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[evile]

Aug. 31, 2005

 

 

evile: hey :)
SkyeDS: hola
evile: [Aunt L] said the service for her friend/coworker yesterday was
nice. Her husband brought their dog, and she laid down in the grass
between his chair on the front row and the casket. That made me cry a
little.
SkyeDS: Andrew Jackson's parrot got thrown out of his funeral for
cussing
evile: aww!
SkyeDS: I know of at least one African Grey (they are arguably the
smartest of the parrots) who after attending the funeral and seeing
the body buried, asked every day for twelve years after, "Where's
Terri?"
evile: *nod* it's hard on the pets. They know something happened,
but they don't know what it is. They just know that people are sad.
evile: a lot like little kids, I guess. They don't understand that
their person is gone and can't come back.
SkyeDS: I wonder if they think that they have been abandoned because
they aren't loved anymore
evile: that's a sad thought. Maybe. :(
SkyeDS: we had one hell of a night last night and one hell of a
morning this morning
evile: really?
SkyeDS: and the next time that stud colt tears down my fence and gets
into my feed, I'm going to Walmart, I'm going to get a gun, and I'm
going to shoot him.
evile: not good!
SkyeDS: he tore down the fence and let the girls out this morning,
and Wayne and Connie knew about it for nearly a half hour before we
found out about it
SkyeDS: they made no effort to catch them, did not call us, did not
come knock on the door.
SkyeDS: plus they know that he gets out regularly.
SkyeDS: he gets cut THIS WEEKEND or I shoot him.
evile: wow.
SkyeDS: I am not going to be having lost horses, injured horses, or
pregnant mares.
SkyeDS: I am not.
evile: *nod*
evile: it's unfortunate that so many animal owners are so
irresponsible.
SkyeDS: I don't want to make enemies out of them. But this is not
the way friends behave.
evile: *nod*
SkyeDS: plus that colt makes almost daily trips to the vet because
Wayne and Connie won't listen to me about safety.
SkyeDS: because, ya know, I don't know what the hell I'm talking
about, obviously.
SkyeDS: it's like, trying to talk to someone whose boyfriend abused
all his other women before her.
evile: that sucks.
SkyeDS: "well, he hasn't hit me, he won't hit me, I'm special, even
if he did hit everyone else."
SkyeDS: whatever.
SkyeDS: yet.
SkyeDS: one syllable. yet.
SkyeDS: barbed wire = when, not if, when. I learned that the hard
way myself. I used to be belligerent about it too, until I had the
trip to the hospital over it.
SkyeDS: leaving halters on in pasture = when, not if. Laura knows a
woman who left her halter on her 3 yo Arab for all 3 years she had
her, "She's worn it for 3 years, nothing's happened" until the day
she got it caught on a gate and broke her neck
SkyeDS: not her leg, which can be fixed now in some cases, her neck.
SkyeDS: until they get their fences fixed they've got Shorty tied to
a tree with rope.
SkyeDS: that's asking for broken legs and neck at worst and rope
injuries (very nasty) at best, right there.
SkyeDS: I TOLD them t hat a safe method of ground tying that I've
seen demonstrated on trail is to take a cinder block, tie 20 feet of
rope through it, put rubber hose (not garden hose, pure rubber) the
entire length of the rope, fill in both parts of the cinder block
with concrete (horse can't get hoof inside it that way, a nd it makes
it heavier)
evile: *nod*
SkyeDS: the rubber hose keeps the horse from doing damage with the
rope
SkyeDS: and it isn't like this is going to break the bank
SkyeDS: so what does Wayne do?
evile: yup
SkyeDS: ties him up with bare rope to a boat anchor
SkyeDS: there was one trip to the vet right there.
evile: sad.
SkyeDS: sineater says he's got stitches and proud flesh the entire length
of his neck now, who the hell knows how he did that.
evile: yuck.
SkyeDS: he gets cut, or he goes away.
SkyeDS: I've of half a mind to wait until W&C are both gone to just
take him out and drive him to LSER or somewhere
SkyeDS: they don't get that if they cut him, he wouldn't be so driven
to hurt himself trying to escape anymore.
evile: *nod*
SkyeDS: I know Connie wants a horse badly. I UNDERSTAND that.
Better than anybody else maybe.
evile: yeah.
SkyeDS: http://www.lser.org/Aztec.htm - do love black and whites
evile: pretty :)
SkyeDS: black and white pinto / Arab crosses = very pretty
evile: I bet :)
SkyeDS: the trick trainers are very fond of black and white
pintabians. For two reasons. Half - Arab = smart, very trainable.
Black/White Pinto = flashy appearance.
evile: makes sense :)
evile: Well, time for me to get gone, about.
*hugs* take care of you.
SkyeDS: wind to your wings :)