Do you ever wish you didn't own a horse/

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Having spent the last 3 weeks with what seems like an endless cold, I found myself struck with the feeling that I've only had once before.

My lovely but rather stupid boy is recovering from a DDFT and operations on both stifles (One good leg left !) meaning that at the moment he is only being hacked out with small amount of schooling.

Anyway I have to keep the movement through the joints and he's a bit of a handful , so only I ride him. Yesterday in the rain while I was feeling particularly awful we went for a short hack, when we got to a particularly mean looking tree stump.

Been there for ages, he has a look usually but this time - no way dad - too scarey, so followed spinning and walking backwards etc. I tried everything - (even used my stick on him which is rare). Eventually I got off and tried to lead him past. No joy.

Cold wet and miserable I had that feeling of WHY DO I DO THIS?! He just looked at me with his cheeky face , I got back on and we went home. All was forgiven by dismount. I think I've only felt like this before once when lying in the cold wet sand of the arena with a cracked elbow after being thrown. (Different horse).

What drives you to this point or is it just me
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yes.... the last few weeks have been hard. I've not wanted to anything with my horses, i barely even got out of the car to check them (i did do this however) but we lost my first pony on friday afternoon, which has given me a massive kick up the back side. I took my mare out of a little hack yesterday afternoon, and remembered why I fell in love with the sport.
 
Yes, to be honest, the last few weeks while the weather has been horrific and I have had bronchitis, felt crap, got wet and cold within seconds of being at the yard and hardly ridden! I keep my self going by looking through all my pics of the summer when the horses looked fab, we had long evenings at the stables after work and it makes it seem worthwhile. Chin up, once christmas is out of the way the days start to get a little longer and the end is in sight!
 
No, I'm actually an eternal optimist when it comes to horses. After losing a long battle with lameness with my gelding, replacing him with a mare who repeatedly floored me then also quickly started on the same lameness path, it was suggested many times that I should feel like giving up. I really never, ever do. I think I'm weird though.
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Yes, this morning at 8am when it was blowing fit to bust and lashing down. I'm thinking why did I bother to enter dressage today???? But now its bright blue sky and sunny so we won't get soaked at Addington later
 
My horse has always been my No1 but i now have a baby so most days are like oh why do i do this????? but wen baby is in car or with child minder i get to the yard and really enjoy it plus couldnt bare selling her ...think im just greedy and want every thing he he keep your chin up tho we all go through it...except flame- good luck x
 
Yep, pouring with rain and blowing a gale this morning, and all I wanted to do was turn over an pull the duvet over my head instead of struggling out to feed/turnout/muck out. Neither nags are flippin rideable either. But I am focusing on it all being lovely again when spring arrives (even if they still arent rideable, useless lumps. Love em really though
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i have felt like this in the last week ans its not really fair on my horse i love him sooo much but i just give up sometimes when theres a hurdle to climb, i moved livery yards last week and he has been a little turd!! he kicked the guy at the livery yard etc so full of himself. i was going t move him back today but luckily the yo's told me to get a grip lol and give him more of a chance they are absolutely right he is only a baby i dont care what he does to me but its just not acceptable to do it to the people who help me out. think work is just getting to me as its so busy due to xmas etc i love him to much to get rid although i considered it last night
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I love you all - and 99.9% of drivers on the roads around the yard who have given him the space he needs as I have been hacking him from box rest the last 3 months. (I think he believes tarmac is the place to audition for Strictly!)
 
Yes...deffinately over the last 2 months...I have struggled so much to balance my lads laminitis, lack of eating at times, mud everywhere on restricted grazing, him being very frustrated and bored, major problems with COPD, heartbar shoes coming off in the mud etc etc.
I have had many a cry, many a rant and many times could not see the wood through the trees...I have the hell of getting him back into work soon in this awful weather when he will be like a coiled spring...dreading it but I keep plodding on and counting the days to better weather and light in the mornings and evenings.
 
Yep. My lad is on box rest at the moment having fractured his pedal bone and this is going to take about 6 months to sort out. He's only 3 and I had just started to do things with him. He's now like a giant hamster. Some days I feel particularly sorry for myself as I lost my mare to colic last year and before that my gelding to a broken leg. I also look at 'normal' people (well lets face it we re not are we?) and see them buying nice clothes and not smelling of pony wee and think that i could have had a lovely hair do with the £110 that I have just had to pay for a special shoe. However I can't give up. Have never managed more than a month without wanting another. This sounds really silly probably but I remember one morning a few years ago at about 5.30am standing watching the horses and it started to snow and it was really beautiful and how many people have moments like that? They are inside watching GMTV or in bed. The best moments of my life and some of my most treasured memories have been with my horses and I don't want to be one of those people who say there hobbies are shopping and watching telly. Although it would be nice not to smell of pony wee sometimes............
 
In May 2008 i had to have my beloved 30yr mare pts which was bad enough and then in August 2008 my youngster fractured her pedal bone at which point i thought 'what s the point', in the space of 3 months i felt i had lost everything.

For the 9 months my youngster was on box rest i was never sure whether she would come sound, the box rest brought on other complications (stifle lock, muscle wastage etc) and there seemed to be no end.

On the day i got back on my youngster and we had a little ride round the school i felt such a feeling of joy, its been 6 months now and she is coming on in leaps and bounds, so although i may moan about the weather (coz it has been bad) i never wish that i didn't own a horse, i absolutely love owning my horse.
 
oh I wish I owned "A" horse instead of 4!
The dream of our own place and horses at home feels like a bit of a nightmare at the moment. I guess it is winter blues but I sometimes wonder why we do it!
 
Yes can relate to this. My mare has been on box rest since April through several problems, one after the other. In Sept she was diagnosed with a tear in her DDFT via MRI scan and we are now in the 3rd month since that. We are now at the increased walking round the stable block stage. Believe me its not a lot of fun dong this 3 times per day and in the dark at night when its blowing a gale. Guess I will have fun when the riding starts from box rest, she will be a rival in the horsey Strictly comp.

Keep your chin up, I am and looking forwards to Spring. Cant wait to get on her again and maybe let her be a horse and go back into a field eventually, been a long time since March when she last went out.
 
Can relate to this but not through horse injury.

A week ago I wrote my car off and now have two train rides, a bus trip and 8 miles of walking (round trip) to get to the yard and back all to be done before 10am which is when I leave for work. I'm up at 4.30am, can't even think about riding (don't have the time or energy) and can't afford to replace the car so there is no end in sight either. Lord knows what I'm going to do over Xmas
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Its made me realise, though, that the way I live is crazy - I have no life outside of horses, spend every single penny I earn on my hobby and every waking minute rushing around from one place to the next. Hopefully this will give me the kick up the arse I need to make some changes and sort things out.
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Yes! Recently had 2nd baby, was spending all my time looking after various animals and children, getting up at 6am to muck out, trying to lose baby weight etc. etc.

It passes though. Last night, my lovely mare (who is grazing in the garden), came right up to the kitchen window and whickered very loudly and repeatedly for more food.

My husband had to get up and go out in the pouring rain and get hay while she trotted back to her shelter with him.

Made me remember why I do both husbands and horses!
 
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