Re: RC: horse living in the house

[Karen Clanin <kclanin@fix.net>]

you guys are missing a point here.  where do you think the arab got it's 
great disposition?  from its ancestors being raised "in the tent" with the 
bedouins of course.

now, 'story here.  i was expecing an important long distance phone call 
years ago.  on that day i also had to bathe and body clip the POA  pony for 
coming show, brought him down to the house from where we boarded (up the 
street) and of course the phone rang.  no time to tie him so  he went into 
the kitchen with me, i said:  "hello!  if you'll wait until i take the pony 
outside i'll be right back to you".  there was no answer and they never 
called back, sigh.  just not a good sport at all.

another time we had to keep a gelding cross tied for 10 days due to surgery 
on his leg, same location, not possible to do this where we boarded so we 
rigged up a cross tie in the back yard with a tarp cover for shade, cleared 
it with the neighbor on that side.  only way to get him to the back yard 
was, yep, you guessed it,  in the front door, through the living room and 
out the slider door to screened in porch and out to back yard.  he was an 
arab, ancestors raised in the tent, no problem.

'course, we've also had many newborn baby goats and lambs running around 
the house  as they got started on bottles.  nothing like nurse maid border 
collies following them around to clean up after them!!!!!

karen