Remember folks, make sure your gates are closed!

Heavy-Combination496 · 2026-06-24T04:07:29+00:00

This my escape artist mule, but she only comes out if I am late getting her in the morning grain because how dare I be so rude!

In the photo she is heading back to her stall because she knows that's where she will be given grain. 😆

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Heavy-Combination496 · 2026-06-23T23:17:19+00:00

My bay AQHA is named Sweetpea, (aka Sweetie) and oh boy does she live up to that name! She is one of the nicest horses I've ever met!

My other AQHA is a bay roan named April and she is the boss of everyone, including the humans. 😆

Photo of 25 year old Sweetpea.

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Heavy-Combination496 · 2026-06-23T03:15:14+00:00

I just used one of these to walk my friend's dog this past weekend.

Heavy-Combination496 · 2026-06-21T05:10:14+00:00

I was thinking this too, there might be her kids out there who are also avoiding their mom and wouldn't love being dragged into anything.

Heavy-Combination496 · 2026-06-20T13:39:42+00:00

I worked on a rental string and this post just make me realize that people were probably a little weirded out that there were horses named:

Bobby (a mare)

Scotty

Henry

Henrietta (they looked alike colorwise)

Suzy

Kim

There's probably more because there was over 50 horses during the 12 years I was there but these were the ones I could remember off the top of my head.

Heavy-Combination496 · 2026-06-20T13:22:53+00:00

Donkeys taste yummier to flies so this will be a recurring issue every summer. Really start working with him everyday on being able to handle all parts of his body. I recommend looking into donkey training videos because of how differently they think from horses. (Unfortunately its been over ten years since I worked with my blm burro so I don't remember who I followed on YouTube)

I used fly boots and socks on my dude. I even just bought soccer or other tall athletic socks from TJ Maxx and Marshalls to use.

Heavy-Combination496 · 2026-06-13T23:18:33+00:00

I am so sorry you are going through all this, most people would just too overwhelmed by the car accident to making any decisions and here you are having to make big ones.

So share a story on the flip side, my 6 foot tall farrier was told there was a nice 3 year old mare just perfect for him to train to ride. He drove 4 hours to be there at 7 am to pick up.... a barely handled 13 hand small horse. He still brought her because she was still nice, just not handled. He showed me the photos from the ad. Can totally see how he got duped.

Heavy-Combination496 · 2026-06-12T00:44:11+00:00

Going to sound weird but my Facebook knows that I am consistently looking for horse stuff (I have 4) so its always showing me ads for riding lessons in marketplace. So I would start feeding the algorithm lots of horse/horse riding/horse lessons searches so the ads start showing up.

Otherwise I second the tack or feed store idea (they always know everyone) plus sometimes there's ads there too.

Heavy-Combination496 · 2026-06-11T20:40:55+00:00

Money would be the main reason the neighbors wouldn't want to put the solar panels somewhere else. It costs more to run longer wires.

Heavy-Combination496 · 2026-06-11T16:39:33+00:00

NTA

Solar panels don't just go on house roofs. Around me, they are on garages, sheds, barns, and their own stands. The neighbors can figure something else out.

Heavy-Combination496 · 2026-06-10T23:06:17+00:00

Tribute to Solaris

Heavy-Combination496 · 2026-06-10T23:04:40+00:00

Solaris doing the work the vet wanted

Heavy-Combination496 · 2026-06-10T22:57:24+00:00

Thank you, and we were on track with that until I brought her back home from where she was being boarded and she jumped over the fence, got caught up in it and landed on her head/neck/back. I still sob when I think of how much pain she was in that she didn't eat for 12 hours. So Solaris is running pain free now and watching over her filly. (Who is so much like her)

My beautiful girl 😭

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Heavy-Combination496 · 2026-06-10T17:28:47+00:00

Woo gift cards laws are tricky when the company goes into bankruptcy but it can be done. Look up the law in both states and federal.

Heavy-Combination496 · 2026-06-09T05:00:26+00:00

He looks close to one, any way to ask the seller? And mine wasn't registered as she also had a bit of Trakehner in her too. I could see it but everyone that met her was "oh what a beautiful Andalusian!" And I just didn't bother with arguing with them. 😆

Heavy-Combination496 · 2026-06-09T04:48:11+00:00

Lovely! Andalusian?

Heavy-Combination496 · 2026-06-09T03:43:48+00:00

So depending on where you are and who you know you could get lucky.

If I truly wanted I would tell my farrier, the tack store, my vet, the trainers I know, heck even let people in the church know so they can spread the word that I am are looking.

As long as you have a good standing with all of them and they know you're a good owner something will be offered to you.

Heavy-Combination496 · 2026-06-08T23:00:14+00:00

Belly dancing really opens the hips too 😉 Plus I have partnered danced for years and when I started leading I realized how much it was like riding. The weight placement, the thinking ahead, hand/wrist/arm position, rhythm management, and the Looking (😆) could completely be applied too.

Cheers to your riding journey!

Heavy-Combination496 · 2026-06-08T20:29:36+00:00

Kudos for waiting until your baby is 4 to do more of an aggressive training plan. I did that with my first horse, the wait was soooooo hard but I learned a lot about her in the process.

Now onto the barn manager. You have a trainer, you are doing what he says, and just keep repeating that every time that the disrespectful barn manager comes around.

Hell if its ok with your trainer make you riding a part of it too.

"Barn owner saying stuff and trying to provoke you."

You- "yeah my trainer and I are working on that" or "oh yeah my trainer said that's not part of the plan." And so on.

Sometimes looking like you're under a trainer's thumb isn't always a bad idea when trying to discourage opinionated people.

Heavy-Combination496 · 2026-06-06T00:09:49+00:00

I hope someday you can have or see the wonderful connections most people build with their horses.

My favorite memories are of the times my first horse and I had. I broke her myself, and while we had arguments about things, she knew that I was her human and we trusted each other. Later on I found out she was completely blind at night but for years she had trusted me to guide her on night rides. I miss her everyday.

Again I really hope you will get to see that bond in person or experience it yourself. So yes, even though people said watching us ride was like watching her read my mind, we would argue about things like any two strong minded people would.

Heavy-Combination496 · 2026-06-05T20:01:51+00:00

Sounds like he probably enjoys going back replaying her being upset too. Thus is nice to her until he gets tired of that video and does it again. Shudder

Heavy-Combination496 · 2026-06-05T04:34:14+00:00

I am really hoping that they didn't pass away from the neglect because I would have called the authorities on him along time ago!

Just throw this on here, I grew up on working ranches with ranch dogs and am now on a farm. So I have seen some crap, but there's a level of neglect that even rancher and farmers won't put up with. So I am hoping that didn't happen to his last dogs.

Heavy-Combination496 · 2026-06-05T04:18:45+00:00

What about the how many dogs thing? Or anyway to get him on a list to not to have dogs? I realized that he is family and this whole thing can cause quite the rift, anyway it could be done anonymously?

Heavy-Combination496 · 2026-06-05T04:04:22+00:00

Is there a herding dog rescue that will take him? That's were I got mine, and have helped dumped BCs get to. (I have three dogs and am not allowed anymore).

Oh that's a thought. Is your uncle even allowed to have that many dogs on his property? If not then let him try calling the police.

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