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Strangest things people have tried to convince you about your horse?

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I was curious about the strangest/dumbest thing or things people have tried to convince you about your horse. I feel like this would make for some interesting stories... :lol: I don't have any right this moment but I'm sure to think of some when I read other stories. I'm looking forward to your replies!
 
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A fellow boarder at my old barn tried to convince me to keep Aires a stallion and not geld him. She wanted to breed her awful fugly mare to him (not exaggerating...her mare has horrible conformation and just a bad attitude). She didn't care that Aires is grade (Percheron/paint cross) because her "mare is registered, so it's okay" (her logic, not mine). She kept telling me I could stud him out for $500 a pop just because "he's so pretty."

She stopped speaking to me entirely after Aires was gelded.
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someone tried to convince me that my horse had a serious leg problem when she started gaiting once ahahahahaha. After I told her that she was gaited she told me that there was no way I would ever get her trained properly because I didn't know anything about gaited horses. At this moment in time I have done abundant research and happen to have a mare that gaits well and consistently. So that lady can just shove it! :D because I win :-p
 
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I had a guy tell me that my horse needed a tie-down, after he saw him pop up in a small rear in a parking lot at a show. He does tiny rears to protest, and because someone must've got off of him whenever he did it in the past. Nope, he doesn't need a tie down quick fix, he needs more experience leaving home and leaving his buddys. A few shows later and he's almost 100% calm and no more rearing!
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The supposed "Large Animal Vet" who kept asking repeatedly if my horse was REALLY a Morgan and was I sure his papers weren't forged?!

Nah... he MUST be a QH, they all prance around with their knees hitting their chest, their tail a billion miles in the air, have a very refined build, tiny, lil butts, refined heads and are 14hh. No wait.... maybe he's a Clydesdale...
 
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Great, keep them coming! :lol:

I had an older vet who thought my mare was a Quarter horse and was just very sweaty. When I told him she was a Bashkir Curly he just rolled his eyes and looked at me like 'okay'. Also had a few people tell me my other Curly mare who has a thicker coat has Cushings real bad. She is perfectly healthy and sheds just fine, but they would fight to the death, I swear.
 
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Someone asked me if my horse really was full blooded Arabian and not just a pretty part bred. Why? Because he's "too well mannered to be an Arabian" - they thought all Arabs were snort n blow all the time like in the pictures!
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Probably not what you are after but i've had several "proffessionals" tell me to have Reeco Shot (those exact words).
Reeco was scared and in pain and letting me know in the only way he knew how (bolting), he has had a horrific past and at the time had an undiagnosed fractured pelvis! 12 months later and I have a very sweet pony who will hopefully be doing his first ridden show in the next few weeks
 
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Thought of another one...

Guy at work very rudely told me not to train Aires English because English is for losers who can't ride horses and if I train him English, I'll ruin him.
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wow really? That's dumb. I used to get made fun of constantly at my old stable for riding English. They told me I'm a pansy and that only pansies ride English. I asked them if they could do it and they said no because the saddles look uncomfortable. I've come to the conclusion that they won't leave the comfort of a western saddle. And they suck at riding.
 
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My neighbors were telling me that I should really try "real riding" AKA Western. I asked if they'd like to give English a go and was told heck no, they'd fall right out of that slippery saddle.

Oook... so I'm not really "riding" but yet I can stay in a slippery saddle?

Or when my sister was going on and on about pretentious "Eastern" riding.... took me a while to figure out the moron meant English!
 
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A few years back, after a really bad fall off a horse (not mine) i was told by a visiting something star parelli guy that if I did things his way I wouldn't have fallen....

3 months later he was hospitalized with a broken leg after his whatever star trained horse thought he'd like to get a bit closer to the road :) Can't say I didn't laugh to myself.. just a teeny bit :)
 
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I was told my mare has 15.2hh when I tried her out. Thank goodness I didn't really care about height because I can't tape her any higher than 14.3 hh. The old owner still swears up and down she's 15.2 though.

That I didn't need to worry about which western saddle I use because they just fit any horse. That I put the rear cinch on too loose that is should be tight as or tighter than the front cinch! The throatlatch of a bridle is suppose to be really tight.
 
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I had someone tell me I was training my foal wrong and that she would get all sour because of it. Well she turned out great and had the manners of an angel; now this person has a foal that is so rude and has so few manners that he is going to need some serious work before she can even think of training him to ride. Talk about completely needing retraining..
 
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A girl in my 4h group told me that my gelding was never going to be a usable speed horse becus he was originally trained for western pleasure. Yeah........... he is now running barrels at 17.3 sec. And is involved in cow sorting. My reply to brandi when she first told me that my gelding wasnt going to be a speed horse was "well if he belong to u he wouldnt be becus u wouldnt put the effort into training him for it"(all her horsss are pretrained before she buys them and if she doesnt like the way they are trained she sells them and buys another, basically a horse trader is what she does) and now that he is competeing in speed at shows brandi hardly talks to me and she no longer comments about my horses :)
 
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I was told that I am abusive because I spun my trainee mare around on her haunches and backed her up HARD after she aimed her butt at me and backed up. Apparently I'm supposed to 'explain' to her what I'm going to do first and reward her for every single half-way good mannered thing she does so she doesn't have a bad experience.

Treats are the only way to go. A horse with no reward will not love or trust you and since animals think with their stomachs, I should be giving my mini mare a carrot or some sweet feed each time she does something right. Uh, no. My mare thinks with her brain and reacts with her body. I encourage her to use her brain more by making fast reactions where she doesnt think mentally uncomfortable, and doing the right thing easy and a fast way to feel comfortable. She'll back up if I point my finger at her and tell her 'back' or sidepass when I touch both her shoulder and barrel while on the ground, but the second I bring out the treats she stops paying attention to my body language.

My almost-5 year old mare is obviously a baby and shouldn't be working or messed with because she's only "two feet" tall.
 
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My neighbors tried to convince us that our horses weren't just chasing eachother, but rather, that they were trying to KILL eachother. They even called the SPCA and RCMP to say our horses are trying to kill eachother. :shock: They got laughed at....

Or, I was told not to ride my TB western, trail ride him, or do cross country, as hes "crazy"... proved them wrong.

That one saddle can fit every horse.....:evil:
 
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