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| Simone update and poor baby Bridey | |
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| Tweet Topic Started: Dec 5 2008, 07:00 PM (518 Views) | |
| 2Dogs | Dec 5 2008, 07:00 PM Post #1 |
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We're on a bridge, Chaaaaaaaaarlie!
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Bridey blew out her ACL on Thanksgiving day - yup, a day at NC State - surgery two days ago: My poor little munchkin Bridey. I have never heard Bridey make sounds of pain, but she does today. I can't get her to pee or poop but I have to trust her - she looks at me with her little monkey eyes and just asks that I pick her back up. Breaks my heart but I do know she should be okay - vet said it looked very acute, so no arthritis all ready there from her bearing more weight on the right after having her left knee done last year. Sigh - our poor babies - you all believe they know we have done this for them, right? The bright spot of my day - the SIMONE story! She arrived at the new farm yesterday. DJ, my beloved young horse starter, called me and was laughing so hard I had to wait a minute before she could talk. She said this: "Simone came off the trailer, and looked around and then marched through the barn to her paddock. She went into the paddock and saw, or rather, located, where she had water, and hay, and once that was determined, said to me - 'human, you can leave now, I am fine" !! She did not run around, she barely trotted her perimeter. Meanwhile my horses, a 15 and 20 year old, are running around THEIR paddocks with tails raised, hysterical about the new arrival. Nope, not Simone. Said to me just leave me, I am fine, I have all I need." And today, after no riding for a month, DJ worked her on the ground for 10 minutes and then rode her for 10 minutes and said she was a star. How many of you have had - and I know you all have had - these mares, and I do believe they are always mares - who just are so sure of themselves that they have not a nanosecond of insecurity? And does that make them harder to train or ??? I move down to SP 4 days a week coming next weekend. I will start actually training this piece of work coming soon Meanwhile PJ thrives as a soon to be 17 hand three year old and Boy lives the life of riley in CA!!!Merry Merry all!!!!!!!!!!! |
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| Witchy | Dec 8 2008, 08:35 AM Post #2 |
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You're BANNED!
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for Bridey and for Simone. It's nice when they take everthing in stride.I think it's time for more PJ pictures... Edited by Witchy, Dec 8 2008, 08:36 AM.
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| La Gringa | Dec 8 2008, 06:13 PM Post #3 |
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Starving Artist
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Good to hear about Simone, jingles for Bridey. Any recent photos of your filly? |
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| 2Dogs | Dec 9 2008, 07:14 PM Post #4 |
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We're on a bridge, Chaaaaaaaaarlie!
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umm, photos of the furry beast???? I think NOT! Let me get her clipped and I MIGHT take a shot or two of her! She has been growing - soo, even at 3.5 - we are at an, shall I say, awkward stage Riding is good though! I go down next weekend for the full move in. I am sooooo excited PJ is a dear - growing again too! Soon he will be the size of a woolly mammoth I will take pictures of his "hugeness" soon.Bridey is walking a bit! Boy thrives in California. The disparate family is so engaging - the different personalities! I am enjoying the two (who are VERY different) and look forward to the third "child" coming East.
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| La Gringa | Dec 10 2008, 12:05 PM Post #5 |
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Starving Artist
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Zuni is a furry beast too, I hear you. |
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| 2Dogs | Jan 19 2009, 08:02 PM Post #6 |
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We're on a bridge, Chaaaaaaaaarlie!
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ahh, another update. I will share. Very cold here for NC and I toodle down to Southern Pines as I do for days at a time, and as trainer busy, I decide on the past frigid Saturday that I will lunge said youngster Simone and then take her out on the Foundation. Done it before, she has been a quite perfect 3 year old. NOT! She fooled me on the lunge as she was quite behaved. I then believed her and mounted for a ride out. As we entered a field to enter the foundation, a truck rumbled by the dirt road behind us. Oh, my mistake, not ONE truck but two, and one with a trailer. I could feel the tension mount - and then it happened, the buck and the - yes - the up on two legs!!! Yikes - thank gosh for my cowgirl training at an early age Over in a nanosecond, but now, I am out in the wilderness with a BEAST. And I hardly know my way around the 4,000 acres. Needless to say, my teeth were clenched as I made my way through Denny's cross country field, hoping that no one was schooling - praise the above, alors, no one was! Yet my little devil in bay was head shaking a few times (which we corrected with some sharp right turns). I made it home. I took a hot shower Today, I decided that trainer of all trainers was to ride her while I took out a much more accomodating mount. Of course, Simone was a princess - was shown little wild logs in the Foundation and after one look, said: "a mere nothing I shall trot". I told dear trainer that while I am the owner-mother, she, the trainer, is : "she who must be obeyed".... thank goodness for trainers!!
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Meanwhile PJ thrives as a soon to be 17 hand three year old
and Boy lives the life of riley in CA!!!



Let me get her clipped and I MIGHT take a shot or two of her! She has been growing - soo, even at 3.5 - we are at an, shall I say, awkward stage
Riding is good though! I go down next weekend for the full move in. I am sooooo excited
is so engaging - the different personalities! I am enjoying the two (who are VERY different) and look forward to the third "child" coming East.
Over in a nanosecond, but now, I am out in the wilderness with a BEAST. And I hardly know my way around the 4,000 acres.
7:51 AM Jul 11