If you were a horse, would you be in work?

No I'd be on permanent box rest but only If i could lie down. Heels are too painful to stand for long periods. Bad shoulder and reoccurring back problem and very moody mare when pre season. Come to think of it sod the box rest I should be shot! ;)
 
I'd have been shot by now! Box rest wouldn't be an option as I'm too hyper and the only parts of my body that work properly are my right ankle and left shoulder! :D
 
Some great replies!
Interesting to see how many of us would be pathetic horses XD haha!!

I think I may be able to be a walk-only happy hacker, I do love my long walks!
 
I'd be the 13.2 new forest or maybe welsh pony, a little bit nuts, lazy a lot of the time but very fizzy if excited, temperamental, probably be a chestnut mare :D I'd love being stabled, hate being out! I'd be up for anything, but have to have regular chiro/physio for bad back!
 
I think I would be in regular work, but it would have to be steady due to dodgy knees. I am one that would be better being ridden to keep me supple. I would be an extremely good doer - cost nothing to keep, and would be a safe conveyance for children/novices or nervous people. I would usually look rather scruffy and hairy (!) but would scrub up quite well.
 
I'd be in work, but would be a bit temperamental.
My back is buggered most if the time, and I'm only young.

So if I was a horse id probably have notorious kissing spines :rolleyes:

Might be good for the occasional hack but sod off if you think I'm leaping over a 4ft solid xc fence!
 
Yes I would be.

Would be that fat (be an escape artist) fluffy (refuse to let clippers near me) pony at pony club that has it's ears in some poor childs face, views everything as a jump, never stands still, happiest hurtling along out of control or stepping on small childrens feet. Probably grey, but never seem it. Ironically might have fab conformation, but terrorise all the show pony's so never get anywhere with it!
 
Hmm, i've had KS surgery, broken leg and removal of all my repro organs! I doubt anyone would fork out for that lot unless they had extremely good insurance. So i guess i would be in a tin.
 
Solo1 said:
Yes I would be.

Would be that fat (be an escape artist) fluffy (refuse to let clippers near me) pony at pony club that has it's ears in some poor childs face, views everything as a jump, never stands still, happiest hurtling along out of control or stepping on small childrens feet. Probably grey, but never seem it. Ironically might have fab conformation, but terrorise all the show pony's so never get anywhere with it!
Click to expand...

That's my friends pony, bar the standing on feet. He actually has good ground manners, just lacking manners of the ridden variety... He's grey too... Or supposed to be...
 
Nope with swollen fingers and thumbs every evening and morning I would probably be on box rest with suspected laminitis or on a Bute trial for arthritis. Also see the back person every 2 weeks!
 
No I don't think I could be slapped cheek virus has plagued me so im guessing I'd probably have hives with a temperature and be at the back of my stable sleeping the virus away :(
 
emma.is said:
if you could make me go :cool:
Click to expand...

LMAO! this!!

I guess Id pass a 5 stage... albeit grudgingly. And id likely bite the vet during flexion tests :p

Id be a happy hacker, will walk for hours, maybe a 5 min trot here and there. But you can get lost if you want me to run round a blooming cross country course or more than once round a school :p:p

Id possibly enjoy jumping,maybe even do a small course, would get excited by the atmosphere (I often get comments that im more wound up than the horse at events :o) - wouldnt refuse but im guess my technique might not be the prettiest :p and legs far too short to do more than 1ft :p
 
Possibly, depending on how well I was treated and appreciated! Ex NH chaser, old fashioned TB sort. A real stayer in the past and won a lot at top of my game. Became sour and retired as a gentleman's hunter. Now uncertain temperament and requires careful management and sympathetic riding to ensure brilliant safe ride over any country.
 
Oh gawd - If I was a horse I'd cost a bomb! I'd need ongoing remedial farriery due to poor conformation, have a dodgy back, would probably have chronic sweet itch, and the behaviourist would be busy!! I'd be a scruffy native heinz type.

I'd probably be dog meat tbh!! :o
 
Not at the moment as I'm currently in A and E waiting to be seen after falling for the oldest trick in the book . After nearly 10 years of owning the crafty bugger , you'd think I'd be wise to his tricks but no . Was rushing to get out on a ride tonight , before the light failed , so only checked his girth once before getting on . Well the inevitable happened . Saddle slipped , he hopped away from the mounting block , I had to hop with him as my foot was still in the stirrup , and landed on my right foot heavily . It felt just like my cannon bone was shoved into my kneecap, and I felt something go ping! Rode anyway , got off and my knee collapsed . Now I can't bend it , get upstairs or drive without swearing. a lot .

Other than that , I would be a crafty old mare , normally well behaved but with the capacity to put in a hefty buck now and then :D
 
Yes but would be very lazy about it and poor fitness levels so would manage one lap of the school and be puffing/ keeling over already :D
 
Last edited:
Oh I kind of would gently I think! I have had my pelvis rebuilt, was born without my left hip socket nad onlky a partial one on the right and have arthritis i left hip, spine and both knees. But I would be very enthusiastic about it-I frequently over do it, at least once a month seriously where I have to lie low for days and get a good old strain on every week! I would be a jigger, can't sit still type, who pisses off their rider by being generally weird and in too muc of a hurry-I scoot around town and have to pass everyone in front of me on the bike-I like fassssssst!!!!
Sadly the mind is willing but I would be perma-lame (as I am in human life) so I think I would be shot actually!
Just thinking about it I'd've been PTS at birth!
 
Kissing spine (ruptured disc) and navicular (dodgy knee, prevents fast working and leaping up and down :D)

Bit stressy, too ... I'd probably weave / crib / box walk. Bit too much of a good do-er so I'd need restricted grazing, so companion is out.

If I'm lucky, I'm a happy hacker. If I'm a bit less lucky, I'm in a tin :P
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Top