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<blockquote data-quote="Shari" data-source="post: 311299" data-attributes="member: 1848"><p>We want to breed our fainting goat again, Abbs, maybe I can send you a fainting baby! (Please name it something more creative than "GoatGoat")</p><p> </p><p>There are a few "horsey" people on the board. I'm one. We don't have anything fancy, just trail riders and a buggy team, and I've started mounted shooting, tho with a difficult child, my progress in the sport is slow (but that's ok, its my "therapy").</p><p> </p><p>I didn't realize it then, but when difficult child 1 was growing up, horses were a big part of our bond. We spent hours and hours a week together doing horse things. His dad always wanted to punish him by selling his horse, and that was where I drew the line...something deep in my gut felt that if I lost that connection to him, I'd lose him, and he rode with me frequently and stayed very involved til he was 17.</p><p> </p><p>difficult child 2 came along and when he first started riding with me at 4months old, he was content on a horse like no where else. He was a hyper little guy from the word go, but could sit on the back of a horse for 10 hours a day and never complain. He's 7 now, but that first couple of years, he'd just sit there with me, allowing me to hold him close (he wasn't a snuggler) and chew on the end of the rains and click at my poor mare who was pretty close to senile by the time he stopped riding her (from being clicked at to go faster and then immediately told to slow down...over and over and over and over...lol poor girl. She should be sainted.)</p><p> </p><p>We did 2 or 3 years of therapeutic riding, but as he got to be a better rider, he got a little bored in the confines of the arena, so we stopped.</p><p> </p><p>We just got him a younger old horse (his previous horse was 30+) and he's looking forward to an overnight trail ride in the near future. His saddle bags are packed (with the ever present binoculars) and hanging in the trailer, waiting to go. I took him on our first "solo" outing (just he and I alone) 3 years ago this month and it was the longest 10 mile ride I've ever been on...we stopped every 200 yards to "look at nature" thru the binoculars. But hey, who's complaining...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Shari, post: 311299, member: 1848"] We want to breed our fainting goat again, Abbs, maybe I can send you a fainting baby! (Please name it something more creative than "GoatGoat") There are a few "horsey" people on the board. I'm one. We don't have anything fancy, just trail riders and a buggy team, and I've started mounted shooting, tho with a difficult child, my progress in the sport is slow (but that's ok, its my "therapy"). I didn't realize it then, but when difficult child 1 was growing up, horses were a big part of our bond. We spent hours and hours a week together doing horse things. His dad always wanted to punish him by selling his horse, and that was where I drew the line...something deep in my gut felt that if I lost that connection to him, I'd lose him, and he rode with me frequently and stayed very involved til he was 17. difficult child 2 came along and when he first started riding with me at 4months old, he was content on a horse like no where else. He was a hyper little guy from the word go, but could sit on the back of a horse for 10 hours a day and never complain. He's 7 now, but that first couple of years, he'd just sit there with me, allowing me to hold him close (he wasn't a snuggler) and chew on the end of the rains and click at my poor mare who was pretty close to senile by the time he stopped riding her (from being clicked at to go faster and then immediately told to slow down...over and over and over and over...lol poor girl. She should be sainted.) We did 2 or 3 years of therapeutic riding, but as he got to be a better rider, he got a little bored in the confines of the arena, so we stopped. We just got him a younger old horse (his previous horse was 30+) and he's looking forward to an overnight trail ride in the near future. His saddle bags are packed (with the ever present binoculars) and hanging in the trailer, waiting to go. I took him on our first "solo" outing (just he and I alone) 3 years ago this month and it was the longest 10 mile ride I've ever been on...we stopped every 200 yards to "look at nature" thru the binoculars. But hey, who's complaining... [/QUOTE]
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