Re: RC: Re: Breed bashing

[Bette Lamore <woa@stormnet.com>]

Excellent! Tamara
And I agree with you to a point. However, I still have to believe that
some traits are found more in one breed than others. When it is farrier
time, I find myself wishing I had quarter horses---not that my horses
are bad, but just so bright that they are easily bored. QH are also
bright--- perhaps they contemplate the wonders of the universe and
meaning of life while mine contemplate how to make me notice them even
more.
I've often said that the difference between a QH and an Arab is that you
ride your QH to Sunday brunch, tie him to the hitching post, and go in
for a leisurely meal only to return to find your friend patiently
waiting in the same position you left him.
I ride my Arab to a brunch and the first thing he does is look around
for a plaything (or a deadly weapon he can cut himself with), ask me if
I really expect him to just twiddle his thumbs in the sun while I go in
there and feed my face, looks at his watch and asks me just how long
I'll be in there, and BTW what do I expect him to do in the interim?! I
thank the heavens if I even find him in the same neighborhood, let alone
still tied to the hitching post upon my return!!!
Bette 
Bette Lamore
Whispering Oaks Arabians, Home of TLA Halynov
http://www.stormnet.com/~woa
I've learned that life is like a roll of toilet paper, the closer it
gets to the end, the faster it goes. Smell the roses!

Tamara Jane Habberley wrote:
> 
> funnily enough so am I for different reasons.  Why are people so dumb as to
> think what suits one horse, or make one horse behave in a certian way will
> affect another one in the same way?
> 
> Snmoe horses react to pain or abuse by fleeing (hence flightyness) and some
> by becoming passive. I dont think thats breed specific, just personality
> specific/
> 
> IMHO  if some one says a horse is 'dumb' because it seems insensative to its
> enviroment  I belive its often that that horse has totally tuned out of the
> situation to save its sanity.
> 
> Tamara
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: C Eyler <eyler@mindspring.com>
> To: Ridecamp <ridecamp@endurance.net>
> Sent: Saturday, April 22, 2000 7:58 PM
> Subject: RC: Breed bashing
> 
> > >  My gelding went through two other people before I
> > > found him as a 4 yr old.  He had been abused by some
> > > ignorant "cowboys" that were used to pushing around
> > > dumb Quarter Horses.
> >
> > I'm really tired of this kind of crap.  Arab folks get incensed when
> lovers
> > of other breeds characterize arabs as flighty and wild, but then some of
> > them trash other breeds in the same way.
> >
> > As always, the problem is the people involved, not the horses.
> >
> > Cindy
> >
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