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Re: Appys and Arabs
From my experiences with both of these breeds, I would be afraid to cross
them. Give them opposable thumbs and they could very well take over the
world!
Absolutely the mostest perfectest Appy even was my dearly departed Wildfire
(b. 10/1983 - d. 7/25/1999). And I'm not biased at all.
The first time I laid eyes on him, a scrawny pure white weanling, he bit me.
Hard. Drew blood. It was love at first sight! (("No Mommy, I don't want
the sweet already halter broke bay with the socks. I want THAT ONE!!!"))
Mean as a snake!!! Couldn't be trusted within 10 feet of the unwary guest.
Dumped my boyfriend/later husband/later ex-husband into a pile of cactus,
deliberately. Stopped in the middle of a overpass with my father, and
refused to budge, deliberately. Stopped in the middle of the pasture with
my mother and refused to budge, you guessed it, again deliberately. Too
smart for his own good. Highly opinioniated. Definitely knew my place in
our partnership.
But came running when I called softly, neighing loudly, jumped 3 ft with me,
4+ with my sister (I was too chicken to go higher than 3'), took me to
regionals in western pleasure, western riding, and halter, took my sister to
state in pole bending and goat tying. Swam creeks, climbed mountains,
killed snakes, chased dogs, terrorized cows. Only got to do one LD before
he died, as I just discovered endurance, but he would of been a great one.
If a non-approved person entered the pasture, he'd sneak up behind and bite
or come tearing from the trees, and pass sooooo close, the person invaribly
fell down scrambling away. Could only be led if the lead was wrapped around
his nose, or if a chain across it. Otherwise, just might take it into his
head to go "that a-way instead this a-way" and be damned if the person on
the end of the rope could actually stop him. Definitly the Lord of the
Manor.
Rocking chair canter, good traveling walk, trotted nice when he felt like
it, like a jackhammer if he was pissed. Perfect bareback horse. Ugly head,
almost roman nosed, nice eye, decent ears. Gorgeous color when grown, sure
was ugly until then. Started out white with no markings until 5 then palest
buttermilk palomino with large snowy blanket and gold spots.
My newest love?
a 1999 BLUE STAR filly. Love at first sight. Again. And she didn't even
have to bit me to get my attention! And just like Wildfire, she knows I'm
hooked. Nickers when she sees me, pins her ears at everyone else. To smart
for her own good and knows it. Chases dogs, bit a cat, terrorizes the pony.
Forget being Lady of the Manor, she's God Herself and doesn't mind letting
you know her opinion on Life, the Universe, and the current state of her
feed bucket. Definitely knows my place in our partnership.
Good overstride at a walk, incredible trot. Going to be too wide for a
comfy bareback horse. Great head, huge nostrils, incredible black-lined
eyes, large strongly shaped ears. Kind of an ugly rose grey right now,
should be a crisp grey touch white by 5.
Heaven help if those two personalities ever accidentaly became lodged in the
same horse!
-Tamara
"I live in my own little world, but that's okay, they all know me here."
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