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Post by VeronicaF on Jul 22, 2016 8:01:28 GMT 1
Did it take a long time to find the right one? or was something you hadn;t planned,? was it love at first sight? or did it take a while?
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Post by antares on Jul 22, 2016 21:08:12 GMT 1
Love at first sight! Although he was a scraggy 6 month old colt - I was just lost in his eyes  Same now 7 years on What about you v? |
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Post by VeronicaF on Jul 22, 2016 22:30:59 GMT 1
well this is a hard one. the ones I have lost are still close to my heart but talking about little lins now Sunshine was love at first sight, she stood away from the ones that came forward she had a worry look in her eyes and you could see she didn't trust anyone. I understood her. she was the one I wanted I knew I would gain her trust and take her worries away and protect her from any harm. #I got ella from somewhere else as sunshine needed a companion,with ella it was a bit diffrenet,she was very cute but full on,very in your space,on her hind legs at you.a bit of a handful. and sounds awful but I wasn't sure if I wanted her. to people its cute but living with even a tiny minituare behaving in that way could be a bit of a nightmare,and not so cute. but after having ollie and the experince I had gained from Kelly-IH and IH courses. to those who don't know the story- you see years ago I had a little wild foal who landed in my garden,as back then I lived on common land that came right to my front door,and ollies mum died and he ended up in my garden. lonely,hungry and needing a home. but with no experince in how to look after him or handle him and mothering him like a human baby,he got a bit of a handful. he stopped being so cute and became a bit of a nightmare. but Kelly and IH came to the recuse. and then I went on to some of the IH courses,so with that experince and knowing more than I used to,I decided to have her,and I can say she is turning into a sweetheart for all the right reasons. she now knows she isn't a human. so thats my little lins |
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Post by hislordshipsmum on Jul 25, 2016 9:39:05 GMT 1
Was it love at first sight with Harry - nope!! And even after about a year didn't even like him much (which makes me very sad now). I think at the time I felt I was under pressure to get another horse after loosing my lovely cob Apollo (now he was love at first sight) and just thought Harry would be a nice safe cob to ride - how wrong was I.
Even now don't know why we got him (at the time), but we all grew to love him once we began to understand him. He's certainly been a challenge but it's all been worth it and perhaps he's even more special because of what we had to do to gain his trust and love.
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Post by heidi on Aug 29, 2016 22:54:16 GMT 1
I won the covering that produced her, in a raffle!
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Post by VeronicaF on Aug 30, 2016 10:28:18 GMT 1
WOW heidi what a way to having your girl.
please share all about her and photos
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Post by heidi on Aug 31, 2016 0:00:07 GMT 1
She is the foal in my signature strip and also the last one in the strip! Unfortunately, right from the day she was born, she was very fond of rearing. She practised loads, when loose in the field, so was very good at it! She grew out of it inhand, but I rode her for a year and eventually decided it wasn't worth the risk to myself or passing car drivers! So she has spent most of her life as a rather beautiful field ornament! On the plus side, I fell in love with her mum, while I had her on loan, bought her 4 years later and had lots of fun with her!
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Post by christine0810 on Aug 31, 2016 13:49:36 GMT 1
After losing Crystal we thought we would never find another one quite like her, and we haven't! we have however found the rather beautiful Illiah (Illy for short and Rhequiemme for her 'posh' name) she's a 5 year old anglo arab but high % arab........and a chestnut to boot. We have Prince who was given to us by a friend who could no longer cope with looking after her horses due to health problems, and we have since acquired 2 cobs 1 coloured one Oero and 1 black one Dylan, who have come on quite a way since the day we bought them as scraggy little 2 year olds. The latest is Miss Petal and little 13 hander who is welsh x arab and has an attitude as well.........she may be small but she wants to be the boss! Petal is a field ornament at the moment as she has been a brood mare all her life and isn't used to being ridden, we have shown her in hand a couple of times but thats all.
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Post by mrbsmum on Sept 3, 2016 14:41:26 GMT 1
The little coloured mini in my signature was an accident - he moved into a field next door to my house as a yearling, and was meant to be being exported to Germany to live with his new owners a couple of months later. The months passed, and he was still there, all on his own - by this point I'd got quite attached to him, as I'd recently moved away from home and left behind the family horses, so was feeling bereft of equine company. I was acting as eyes on the ground for his breeder, and we both started to realise that the people who bought him were clearly never going to come and pick him up, so eventually she spoke to them and just said that if they didn't want him, there was someone else who would take him. They said OK, and then suddenly I found myself the owner of a very small pony. I had no plans to get anything of my own at the time, but I would have been devastated to see him go. He was my little pal by that point.
Number two I found because having got one, I needed a second for company- he was being monitored by the SSPCA having been on the verge of starving to death the winter prior - and was a bit of a hard luck case as he has allopecia, and needs quite a lot of care. I needed a pony, and he badly needed a home, so I took him. He wasn't quite what I was after (who goes looking for a bald pony really though!) but he's such a little star I have no regrets.
My third and most recent aquisition was also something of a surprise. I knew her owner, who had bought her over from Iceland as a yearling with the intention to breed from her, but had then decided she was not quite what she was after and decided to start her and sell her as a riding horse instead. Last year I'd made up my mind that I was going to start saving for an Icelandic for my own riding horse, having ridden a friends for a few years, so I spoke to her owner to ask if I could pop out to see her horses, mostly as an indulgent form of window shopping - in my head I was thinking I would be able to afford to buy in about 4 years (and I new she had a new foal that year that might have been ready at about the time I was thinking!). While I was out there she mentioned that she was thinking of starting and selling this mare, and asked if I wanted to meet her - which I did. At the time she was quite aloof and did not want to talk to me at all, but something about her just clicked, and when I went home I told my husband I thought I'd met my future horse (although I still had no idea how I was going to buy her!). I was sort of resigned to losing her as we'd just bought a house and got married, so the savings were dry - but her owner keeps a regular blog, so I started cyber stalking her on there instead! Once they'd started training her I could tell she was turning out to be a little star - and one day I casually sent my mum a link to one of the blog pages asking her if she'd like to buy me this horse for Christmas (I was joking!) and to my surprise she told me to contact the owner and arrange to try her. Two days later I'd put a deposit on her - and I brought her home in April once her initial training was done. Still pinching myself that it actually happened - it's been just over a year since I saw her for the first time, and I was sure I was going to have to watch someone else buy her and take her away. Thankfully my Mum is horse mad too, so she understood what I meant when you find the one. She's such a super, sensible, fun little horse - I'm very very lucky to have her.
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