In which I boggle, and rant a little bit.
While I was at the barn this Friday (comic incoming once I stop hating everything I draw ever), my trainer and I talked about the weanlings in the barn--and how they weren't so much halter broke as able-to-force-a-halter-on-able, and not so much trained to lead as able-of-being-dragged-(for-now). The owner seems to seldom come out to the barn.
And I stood there and said, "What the hell?" Becuase really, how can you breed horses and then...ignore them, mostly? Do you think they magically train themselves? Board is $450 a month. If you want to earn any of that back selling these foals later you should maybe, I don't know, out some training on them because I can toodle on down to the auction and pick up a wild yearling for what, $35 before the kill buyer gets them? Yeah.
I mean was I the only one who devoured horse training books as a kid/teenager without even owning one? I knew about how important training horses early in life was before I graduated high shcool nevermind thought of owning one. I'd certainly never entertain the thought of breeding a couple of foals and then cheerfully ignoring them. The filly was born sweet and friendly and I'm seeing that slowly erode away as no one pays any damn attention to her.
Maybe it's the fact that this woman is throwing eleventy billion dollars in monthly board at horses she doesn't do jack with and I'm staring down the fact that I may never be able to afford owning a horse again that makes me want to reach out and strangle her. STRANGLE. The poor babies. :( Not just the weanlings, but their older half-siblings and the mares themselves. Yes I'm SURE Saddlebreds adore being stalled forever and ever, that must be why the one is eating her damn stall down, right?
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/sadface
And I stood there and said, "What the hell?" Becuase really, how can you breed horses and then...ignore them, mostly? Do you think they magically train themselves? Board is $450 a month. If you want to earn any of that back selling these foals later you should maybe, I don't know, out some training on them because I can toodle on down to the auction and pick up a wild yearling for what, $35 before the kill buyer gets them? Yeah.
I mean was I the only one who devoured horse training books as a kid/teenager without even owning one? I knew about how important training horses early in life was before I graduated high shcool nevermind thought of owning one. I'd certainly never entertain the thought of breeding a couple of foals and then cheerfully ignoring them. The filly was born sweet and friendly and I'm seeing that slowly erode away as no one pays any damn attention to her.
Maybe it's the fact that this woman is throwing eleventy billion dollars in monthly board at horses she doesn't do jack with and I'm staring down the fact that I may never be able to afford owning a horse again that makes me want to reach out and strangle her. STRANGLE. The poor babies. :( Not just the weanlings, but their older half-siblings and the mares themselves. Yes I'm SURE Saddlebreds adore being stalled forever and ever, that must be why the one is eating her damn stall down, right?
asdahkdhasjdajdajdhasd
/sadface