Critters at the riding school

[mountaingal]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Diabolical_Tanya</div><div class="ubbcode-body"> your daughter is simply beautiful Mgee

Nice pics too thanks so much for sharing, you actually make the blackbird look pretty or maybe unno have different black birds than we have up here </div></div>
thanks, anyat. the blackbird look that way because of the angle/light. it was probably a male, too.

[schultz]

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Awww! MGeee your daughter is beautiful.....

[kia027]

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your little one is beautiful MGEE and the horses wow!

girlKia is interested in riding horses and I have been hesitant for her to do so but I think I may just let her get in a week this summer. maybe..

[f0rTyLeGz]

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Lovely daughter, and how great that she's into riding horses! Bravo to you!

[Bandana]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: MGee</div><div class="ubbcode-body">luke and my kid after the schooling show on Sunday. they got a 3rd out of 11 in the 6-jump class and 6th place in the walk-trot-canter-1jump class. luke was very skittery and my kid had a hard time keeping him calm. he was good with the jumps, though.

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Wow, I know this post is about the critters, but I must say your daughter is BEAUTIFUL MG!

[Bandana]

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LOL...


Looks like I'm not the only one distracted from the critters

[mountaingal]

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thanks schultz, kia, forty and bandanna. dawta#2 pretty in looks and spirit - she's a very sensible girl, way more than i was at her age, lol.

kia - if ur daughter likes horses then go for it. the only thing is that it's expensive.

[QK13]

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(((MGee))) Both your girls were lovely when I met you, now it looks like they're growing into beautiful young women. You knoh seh dem muss get ie fram yuh!!

I LOVED horses when I was young. Still love them but don't ride them anymore. We used to do trail rides at a local place maybe once a month. What fun!!

Definitely go for it with Girl Kia. It's awesome fun.

[mountaingal]

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thanks quickie. gosh that seems so long ago now, when we met up at G2 yard. yes, the girls them big now. dawta #1 just got offered a spot in university to study kinesiology. and dawta#2, the rider, is getting ready for her last year of high school.

i rode a little bit when i was younger but is yeaaaaars now i haven't been on a horse. last time was in JA in port antonio over 20 yrs ago, riding in the interior. it was nice, one of these days...

[kia027]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: MGee</div><div class="ubbcode-body">thanks schultz, kia, forty and bandanna. dawta#2 pretty in looks and spirit - she's a very sensible girl, way more than i was at her age, lol.

kia - if ur daughter likes horses then go for it. the only thing is that it's expensive.
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i bit the bullet and signed her up for a one week camp. They asked for her height and I was like.. ahmmm 4 ft something..

[mountaingal]

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a camp is a good way to start. hope girlkia enjoys it. her height might be an issue only in the kind of horse she gets, but i see nuff small fry on some big horses at our school.

[SistahD]

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Daughter looking good!! Glad she is enjoying, I loved riding (although I preferred Western to English)

[mountaingal]

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RIP Luke.

couple months ago when a bunch of us were getting ready for class, we noticed that Luke was rolling around in his stall. one of the barn workers went to him, chatted gently with him, and got him to stand up. Luke rubbed his face against the barn worker`s leg. but in no time he was back down again. we called the office administrator, and she immediately put him on a lead and led him outside - because apparently, horses, if they roll around too much, their intestines get twisted, and it could get fatal.

they noticed Luke had a swelling on his jaw. that it was bothering him we could tell, because although he was being led around on the grass (while they waited for the vet), he wasn`t eating, and horses love to eat grass, they`ll even eat with a bit in their mouth. poor Luke.

we left and when we went back the next week, Luke had this horrible scar on his jaw - apparently, he had an abcess, and they cut it from the outside. it looked horrible. Luke was a bit better, but still wasn`t eating very much.

dawta took a break from the riding school for September, and yesterday was our first day back. naturally, i asked about Luke. He had been put down on Friday.

His abcess had gone into the jawbone and wasn`t getting better, despite repeated surgery. Luke was suffering, so they made the decision to spare him any further suffering.

devastating news. he was an old horse (22yrs), and as said in my original post from May, his better days were behind him. but he had personality that made my daughter love him.

at least he`s out of pain now



<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: MGee</div><div class="ubbcode-body">luke and my kid after the schooling show on Sunday. they got a 3rd out of 11 in the 6-jump class and 6th place in the walk-trot-canter-1jump class. luke was very skittery and my kid had a hard time keeping him calm. he was good with the jumps, though.

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[CeaBee]

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RIP ((Luke)))

[mountaingal]

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the good news from yesterday was that Potsi, my daughter`s other love, is healed and rehabilitated, and back in action. he had an abcess in his back hoof caused by stepping on a nail, and it took months of healing and riding him to stretch out the tendon (it got tight from him holding up the foot too much). they put him in Luke`s stall. he`s doing kiddie rides now, the school has a new crop of little girls wanting to ride horses.


Potsi now


<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: MGee</div><div class="ubbcode-body">potsi, who's sick. he doesn't like his pic taken.


his bum back leg, still healing
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