Little Lad is going out on loan...

[MrsMozartletoe]

Hubby has had enough and says i have to sell him - so i'm trying to loan him as a compromise instead. i've beaten about the bush and faffed around as much as possible, but now i have no choice, he has to go

the question is, where? where do i advertise a 13hh (high withered so more like 12hh) little g1t?

daughter has been riding him every day and he's going well, even jumped the other day (only twelve inches, but he was happy enough). Can't put him out as a jumping pony though. he's good to hack out alone or in company (pratically bombproof). he's fine on a lead rein.

i know i can put him on our website, but that's a couple of weeks off being finished.

blah. thought i would manage to keep hold of him for a while longer, 'till the end of the year when we should hopefully have our own land (and could then tuck him away in a quiet corner and hope D wouldn't notice).

 

[Hovis_and_SidsMum]

Any local pony clubs that have web sites?

 

[MontyandZoom]

Oh poor you!

Could you advertise him as a lead-rein? I know it's not ideal but someone could be looking for a stop-gap pony until their child is bigger and off-lead?

You could send him to me......I'm only 12 stone!

 

[martlin]

Nothing to add really, just hugs MrsM

We shall cheer each other up somehow

 

[MrsMozartletoe]

HSM - good thinking, I'll have a look

MZ - if you'd like him on loan then you're welcome!!

M - ta hun. boo hoo. we need to win the Lottery

 

[martlin]

Yep, lottery win would sort a few problems out...

 

[f_s_]

and he's my favourite too!!!!

 

[MrsMozartletoe]

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and he's my favourite too!!!!

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Well.... he can carry twelve stone-ish

. He's cheap to keep. He's great hacking out

Go on, you know you want him

 

[f_s_]

*rings sister frantically, and asks if she can borrow the baby*

Is he good with new borns???

 

[MrsMozartletoe]

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*rings sister frantically, and asks if she can borrow the baby*

Is he good with new borns???

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well, he's yet to eat one, so I guess so

. he hasn't shown an urge to damage small creatures, unless they're between him and his food

 

[f_s_]

Mrs M I'd love him, but, unfortunately, I have seventeen stone of bulking muscle looking very menacingly in my direction, with words that sound like " If you *&%%$ well get another ££$$46^^^*** horse..I'm &8&&^(££ going to $$**&, can't repeat the rest!!!

Personally I think he's starting to talk like Norman Collier!!!

I will keep my ears to the ground and ask any unsuspecting pony mad kids, who live very near me if they need a pony on loan!!!

 

[MrsMozartletoe]

Hm. Sounds scarily like being here

Right, he's on Horse Exchange.

Hm, think the dogs, which also aren't D's idea of fun are playing up - I think it's going to be a loooooong night

 

[FinnishLapphund]

Or you can do what I sort of did with my puppies, remember it's not your fault if nobody wants your little darling pony, is it?

A while after I had decided which one of the bitch puppies I wanted to keep and the male puppy was sold, I got a feeling my mother was quite reluctant about me selling the other bitch puppy but not quite ready to say the word yet. So after a little this and that I ended up putting in a new advert in a morning paper but I can now admit that I worded it in such a way that, well hm, to be honest I probably made it sound like she (about 10 to 11 weeks old) needed a very experienced owner with lots of time to spend on her...

Nobody phoned on that advert and the next week my mother said she wanted her.

(And if anybody wonders, No she never needed a very experienced owner.)

 

[MrsMozartletoe]

FL - I like your logic

Let's just say I'm being completely honest

, or would be if I could get the PC site to accept payment

.

Ah well. At least he can't say I haven't tried...

 

[BankEndRescue]

Oh bugger, I thought you had got all this sorted out, what a pain in the arse. Let me know if I can help

 

[Cheiro1]

oh dear, im sorry C, (((hugs))) hope you find him a nice home! I think you should kidnap montyandzoom, think they would make a lovely team!!

 

[MrsMozartletoe]

thank you BER, is appreciated, but I want to keep ownership of him. I hope some day, unless the loaner is the most splendid and excellent person who loves him and looks after him just as he needs, to get him back. When there is less of me I can ride him - and at the rate Dizzy and I mis-match when we're both fit and well it would be good to have an option lol.

C - lol, can't have any more - think D would leave me and I need him (give me a moment and I'll remember why..., oh yes, he's willing to learn how to lunge the Dizzy one

).

 

[Cheiro1]

lol at lunging the Dizzy One! sorry, I meant kidnap the person montyandzoom who said above to send him to her, and then force her to take him home!! lol, sorry, dont have a way with words! lol

 

[MrsMozartletoe]

Ah C, you do, I just not had enough chocolate today lol

 

[Slinkyunicorn]

Fingers crossed you find a nice home for him!!

Was going to say don't let f_s see this but I see she already has.....

 

[MrsMozartletoe]

Ta hun. Will put up ads in local saddlers and at the local shows.

Hubby has been in such a better mood since I placed the ads. Ah well.