Jingleballs
Well-Known Member
After months on indecision I've finally taken the step and put my amazing horse up for sale. 
For years he was my soul mate, my top priority and I used to practically run out of work every day - rain or shine - just to get to the yard and spend hours riding, grooming and pottering about with him. He took me from being a very nervous novice to getting out and competing in all disciplines. He was my life.
Nowadays due to family/lack of time I just don't have that drive or that bond anymore and while he's perfectly happy being worked a couple of times a week and living out with his herd, I'm more and more begining to see him more as a chore and worry about thinks like what if he gets injured - could I give him the time/cared needed.
It also hasn't helped that where I live nowdays there are no yards that meet all of our needs - you either have good facilities and crap grazing or vice versa which is what I have now but it means in the winter (and during this slightly rubbish summer) I rarely get to ride - making it even more difficult to motivate myself. The final straw was the yard basically renaguing on their promise to have a new arena for winter, not fixing the flooded drains, leaving stables, dodgy fencing and cutting back our grazing for the benefits of their other live stock and meaning that this winter, not only would I still have not facilities, but my horse wouldn't be able to live out as happily as he did this year.
So it's done - I've put him on a few free sites for now and I'm hoping that I get some genuine interest as that will make the whole process much easier.
I'm still riddled with guilt though - he owes me nothing and here I am passing him on
For years he was my soul mate, my top priority and I used to practically run out of work every day - rain or shine - just to get to the yard and spend hours riding, grooming and pottering about with him. He took me from being a very nervous novice to getting out and competing in all disciplines. He was my life.
Nowadays due to family/lack of time I just don't have that drive or that bond anymore and while he's perfectly happy being worked a couple of times a week and living out with his herd, I'm more and more begining to see him more as a chore and worry about thinks like what if he gets injured - could I give him the time/cared needed.
It also hasn't helped that where I live nowdays there are no yards that meet all of our needs - you either have good facilities and crap grazing or vice versa which is what I have now but it means in the winter (and during this slightly rubbish summer) I rarely get to ride - making it even more difficult to motivate myself. The final straw was the yard basically renaguing on their promise to have a new arena for winter, not fixing the flooded drains, leaving stables, dodgy fencing and cutting back our grazing for the benefits of their other live stock and meaning that this winter, not only would I still have not facilities, but my horse wouldn't be able to live out as happily as he did this year.
So it's done - I've put him on a few free sites for now and I'm hoping that I get some genuine interest as that will make the whole process much easier.
I'm still riddled with guilt though - he owes me nothing and here I am passing him on