------------------------------------------------------- --- * Origin: WNYBBS FidoNet<->InterNet E-Mail Gateway (1:2613/10) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 243 HORSES Ref: FA100000 Date: 05/18/98 From: KARIN BREWER Time: 07:50pm \/To: MEG ALFONI (Read 1 times) Subj: [Fwd: Horse Buying] -> Terms of Horse Buying -> -> "Needs Experienced Rider" - This horse is excellent for you if you -> are slightly crazy or a little suicidal. ROFL!!! This is priceless! Karin --- InterEcho 1.15 * Origin: Passage MO System, San Antonio, TX (1:387/915) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 243 HORSES Ref: FA100001 Date: 05/19/98 From: KARIN BREWER Time: 07:45pm \/To: JEAN PROPHET (Read 1 times) Subj: Sick Horse -> > Back on topic.. Has any of the vets taken a culture of the -> > nasal discharge? Or -> > taken a sample and examined it under a microscope? I -> > wonder if you horse has -> > an infection going on up there that he just can't kick. -> -> That could be too ..... but if the nasal discharge is clear then -> it's more than likey allergys .... Yes, but it'd be on both sides. His horse just has a drip out of one side. Karin --- InterEcho 1.15 * Origin: Passage MO System, San Antonio, TX (1:387/915) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 243 HORSES Ref: FA100002 Date: 05/21/98 From: MEG ALFONI Time: 06:43pm \/To: ALL (Read 1 times) Subj: From your friends at rec.equestrian From: Meg Alfoni Subject: From your friends at rec.equestrian By Robert Kirby If you wish to be emotionally fashionable these days, you have to be able to talk to horses. Prompted by the movie ``The Horse Whisperer,'' hoss psychotherapy is the latest in Hollywood emotes. The movie has spawned public interest in real-life horse whisperers, people who specialize in helping troubled horses with channeling problems and/or past-life regression issues. This being the New Age, no horse is happy without a 12-step program. Although I still hesitate to talk about it, I was once a horse whisperer. OK, more of a horse screamer. It's basically the same thing, only not as romantic as the movie makes it look. Nor did it involve a torrid affair with a beautiful woman. It happened while I was a cop in a rural town. One day I tried to impound a stray horse. The horse, which, judging from appearances, may really have been just a tall weasel, cooperated up to the point of being driven into a pasture. Then it leaned over the fence and bit me on top of the shoulder. For the benefit of the inexperienced, horse bites differ significantly from mosquito bites. For one thing, horses are much bigger. You know right away when one lands on you. Also, they have mossy teeth the size of garage doors. Although pain and time have blurred the exact nature of my emotional interaction with this mentally unstable creature, I still remember the gist of it. Doctor Doolittle with a gun. Me: ``[expletives deleted, including many invented for the occasion]!'' Horse: ``Ha! Come over by the fence again, tough guy.'' So you see, whether being ridden by John Wayne, or necked with by Robert Redford, horses are not the wild and romantic conversationalists portrayed in the movies. On the other hand, would you go see something called ``The Duck Whisperer?'' Before Hollywood gets the idea that a sequel to ``The Horse Whisperer'' is a good idea, we should examine the options and/or the need of conversing with other animals. In addition to the aforementioned horse, I have whispered, screamed, threatened, cajoled and pleaded with other animals. Here is what little I learned. Puppy: Talking to a puppy is a huge waste of time. The topic revolves entirely around the most inconvenient place to go to the bathroom. Fish: Very poor listeners. Possibly because they live underwater, but more likely because they do not have ears. Cat: As previously explained in this column, demonic possession makes cats poor conversationalists. Bug: Little is known about bug-human dialogue. Probably because those who try it for any length of time end up heavily medicated by order of some court. Turkey: Although many women would pay to see Robert Redford in ``The Turkey Whisperer,'' it will not happen. Turkeys talk a lot, but they do not say anything meaningful. Pig: Forget it. Those willing to talk are still mad at Hollywood over ``Deliverance.'' Cow: Don't bother. What powers of elocution cows possess are completely devoted to ``Huh?'' Yak: See above, only worse. Snake: Any conversation is usually in the form of mean-spirited gossip. Chicken: Technically not an animal. Think potato with a beak. Giga Pet: Although not an animal either, today's virtual pet still has more upper-level reasoning ability than a chicken (and even most Hollywood directors). Rock: At one time the pet of choice, most people today find rocks indifferent and self-absorbed. One final and important note. Unlike the movie, if you are looking for romance with a highly attractive member of your own species, be careful who sees you whispering to the animals. ------------------------------------------------------- FidoNet EQUUS Conference<->InterNet EMail List To subscribe to the list, send an EMail message to: listserv@wnybbs.net With the words: SUBSCRIBE EQUUS To Unsubscribe: UNSUBSCRIBE EQUUS To post a message to the list, send E-Mail to: equus@wnybbs.net ------------------------------------------------------- --- * Origin: WNYBBS FidoNet<->InterNet E-Mail Gateway (1:2613/10) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 243 HORSES Ref: FA100003 Date: 05/21/98 From: JAN MURPHY Time: 11:52pm \/To: KARIN BREWER (Read 1 times) Subj: Re: Sick Horse > -> > I wonder if you horse has > -> > an infection going on up there that he just can't kick. > -> > -> That could be too ..... but if the nasal discharge is > -> clear then it's more than likey allergys .... > > Yes, but it'd be on both sides. His horse just has > a drip out of one side. Karin, you've said it: why does this horse have a drip out of just the one side? Doesn't it seem more likely that a systemic problem such as an allergy would cause his nose to run on both sides? I know from my own experience with something I suspect is a food allergy -- I get congested all over, not just one one side of my nose. ;-) If the drip is on one side, and only one side, then I say, there has to be something physical on that one side which is causing the drip that is absent on the other side. Otherwise he'd be getting the discharge out of both nostrils. Don't know if it's a blockage, a tumor, an abcess, a foreign object, or what, but *something* has to be going on there. Note to all: read a ghastly news item in the new issue of EQUUS about some racehorses in Kentucky who had been tampered with. Wanna guess what some fool did in order to make these horses not run well and thus screw up the race? The horses had sponges shoved up their nose. Yeah, you read that right, I said pieces of sponge. If an endoscopy hasn't been done on this poor horse to check for a foreign body, I say it's long past time. There are plenty of things which could get into a horse's nose, especially on a windy day, that might not come back out again. I'm thinking of some grass and weed seeds that have burrs on them and would latch onto the soft tissue and stay there, no matter what. --- Opus-CBCS 1.73a * Origin: Sci-Fido II, World's Oldest SF BBS, Berkeley, CA (1:161/84.0) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 243 HORSES Ref: FA100004 Date: 05/19/98 From: JEAN PROPHET Time: 06:24am \/To: BOB KOHL (Read 1 times) Subj: Sick Horse Good to see you back, Bob!!! AND, good advice about the "sick horse" ith allergies ... Hope CJ and Tush are OK .... Take care now. --- * Origin: Home is Where the HORSES Are!!! (1:371/33) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 243 HORSES Ref: FA100005 Date: 05/19/98 From: JEAN PROPHET Time: 06:30am \/To: MEG ALFONI (Read 1 times) Subj: [Fwd: Horse Buying] > Terms of Horse Buying > "Needs Experienced Rider" - This horse is excellent for you > if you are slightly crazy or a little suicidal. Must be like PsycoPat (Patti) ..... > "Excellent Dressage Prospect" - This horse can walk, trot > and canter on command. Or, we could add to that "Western Pleasure" Prospect. > "Started Over Fences" - This horse has jumped one fence > (out of the arena). The rider is recovering and the fence made good > firewood. HAHAHAHAHAHAH ...... LOVE it!! > "Absolutely Sound" - This horse has been on bute for a > month and is > going just fine. Poor Baby ........ > "Good Mover" - This horse is one you will never worry about > colic. HAHAHAHAHAHAHA ....... I have LOTS of them in my barn (good movers) !!!!!! > "Fantastic Mover" - This horse can go in four directions at > once. HEheheheheh ....... > "Athletic" - This horse can go in six directions at once. A cousin to the one above, huh??? Thanks for sharing this -- I "stole" it and posted it in my UNUSUAL_PETS echo .... hope you don't mind. --- * Origin: Jean's Trick Horses (Or is that TRICKY??) (1:371/33) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 243 HORSES Ref: FA100006 Date: 05/22/98 From: BOB KOHL Time: 11:00am \/To: ALL (Read 1 times) Subj: re: EQUUS ECHO RULES 1) Play nice. This is a friendly echo, so let's keep it that way. No head banging, heavy debating, ego butting, breed bashing, flames, etc etc. Also understand that in any circumstance where the "moderator" is needed... the only person that is absolutely right is the "Moderator". 2) Enjoy! 3) Topic is horses.. any kind, any kind of riding or usage.. A serious note.. and please make an effort to stay on topic... ************************************** 4) We do get kids in the echo from time to time.. so let's keep this in mind, please post accordingly for their sake (keep it clean). 5) Remember to try and keep the messages under about 60 lines or so.. break the message into a two parter if you have to.. but since we always want to hear what you have to say... we'd prefer that the message doesn't get eaten.. ;) And don't periodically forget to change the subject line in keeping with the conversation. 6) This echo is dedicated to helping all people to become better riders and horsepeople. Let's try to get this goal across without suggesting things that put horse or rider at risk, since this is counter productive. I realise that this is kind of ambiguous.. please just do your best folks. Have I forgotten anything? Oh yes... say goodnight Gracie! BK P.S. Goodnight Gracie!! P.P.S. Goodnight Mrs Kalibash, where ever you are! > --- DB 1.54/001347 > * Origin: * Conniption BBS * one fit at a time (1:102/861) > SEEN-BY: 102/861 114/5 206/2607 > PATH: 102/861 --- DB A3000sl/001347 * Origin: * Conniption BBS * one fit at a time (1:102/861)