Sentimentality - for the love of horses

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So does anyone ever meet a horse (or any animal really) - and it's love at first site?

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Me!!! I adored Monty from the moment I saw him, even though he bucked round the field when I first sat on him. There is just something about him, he's so troubled but he has a good heart.

Considering I ended up with a 25 year old tb with stiff legs and behavioural problems, it must have been a heart over head moment! I wouldn't change him though and giving him a happy ending has been the best feeling I've ever had (although my bank balance has taken a hit!)
 
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So does anyone ever meet a horse (or any animal really) - and it's love at first site?

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Yes - my previous horse. I remember walking into the yard to try her. It was a fantastic period yard at the most amazing country house (I mean Bingley from Pride and Predujice style) looking to the right to her tied up against the wall. SHe turned to look at me and I fell in love straight away.
Good job really as she cost roughly 10x what she was brought for in vets fees, starting with going lame 3months after I brought her. She was only worked for about half the time before I retired her (at 13!). She became a field ornament and I had her PTS'd after a severe bout of colic (reoccuring). She owed me nothing and I wouldn't put her through anymore than she had been. Broke my heart and actually I am about to cry typing this and thinking about her.
 
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Broke my heart and actually I am about to cry typing this and thinking about her.

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Oh, don't - you'll start me off
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Horse of a lifetime for one reason or another then Hells??
 
I'm the same As Kenzo, i like them all, love almost any i get to know well, just for appreciating them for what and who they are. But there are some that just get me from the start. A pony i looked afterr for a long time was a 'love at first sight' i said as soon as i saw him i had fallen for him and 3 years later when he was for sale and i finally found a way to buy him... i missed him by one day.

There have only been 2 that i've not liked at all that i remember. The one i disliked intensely was a horrble little grey with no manners, no brain and no good looks.
 
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Broke my heart and actually I am about to cry typing this and thinking about her.

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Oh, don't - you'll start me off
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Horse of a lifetime for one reason or another then Hells??

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Yep - but for all the wrong reasons - if that makes sense! The one I brought when she was retired (I was extremely lucky) is far more talented - but when I first saw her went 'oh s**t'. Wouldn't swap her (most of the time
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MM, this John Terry that you have - did he do quite well???

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Nope, he broke down at the first. We call him John Terry, or JT, becasue his Dam was called Chelsea and my Dad is a CFC nutter
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If I had the real John Terry racehorse he would be in a cotton wool box, not in my dock infested field lol
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Yep - but for all the wrong reasons - if that makes sense

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Sometimes just owning them (regardless of what they do or don't achieve / do) is enough though.

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MM, this John Terry that you have - did he do quite well???

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Nope, he broke down at the first. We call him John Terry, or JT, becasue his Dam was called Chelsea and my Dad is a CFC nutter
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If I had the real John Terry racehorse he would be in a cotton wool box, not in my dock infested field lol
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Ah, makes sense now. I was going to say congratulations on having such a famous horse!
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Yep - but for all the wrong reasons - if that makes sense

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Sometimes just owning them (regardless of what they do or don't achieve / do) is enough though.

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Yes it is indeed. Thank you x
 
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Oh I am a very bad horse person. I don't do kissing horses, I don't do calling them my babies/little star whatever
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They are a horse tbh. I feel affection towards the odd one, but can honestly say I feel very little real emotion towards them.

I'm a bad and wicked person
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I'm also bored to tears by horse sports... bar XC. I cannot abide watching dressage/sj/showing.
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I understand you don't have your own horse - I was like this for years, until I was owning, I love my horse and feel deeply connected with him.
 
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So does anyone ever meet a horse (or any animal really) - and it's love at first site?


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Most definitely, that's how I feel about Phoenix. Baring in mind he was one of 6 foals that year at the stud when I went there... I always wanted a big grey.. always... ALL the other foals were half Percheron and all going to be grey... I still picked him.. there was just something about him. After 3 1/2 years, with him now approaching 4 years old, I have loved every single day and never regret getting him over my steriotypical dream horse.
 
AmyMay, yes, I loved Fudge just from his advert and phone calls to his owners, I usually have a very sensible approach to buying horses but would have brought him unseen, if the owner hadn't put others off until I could make the 9 hour round trip to view him. The moment I sat on him I just knew
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I love horses as a species - I am always always interested in them. Although it sounds corny, I almost live and breathe horses - they are never far from my mind and I love to see them anywhere - I get excited seeing police horses and things even.

I don't "love" all horses on a personal level though. I've owned horses and ridden horses and been fond of them at the time but when I've had to sell them or give them up it hasn't really made me sad, I haven't missed them.

However with Taz, he was a horse that I truly loved on a personal level and I still miss him. We really really clicked, and he wasn't just a horse to me, he was a pet. I hope the next horse I buy will make me feel like that too.
 
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So does anyone ever meet a horse (or any animal really) - and it's love at first site?


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Definitely. I've had that twice.

I would say that I wasnt really 'in love' with any of my ponies. They were there - I didnt have to work hard to get them - and although this sounds very selfish, they were all chosen for me. I loved them, but I think I only really began to appreciate them as I grew older. They were all little gems though - bar one
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Mickey was the one who made my heart hurt. He was also the first horse that I actually chose - made me put my foot down and say Mum, I MUST have this horse - rather than going along with what everyone else thought was right. As it turned out with Mickey, everyone else would have been right - he was never going to be right for me, or for anyone...but he had had such a bad time, and something between us clicked. I just wanted to make him better
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I think I did, and I take comfort in the fact that even though he died young, his last few months were probably the happiest he'd ever known.

I decided to give up horses after Mickey, as I didnt want to love and lose again. Somehow I got persuaded to spend the summer with my instructor...there I fell in love with his big baby horse. I still say that he was the most stunning looking horse I've ever known...but it was before the era of camera phones, and I have no photos of him. I loved him so much, even though I never even rode him. It was a shitty summer for me - shortly after Mickey died, my dad buggered off - and in times when I felt bottomed out I used to just stand by his box, and he would lower his head and take hold of my jacket, just holding me whilst I cried my eyes out. He was my solace that year, and although he was sold on a few years later under a cloud, I sincerely wish I could trace him somehow. I'd buy him in a flash.

At the end of that summer, having looked at 22 different horses, I felt I'd never find 'the one' again...but then we discovered Ellie, and I fell in love all over again. I do all that mushy stuff - I kiss her nose, I call her my baby
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- and I absolutely love her to bits. I guess I am one of those soppy people who falls head over heels! I think we're the type who get hurt the easiest because of it, too
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I will also say that I take an interest in EVERY horse I see - not just my own, or those of my friends. I just love everything about them

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I am very close to my big fella after just 6 months. Have had the little welshie 2 years and I love her but dont have the same bond. A Shetland that lived with us for a while I really did not like personally. I think with me its a bit selfish - if I get back something back even just the fact they walk over to see me or trust me to walk past something then thats all I need but if they dont show me any love / respect / interest I dont feel the same bond. I get pretty narked if I get shunned i.e ears back, wont be caught etc. Thats why when I bought my horse temperament came above everything else......I want a friend and partner not just a machine
 
Hhmm, I love horses as a species, I love watching them, learning about them and spent so much of my time either with them or thinking about them.

I love my own horse to pieces. I can't say "I'll never sell her"... because if the time comes when I do outgrow her, I may well sell her, or maybe when I go to uni or whatever.... I would love to keep her forever but I am not going to say "she's my horse of a lifetime" either, because I expect in the future I will find something that will click with me more. However I absoloutely adore her, I see her faults, but don't really care. I know that I look a bit big on her, but after seeing others ride her, and knowing that she trusts me more than them, and knowing that she goes better for me, it makes me realise that we actually do go together quite well. She's my baby and I say it all the time, I love her to pieces
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I love Fly. I really LOVE him. I get a high when I lock eyes on him in the morning and I love him unconditionally when he takes his own line. I am trying not to love Harry (my 4yo) but i am a hopeless case to more heartache ahead me thinks. i am truely a sad case. x
 
I love all horses as they are very interesting animals and you can learn a lot by watching lots of different horses as they all have different characters.

However, I have to say I love my pony more than all other horses and we have a really good bond.

There are certain horses I end up liking more than others, generally because of their personality and nature.
 
I think I would say I love horses as a species. There is not another animal so magnificent, majestic, brave and yet so trusting. (Badminton and Burghley prove that point.)
I love my horse like I would love a child - I think about him all day and I can't wait to see him every morning and evening.
I also love to see horses out and about - I watch any TV programme with horses and I love stories with horses in.
I have always been horse-mad, since before I could walk or talk. I couldn't afford riding lessons as a child so it was my priority as an adult to have my own horse.
Now at the age of 41 and having been a horse-owner for 11 years I know my horse is a substitute child!
 
Like Nicki, i just love horses. I still get a thrill to see random horses in a field, or out hacking. Horse mad for as long as i could remember and spent my childhood dreaming about having my own and didn't care what it looked like.
I love my own 2 with a passion and have become very attached to friends horses that i handle on a regular basis. There are others that I have disliked in the past because of their personalities, eg they are rude, bargy or downright mean. These are few and far between i must admit. I suppose like people, we can't like them all. I would never do them any harm and would still go out of my way to help them out.
As for love at first sight, when i met my pony Minty (sons pony) i jsut knew he was the one and loved him from the minute i saw him. My own mare, i loved how she looked but it took a bit longer to form the bond and love her completely. At least a couple of weeks lol.
 
I don't think I could honestly say that I DO love my current horses, certainly not as much as my dogs, in that I'd sell any of my horses but I wouldn't sell my dogs.

I enjoy my horses, I am fond of them and would never see them suffer but they are not the be all and end all of my life. I have only had two horses in over 35 years that I really DID have a very deep affection for, sadly they both came to untimely ends, but if circumstances had permitted I would have kept them for good.

Other horses? It is a bit like other people's dogs really, some I really like, others are just there but I don't want to make a fuss of them.
 
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