruise. XD
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SnowglobeDragon In reply to Hathien603 [2012-12-10 07:53:36 +0000 UTC]
Joe is a solid combination of common sense and nuts, the horse is just nuts XD. It's so tempting to keep her and let her worm herself in, but I know I wont have time for her in the future so she'll have to be the one that got away.
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Blindseer95 [2012-11-06 03:17:05 +0000 UTC]
Poor little arab :<
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SnowglobeDragon In reply to Blindseer95 [2012-11-06 03:26:18 +0000 UTC]
She's a Kaimanawa (New Zealand Mustang), and the strap is actually a gentle, if old fashioned and out of style, way of training a horse. It was the original method developed by JS Rarey (the original horse whisperer) to lay a horse on the ground to take away the fight or flight reflex. A lot of currently well known trainers like to do the lay down method as part of their training, just with a rope and not the leather strap.
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Blindseer95 In reply to SnowglobeDragon [2012-11-06 03:28:25 +0000 UTC]
Not saying it's abusive, just acknowledging the poor flighty horse's circumstance... being stuck with such an incompassionate owner.
Also, I've always had trouble spotting subtle differences between horse breeds. XD
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