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Post by lucara on Apr 8, 2008 23:54:24 GMT -5
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stano40
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Post by stano40 on Apr 9, 2008 7:57:30 GMT -5
Congratulations on a job well done. It takes dedication to rescue an animal and bring them back to health.
Samson looks fantastic. All my life I have wanted to own a horse but if I can't provide the proper care and facility I just won't put an animal into neglect.
Are those your stables? They are awesome to see.
Thanks for sharing.
bob/stano40
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Post by prismwolf on Apr 9, 2008 9:03:39 GMT -5
Will have to look at the pics later...but I've been to the Dixie Stampede in Chattanooga. You would think for a place so hugely popular and raking in the jack that they would care for their animals better. It's wonderful he's found a home with you. Once he fully adjusts he should be an excellent horse. He would need to be a well-trained and good-tempered horse to be a part of a show like that.
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Post by lucara on Apr 9, 2008 9:37:41 GMT -5
Actually you would be suprised. You can always tell the horses who have been at Dixie the longest; they we're always the meanest. That show killed everything about those horses. Not only were alot of them severly injured to the point of being lame for life, but it killed their spirit. We had 36 horses at the Orlando Dixie and only 5 of those still had any spirit left in them and the riders assumed that spirit was just them being headstrong and did everything they could to end it. The money isn't what they needed. They needed someone to actually give a snot about them. Everyday of every year those horses had to do that show. They only got, at most, one week off a year. They had rotating turn outs which ment they only got out once a week. You take a horse that just ran a marathon on and immediately throw him in his is stall. Those horses had a lot of medical problems. They find ways to cope with what their given though. General would cribb, Dan would weave in his stall, Little Jow would lip his water bowl for hours, Steal would sit with his ears pinned 24 hours a day, Samson bit anyone that would come near him.
Dixies idea of "training" is do as much as possible so that they can get in the show as soon as possible. All of their drafts come from the Ahmish so they have to get them used to EVERYTHING so, they stick the horse in the arena, throw on all the flashing lights, loud noises, and fireworks all at once. They do that day after day, scareing the horse stickless* but it desensitizes them quicker. For the riding horses, if you have ever seen the show, they put the horse in the middle of all the others during training and just run through the practice. Unfortunately 99.9% of all the horses that come to Dixie, arn't used to being smashed in between 6 other horses and when they mess up, they get beaten. Everything at Dixie is fast and full of ego. I think out of the 30+ riders we had, only 4 had any real riding experience. If something goes wrong in the show, Obviously its horses fault!, and they beat the horse. I've seen horses nearly run into walls by mad riders, I've seen them smacked with sweat scrapes, crotch swatted, to the point of where they are shaking. Dixie was horrible to their animals and there we're very few who tried to change that. Unfortunately, there is only so much you can do in a situation like that.
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Post by lucara on Apr 9, 2008 9:48:12 GMT -5
Stano - no I am boarding over at that stables. It was the nicest stables I could find for the smallest amount of money. Its $250 a month for full board. I work off the extra $50 to cover the feed by cleaning his stall.
I appologize about going on a rant about the whole Dixie thing. I know a lot of people think its a magical place but all you see are muscled, well groomed horses. You dont see what they go through. And when I said they do that show every day, Dixie does over half of their shows 5x's a day. They dont have alternating horses.
I'm most passionate about Samson because that horse has been at Dixie for over 3 years and they've had riders there for longer than that who didnt even know we had a horse named Samson! He was left out in the pasture for 2 years with no source of shelter and the bare minimum human contanct of people shoving him out of the way to get their horses in or out of the field. He obviously wasnt starved as hes a fatty but never being groomed for over a year has its problems too. After I bought him a friend mentioned getting his teeth floated since Dixie wasnt big on their horses teeth. Apparently Samson hasn't had his teeth floated in over 4 years. The vet was amazed he could still eat..and now I'm ranting again. >.<
Anyway! Hes happy and cared for now like he should be along with the few horses that we're sold off from Dixie. The other horses we're split up between the other Dixie Stampedes.
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Post by reptileluvva on Apr 9, 2008 14:39:40 GMT -5
glad he's found you,
he's obviously keeping weight well.and your caring for him exceptionally well,its good that some people bother about these animals.i have various rescued animals including a 5yr old percheron x, 10yr old danish warmblood and 9month old shire x clydesdale all rescued.well done sammys sure to have a fab life now for as long as he lives.great pics by the way
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