No! No! A thousand times no!
“Thoroughbred stallion for sale
***Very active and full of energy young horse***…”
Good gawd feed that poor horse something! Maybe they spent their food budget on getting his feet done *does happy dance that feet are done* *does sad, slow sway that horse is underweight*
(In a fake British accent) Good sir, I commend your ingenuity in constructing reins from twine. And while one of the reasons we use leather for reins is that they will break under sufficient pressure, twine will give out just a wee bit before then. For example, most non-steroidal humanoids won’t ever be able to break an uncompromised set of reins; however, twine, well that shit’s gonna break sooner or later!
Hold on, is that entire “bridle” made of twine? Never mind, it totally IS!
Just so we’re all clear, this is NOT what I had in mind when I set up the Twinecapades contest! Nor was this an entry (thank gawd!)
By the by, given that this is a “young” horse, you might want to give him a chance to adjust and accept the bit before throwing on massive shanks. I mean, if he were to repeatedly act up in those and become desensitized to them, what would you escalate to? As Deborah Cox once said, “tell me, where do we go from hereeeeeeeeee” (yes, I warbled that as I typed it).
And now for some sappy goodness that has nothing whatsoever to do with the above ad (oh look, a clever distraction!)
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Mugwump just sent me an email pointing out these scars (no idea how I missed them… prolly blinded by the many other things wrong with this pic!)
Now go look at the second photo (above) and look at the same location. Definitely scars. Is there anyone in the Houston area who can save this guy?
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Okay, I’m still hung up on that first picture. Can somebody please explain to me why his head is tied to a post? *confused*
This guy always has horses and ‘dancing horses’ for sale. He always ties them to a post for photos. I once rode a charro trained ‘dancing horse’ – the horse was hot to the point of being insane. The charro method involves tying the poor horse up in a stock and hitting front and hind legs to make them trot in place. Sometimes they add chains to the ankles. Maybe he tried tried to make a dancing horse out of this one and failed – this horse.might be too sane.
My first thought “Oh! It’s a twinecepade entry! cool!” And then reality kicked me in the teeth…
I’m with Ellen on this…why is his head tied to a post???
*themindboggles* BOGGLES
My suspicions are that the horse is tied to a pole to train him to tie. A patience pole, to be exact. Young horses are tied, and if they fidget, they have 360 degrees of fidget room. They are tied high, so it is harder to injure themselves if they pull back. Not impossible, just harder. The fact that the pole is tied to some kind of guy wire setup kind of ruins the whole patience pole effect. And the fact that he is still in the bridle with a bit with crazy long shanks for a baby…jeeze
I think that rope coming off the pole is the one holding his head. It looks to me like they put him there and pulled the rope tight to get a pic.
I may be off on this but looking at the style of saddle and the bit this poor guy has on I get the impression that he is being trained charro style or possibly as a dancing horse. Usually TB+that type of training=major disaster. This poor guy needs an upgrade.
Yep. That’s a charro saddle. Poor horse.
I’m asking this out of total ignorance, but why is a Charro saddle automatically negative?
I don’t really know anything about the whole Charro thing but I don’t think it’s so much the saddle that’s negative, but the people and the training methods they use to get the horse to “Dance”…
What do you mean that “the people” are negative? There’s a whole lotta racism happening here. (For what it’s worth, I ride in an area with an awful lot of Mexican horsemen. Guess what? They’re just like white people! Some are hideous horsemen and some are wonderful.
Oh, and just because a horse is being ridden by somebody who speaks Spanish does NOT automatically mean it’s trained to dance.
More from the ad:
***Three or four more horses for sale***
***Hablamos espanol para su conveniencia***
No doubt.
I was trying to figure out why his head was cranked up on that pole and why the hell he had that super long shank in his mouth when I noticed that the ad said “stallion for sale” and it all became clear… they are IDIOTS. Poor creature – he definitely needs an upgrade.
Feet are done and is a beautiful color of bay…..thats all you’re getting thats positive from me….
Yikes, that’s not far from me! Poor baby, wish I had room in my barn…..I’d fatten him up right after he got his man berries cut off.
That is typical of a Mexican trained horse or race horse. I saw them do that with a pole with wire OR a chain permanently attached.. and horses had dug a hole near the base of the pole, so you can bet more than one youngster nearly choked themselves to death trying to stand there. This was at a boarding stable in the lower end of the Bay Area, California.
It was a sprawling multi shed row type deal.
The other dead give away is the saddle.. the dinner plate sized horn should clue some in.
ACK… poor thing.
Mexican… trained… I can’t even… WTF IS WRONG WITH THOSE PEOPLE?? GAAAAAAH!!!
Yeah, because we all know that Mexicans (aka “those people”) are incapable of training anything, right? Biologically impossible.
This horse is way too skinny. Should be reported to animal control.
I agree with the others about the charro thing, definitely looks like that type of set up. Poor horse … he needs to pack on the groceries, stat. He’d make a lovely gelding by the looks of it, he has a kind eye; provided his “training” hasn’t been entirely done by these fools.
Call the Houston SPCA, this guy is way too thin.
My brain is bleeding out my eyeballs now.
I’m near Houston, very much so. But I can’t even find decent boarding for my current horse, much less another one. Hay shortage makes everything insanely expensive too down here.
Poor guy. I have a lot of opinions about this kind of situation but I’m sure everyone knows what I’m thinking in my head, so I’ll leave it at that.
You save this horse, there will just be four more for sale next week. I see them for sale all the time.
scars on the legs often from “learning” how to dance. puke
How cheap do you have to be to make a bridle out of twine? Maybe they were going for the third-world-it’s-either-a-new-bridle-or-bread sort of look.
The scars look like the result of badly done hobble training…probably the same twine they used for the bridle. So, hypothetical recycling is the only good thing I see. Wish they’d include some desensitization training by THROWING SOME HAY AT HIM!
Dear KT,
Last time I checked, charro training can be done properly. The improper kind is not restricted to only Mexican people. I don’t know why you chose to attack someone above for saying “those people”. The choice of words (I assume) imply anyone who uses the improper method and causes uthe undue stress and pain from forcing them to “dance”.
looking at those pictures just make me sick.poor horse with kind eye saying help me. if we could save them all.gods gifts to us and this is what you do to these kind animals
How do idiots end up with horses??? Very sad, i see it all the time.