Hi all-

I don't post often but I thought this was worthy of your time.

www.fleetofangels.org is an all volunteer organization dedicated to the transportation of at-risk equines.

If you are willing to haul 5 or 500 miles, or even just willing to help facilitate the rescue of horses from dire situations (make calls, put people in contact with one another or just help spread the word like this!) register on this site.

I think about all the horses I could have helped when I didn't have access to a trailer and this is an affordable solution to that problem. I have several auction houses and race tracks in my vicinity and know that many more horses could have better homes if someone was just willing to bring them there. When I got my first rescue horse, I was lucky enough to know people that would help but not everyone is so lucky (or sometimes that friend cant help!). I joined to help "pay it forward" for all the help I received over the years! 

Take a few, check it out and put your trailer where your mouth is to get horses out of at-risk situations!

~ Windy

Our vet was up yesterday and we have good news! Mickey isn't foundering, he's still getting over being whanged up so bad after he got cast. He's back on 1 gram of Bute twice a day for the next week or so, we've increased his turnout time and he's getting his legs soaked in hot water for 20 minutes twice a day. If it's way too cold for that, we're wrapping his legs in heating pads for the same amount of time.

Thank you all so much for your good thoughts! You folks rock!

So that lease I posted about a few weeks ago about a little girl getting My gelding for xmas? Well that fell through, they ended up getting her a horse that she could grow into.

But today, I moved Mr B to this wonderful woman's farm. They have a bunch of big horses already, but nothing that her little girl can ride with much confidence.

I found this woman through a local equestrian facebook page, and she is everything I could have ever asked for. She completely understands Beluga's health conditions (she's a vet tech, yes!), she has other horses, and she has the PERFECT little girl.

I swear I've never seen two creatures bond as quickly as these two did. This little girl tied the lead to his halter, swung up on his back, and took off like they'd been partners forever. He did everything she asked of him, she never had to ask twice. I started crying. Beluga has never been a fan of children, mostly because they all scream and jump all over him and yank his beard and such, but he absolutely loves this little girl.

So that's that. He's going to live with them until she outgrows him, or I decide I really need him back. But we aren't even considering that for another 8 months, until we get our new house. They live about 45 minutes away, and I'm welcome to go visit him whenever I want. They're going to be sending me regular updates and oodles of pictures. She sent me the first one already, just 4 hours after I dropped him off.

Hello everyone!

I'm doing heirloom Cameo Portraits in traditional media of pets at a new special price.

~2.5" x 3.5" is now $20 for acrylics and only $15 for graphite

~5" x 7" is now $50 for acrylics and only $40 for graphite



If interested in a Cameo Portrait please email me at portraitsbybecca@gmail.com

Here is my website as well: http://portraitsbybecca.angelfire.com/index.html

Hi all! I know everyone loves a bargain, and a tack sale, so I wanted to share my huge inventory of used tack. If you're interested in an item, let me know. I'm accepting paypal payments, and you pay the shipping. I'm located in Indiana.

Just about everything is priced to sell. Some items are negotiable, but not very many. I can get pictures of anything you want to see, but I'm not going to do returns. At the bottom of the list I have some pictures of some of the items. Concerning the tall boots, I don't have exact sizes, but they are small. A couple are children's sizes, nothing would be over a 7.5 foot and all the calves are slim. For measurements, ask.

ETA: If the picture isn't listed below here, I'll need to get pictures. Give me 24 hrs max to respond to requests for images.

( Big ol' list of mostly english, and some western, tack and apparel )

Question for any reining people out there.

Now, I haven't shown in a reining class since the time before freestyles were popular. I know that they dress in costume, unlike their dressage counterparts. (I mean, my pink sparkly tail extension piece can be extreme in the view of some dressage judges... and if I know this prior, I won't put it in.)

But what I do not understand is why, in a freestyle REINING class, would the winner be going with two hands and an English-type saddle as in this video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lzOn5QE9lG0&sns=fb

It doesn't make much sense to me, seeing as how reining is a western discipline, so the tack should remain western, as should how reins are held. Now, if this horse is normally a snaffle bit horse, fine, then I have no problem with the rider using two hands. And in reality, she doesn't use the reins hardly at all, so again, moot point.

But if it is a western seat, why did this sort of thing become acceptable?

Thank you in advance for any explanation of this.

So it finally happened, the thing I knew had to happen eventually. The lease I had on the mare I was riding was ended. Her owner is moving, and we are still friendly, I might continue the lease again if he moves quickly and not too far away, but I don't know. I'm gonna go pick up all my tack later today.

I'm not going to look for another one. I really like that mare. She's the first horse I've been able to really ride without anxiety. We are in the process of getting our loan finalized so we can get a legit house of our own. We're going to be getting horse property, for sure, the market here is really good for that.

I guess this is a good thing, really, now I can take all the money I was putting into the lease and put it towards a horse of my own, and one for my fiance as well. I want to get a trailer first though. I always hated having to borrow a trailer. Again, pretty good market for find a cheap one here as well. Looks like I'll be able to find a nice used 2 horse for under 2grand.

As for the horses, I want to make sure I take my time and pick out the perfect horses for us. I made the mistake with my first horse of just taking whatever came along first.....which happened to be a mustang, a spooky, touchy, unfriendly mustang with a rearing problem. -___- I dumped so much money into training for that horse I could have easily purchased a much more well behaved and dead broke one. I could probably handle him now, but he terrified me at the time. Hey, I was 16, and my mom said I would have a horse. I was excited.

I definitely like the heavier boned horses, not like super tall (I really do not like heights), something quiet and slow. My fiance, ughh it makes me so mad, the first time he got on a horse he was a friggin natural. So not fair. He needs a larger horse for sure, something in the 16h+ range.

So I guess I'm gonna ask, what sort of horses should I be looking for?

And so this isn't an all text post, here's some pics of my old mustang, who is now a sweet old mans trail horse.
( Few more pics )

Hey guys!
Hope everyone had a good holiday.
( I'm here seeking advice again on my working situation. )

Hey guys! So I'm tentatively looking for a new project horse (fox hunter, possible eventer) and have had my eye on a gelding listed on the website of a rescue that I've worked with in the past. I got my first horse from them and was SUPER happy with how he turned out. I've also had a number of people in the area get horses from them and they've had great experiences. This guy's picture was added more than a month ago and I've been waiting for them to post riding pics and a video because he looked so dang cute. I love the bigger boned looking boys. So they finally posted up a video of him and... I don't know what to think. I still think that he's adorable and he looks like he'd be pretty lazy (which is fine because I'm not a fan of hot horses) so that'd help work up my leg. But he looks almost... lame? Or like he's tip toeing around? With an on-off head bob?? Is it just me looking at it too much or does anyone else see anything off? Input would be very much appreciated since I'm thinking of going to go look at him this week...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ziuyzsS5DE&feature=youtube_gdata_player

(Sorry I can't embed video, iPad hates me)

Hello! I’m Gracie, I’m 23 and I live outside of Los Angeles. I’ve had an LJ forever (charterzard), but I just created my horse-related journal a few weeks ago, and I’ve been lurking here ever since.

I kind of got back into riding after nearly a year off (due to that awkward college-real life transition), and right now I’m leasing a 4-year-old TB gelding named Bill. We’re doing mostly flatwork, but also some low-level hunter stuff – not showing yet, though.

So, anyway, I’ll probably be on a mad friending/commenting jag – don’t mind me. Not really sure what I’ll be putting in my journal yet, but it’ll most likely be pictures. And probably some icons, too, because they really shouldn’t have installed Photoshop on my work computer…

( And it's not an introduction without pictures! )

So... the end? Nice to meet everyone!

Edited to fix lj-cut text. /OCD