Post by Alenka on Oct 16, 2014 18:39:50 GMT -5
Hello Friends!
I've been lurking the board off and on for the last little while. I'm sorry to hear of those who have passed, and enjoyed catching up on the youngsters who are (like my son) No longer youngsters!!
My son is now 5 years old. He's grown like a weed and is in Senior Kindergarten. We moves last year after I sold Cowboy to Stratford Ontario. Found out that the woman who had bought Cowboy from me, wanted to sell him 2 months later, when I struggled to make it work, she sold him to another person and didn't tell me who...
I ended up finding him in a profile picture on Facebook (wearing Tripper's blanket - which is what caught my eye and made me really LOOK at him) in February/March. He was skinny, but he looked loved. I emailed the girl and let her know I was here to help if she needed anything.
Fast track to July this past summer. Girl emails me and says that she is having issues with him not steering and being dead sided/hard mouthed. She said the saddle fitter had been out and she was using a saddle that was too small (Bless his heart for not dumping her). I come to find out she was well over 300lbs.
I told them to get a chiro out for him and give his back a rest.
I came out to the barn, he was soooo skinny. apparently the place she initially moved him to starved him and he had PUT ON 100lbs since arriving at the new barn. Made me sick to my stomach. I was there to help the girl in any way she needed for the following 3 weeks.
This snowballed into them spreading rumours like wildfire, saying I sold an unsound horse that needed chiro to stay sound. He had blown abcesses when the girl I originally sold him to rode him hard and long barefoot on gravel, and it all went downhill from there.
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Girl comes to me one morning and says that the woman at the barn say I'm a liar, and that she is going to sell him or put him down. She wants $1500 for him, and if I can't do it, then he'll go to market or be put down.
She changed her story a few times after that (she'd find a good home, she can't do it, she needs to lose weight, etc) but I broke down and called my mom.
We paid for him a week later and I brought him home. He's back in my life after a year and a bit, boarded at a small stable just 5 minutes from my place with fantastic barn owners who love me sofar and think Cowboy is a total doll.
We've worked on his weight and he's put on almost 200lbs since being mine. Thank you Brooks Feeds, Omega Flax & their Fit and Fiber plus flax oil and mss.
The saddle I started with... may not fit him anymore since his topline is back and his withers are back to being broad.
Here are some pics....
My son.... who has been having longe line lessons on him....
