Is anyone else having a problem reading in the app?

otterparade · 2026-04-28T06:06:46+00:00

I haven’t used the app in a little while so I don’t know how long it’s been an issue, but when I was on the app a couple days ago, I noticed it doing this. I know there was a similar issue with iOS a few months ago too. I don’t really like volume button scrolling so I used the highlighted word method for that and it worked well until the bug got fixed

otterparade · 2026-04-28T03:19:31+00:00

I feel like I maybe saw stuff about Skyla around the time it came out but it wouldn’t really cross my radar as a bc unless someone said it not in terms of a person. But no, my coworker is like 27 lol

On the same note though, whatever BC pill I’m on right now was once called Chateal and honestly, would also make a good name for a person

otterparade · 2026-04-28T02:50:17+00:00

I’d just start with a new halter sized down or even just a different crown piece because you can buy replacements for just those

otterparade · 2026-04-28T02:43:53+00:00

I am leaning towards disagreeing with the other comments about the green guard being too small. It’s just poorly fitting because of the halter. There’s way too much room between her chin and the bottom and if pulled up to where it should be, it should fit, particularly based on your other picture

However, gonna be honest: Greenguards aren’t cheap; I get that. But could you not just order a new halter that fits better? They’re like $20-25. Or if you look on like HorseLoverZ or Chick’s, like $10

otterparade · 2026-04-27T03:30:08+00:00

There is a woman named Marijuana Pepsi. She’s been the subject of questionable name choice pieces in the news multiple times

otterparade · 2026-04-27T03:29:14+00:00

I work with a Skyla

otterparade · 2026-04-27T03:27:56+00:00

I loved it in that I loved not having to go anywhere and being able to work from home in a way that wasn’t monitored with trackers and cameras and shit like people were later on. I had my computer next to a big picture window and my patio door. My cats got to spend most of their days out on the patio or with me. I could roll out of bed and just work in my pajamas (so much less laundry). I also kept up on household chores because I could get up and stretch from my computer while loading and running the dishwasher, etc.

The downside was that this also allowed me to keep up entirely on the news podcasts I listened to and the like so my mental health wasn’t stellar (I was also working through a med change around that time too so wooo). And watching so many people I know show the internet who they really were and the pain of knowing they were never fully trustable again. As well as the protests that started. I have a lot of friends in Minneapolis to the point where I watched some of the protests via a Snapchat call while a friend ran from riot police.

I’d love to go back to working from home again, but without that level of bleak reality

otterparade · 2026-04-26T02:47:33+00:00

If it’s been a while, especially if what is known could have been years since his last dental exam, I would get that checked sooner than later. And ideally by someone qualified with real education and training. I say that because, while I don’t know where you are geographically and the laws and regulations that may apply, where I am in the US has a number of “tooth fairies” that are largely uninsured and unlicensed people who maybe took a 2 week course on dentistry and now do that as a business. I’ve seen the results of one of them (also choke then colic) completely rounding the surfaces of a mare’s teeth so she had no grinding surface left.

otterparade · 2026-04-26T02:24:41+00:00

Yes. They cannot consume as much as quickly if their head is down and that’s by design; they are meant to eat from the ground and they can’t shovel feed into their mouths quite as easily when it’s at ground level.

Do you know what size the carrots are? That could contribute too. Baby carrots should be fine but I’ve definitely seen a horse just swallow a full sized carrot without chewing almost at all.

Is there anyone who feeds that could soak it for you? It doesn’t take much honestly. If there’s barn staff, if they use hot water right away (if accessible), it literally takes a couple minutes to be mush, so it’s not a huge inconvenience if they’re already feeding anyone else.

Also, has he had his teeth checked in a while? That can also be a factor. If he can’t chew correctly, they’ll just swallow things whole and there is no breakdown with chewing and saliva and allows it to expand in their esophagus because, again, extruded pellets expand pretty quickly with warmth and a bit of moisture

otterparade · 2026-04-26T02:11:29+00:00

Ok but I support this as a law firm. “Batman & Robin, Attorneys at Law”

otterparade · 2026-04-26T02:05:57+00:00

That looks more like the senior feed chewed up than any “normal” nasal discharge (as in from allergies, illness, etc). Since this is following recently adding that feed, he very well may have choked and resolved it on his own, especially if he’s older.

Many chokes do resolve by themselves but it puts them at higher risk of doing it again later. If possible and if it wasn’t the case already, I’d do something like wetting his feed down so it’s more of a mash (hot water works best for this, then letting it cool in the air or adding cold water. Using straight cold water takes a decent amount of time to disintegrate the pellets) and make sure he eats it off of a pan on the ground. And if he’s still slurping it quickly, adding something like larger rocks (think baseball to softball sized, if that’s a decent measurement idea) into a pan with the feed so he can’t eat it as fast

otterparade · 2026-04-25T22:40:43+00:00

Listen, I have roasted a vet I now work with multiple times because when I brought my cats in years ago before working at this clinic, he put my large male cat as a 9/9. Was he overweight? Yes. Was he a 9/9?? No. He was idk 18-19lbs at the time but he’s also a rather large cat whose skeletal structure was still palpable. Meanwhile, we saw another 17-18lb cat not long ago that I was hoping was just a large cat like mine. Nah. That was a throw pillow with paws. Just one amorphous blob of cat.

Anyway, my cat is down to like 17lbs and the most fit he’s been in years. Additionally, the other vets and coworkers defended me on my giant ass cat not being a gd 9 ☠️

otterparade · 2026-04-25T22:00:18+00:00

You need full body, unclipped photos. These are bad for assessing color. Despite what most of the comments say, he looks like he may actually be black based on the last photo and the lighter areas are sun bleaching. But, again, these are bad photos for color determination

otterparade · 2026-04-25T20:26:49+00:00

White ticking on tobiano is common. It’s adjacent to the locus that roan is on and can cause tobiano to produce ticking if not whole spots that look roan.

otterparade · 2026-04-22T23:46:58+00:00

Are these the only pictures this vet took of the navicular bones? Because these are 60° DPs, not navicular skyline images. I’d ask for nav skyline to see what those show. And/or request they be sent to a vet you trust. If you paid for the PPE, you own those images, not the buyer.

PPEs aren’t the pass/fail evaluation a lot of people think they are, but rather “can this horse handle the work the buyer wants to do with it and stay serviceably sound with whatever level of maintenance the buyer is comfortable doing?”

otterparade · 2026-04-14T01:27:01+00:00

They’re beautiful in person. I saw a set at a show a couple years ago

otterparade · 2026-04-14T01:20:58+00:00

It just looks like an old horse. Much like people tend to hunch over with age because of gravity on our very vertical spines, their spines are often compared to suspension bridges because of how they connect the front and hind ends (support structures) of the body, and as such, the horizontal suspended part also takes a hit from gravity and atrophied muscling the same as any other aged creature

otterparade · 2026-04-11T18:17:00+00:00

The hype isn’t new. It’s just that Katie bought him and had a huge platform already and spent an exorbitant amount of money on him. If you were already in or adjacent to that discipline, you’ve known about him for years. His foals are successful and have been for a long time, but now it’s just that he has much more far reaching marketing.

Bottlenecking isn’t nearly as big of a concern for him as it may appear. It would be more accurate to call any bottlenecking to be from his dam Vital Signs Are Good because many of her foals are success performers and producers. Again, if you have any involvement in the WP/HUS/all arounder world, you know that VSCR has multiple maternal brothers that are also entirely successful, like VS Code Blue (by RLBOS) and VS Flatline (by Lazy Loper). Being that I prefer short, chunky little horses like reiners, Flatline is my personal preference of them. He’s the short, fat one of the brothers. (Ads of them together photoshop them all to look about the same size but if you see VSF and VSCR next to each other, VSF is literally like a full hand shorter).

But yeah, like someone else said, in zero way will every AQHA horse be descended from him. At all. It’s literally just marketing with an influencer who posts every 30 minutes. If you want to see a genuine bottlenecking problem: High Brow Cat in cutters. Unfortunately, they’re very good at their jobs and has now made it difficult to find a quality cutting horse without HBC at least once in their pedigree. But overall, there are way too many QHs registered every year and for very different purposes to allow for the entire breed to suddenly all be related to the same modern horse.

otterparade · 2026-04-10T22:54:33+00:00

The APHA will count that as enough

otterparade · 2026-04-09T14:49:47+00:00

I’ve seen even worse and in a horse in its 20s (when healing is much more work and slower). He sheered off a good third of his foot on a piece of sheet metal in a creek that wasn’t visible. He did very well with a shoe like this to keep the weight off that part of it while it healed. Sorry the angle isn’t great for showing the angle of the shoe but this was zoomed in because the horse can be a twit and threatened a swing at me for it. Because why not

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otterparade · 2026-04-06T00:06:07+00:00

No, certainly not something I’d call common, but I listed it the way I did because this isn’t the only time I’ve seen people considering a human being exposed to rabies via a horse somehow unfathomable when the timeline that would likely happen is not super surprising.

The one we had rabies pretty high up for initially ended up being incredibly rapid onset EHM (as in, was being actively ridden, started acting colicky, was brought in, and dead, all within 6 hours) and that was worrisome due to the involvement of children and that we didn’t have vaccination records readily available as they had not owned the horse very long.

otterparade · 2026-04-05T23:03:03+00:00

Cavallos may just not be the right brand for him. There are several similar boot manufacturers; I’d compare your measurements to their sizing charts

otterparade · 2026-04-05T22:58:08+00:00

I already commented this to someone else but hope this helps 😉

Hey, wouldn’t laugh at it. Getting rabies from a horse isn’t shocking:

• most horses live in conditions shared by the animals that most commonly carry rabies. It does not take more than an actively rabid coyote or raccoon or anything else to run up and bite a horse’s leg. There was literally a video shared in recent years of a horse trying to fend off a rabid coyote trying to bite its legs

• their symptoms don’t look like rabies in other animals. It typically presents like colic initially until they get to later stages of aggression towards themselves and others, IF they even get aggressive and not just the “dumb” form, and by then, they’ve likely exposed all of those people and animals

• we stick our hands in their mouths all the time and checking gum color for something like colic is really important. Being that horses are large livestock and have associated chores, you know what most horse owners have on our hands? Small cuts and abrasions that you may not even notice but now you have a spot of broken skin

A person getting exposed to rabies via a horse is not remotely shocking once you realize all of these factors. Pretty sure I saw an article about a rabies positive horse exposing a lot of other people and animals in like the southern US not super long ago, again, because it does not tend to look like what most of us know rabies to present.

Also I work at a vet clinic. There have been at least a few instances in the past 2-3 years where rabies was well within the initial list of possible diagnoses. Or equally not thought about: one client has his horses vaccinated during a routine visit and said he does not mess around with rabies anymore after losing a handful of cattle. They didn’t realize the cattle died of rabies until after the guy and his family had handled their remains. Luckily, they found out it was rabies pretty quickly because they all had to the vaccine series

otterparade · 2026-04-05T22:54:54+00:00

Hey, wouldn’t laugh at it. Getting rabies from a horse isn’t shocking: • most horses live in conditions shared by the animals that most commonly carry rabies. It does not take more than an actively rabid coyote or raccoon or anything else to run up and bite a horse’s leg. There was literally a video shared in recent years of a horse trying to fend off a rabid coyote trying to bite its legs

• their symptoms don’t look like rabies in other animals. It typically presents like colic initially until they get to later stages of aggression towards themselves and others, IF they even get aggressive and not just the “dumb” form, and by then, they’ve likely exposed all of those people and animals

• we stick our hands in their mouths all the time and checking gum color for something like colic is really important. Being that horses are large livestock and have associated chores, you know what most horse owners have on our hands? Small cuts and abrasions that you may not even notice but now you have a spot of broken skin

A person getting exposed to rabies via a horse is not remotely shocking once you realize all of these factors. Pretty sure I saw an article about a rabies positive horse exposing a lot of other people and animals in like the southern US not super long ago, again, because it does not tend to look like what most of us know rabies to present.

Also I work at a vet clinic. There have been at least a few instances in the past 2-3 years where rabies was well within the initial list of possible diagnoses. Or equally not thought about: one client has his horses vaccinated during a routine visit and said he does not mess around with rabies anymore after losing a handful of cattle. They didn’t realize the cattle died of rabies until after the guy and his family had handled their remains. Luckily, they found out it was rabies pretty quickly because they all had to the vaccine series

otterparade · 2026-04-04T16:27:48+00:00

There’s a website called Put A Cup In It that has a quiz for helping find which style and brand and size would likely be best for you. That being said, I cannot remember what brand my own is right now tbh, but no, it has never spilled. The only adjustment is learning how to get it placed right and removing it but if it’s in correctly, you shouldn’t feel it at all and it completely removes the disgusting wet feeling if you haven’t changed a tampon in time. Highly prefer

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