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[higgledypiggled]

S o I wasn't going to write anything before I came back from Zermatt, all tanned and with heaps to say about how awesome it was but.....

signing the new stable contract didn't quite go as planned. So a bit of background information:

I've been at the stable I'm at for almost three years now. I moved there after Gib had been operated because of a

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[higgledypiggled]

Thanks for the encouraging words.

Horror stories:
Okay, slight overstatement. But when I payed the reservation fee I still assumed that two of my acquaintances had their horses boarded there. I knew them from the stable that Gib lived at when he had his surgical colic (Melander). Thought if they are there, it can't be that bad.

Then Jaana's friend told me they no longer had their horses boarded at that stable, but had moved their horses back to Melander. I wouldn't move my horse back to Melander (mouldy hay and ceilings) and the fact that they had opted to move their horses back there instead of staying at the place I was planning to move to really scared me.

The woman at the stable told me the following: Eight people had just left the stable. She was there because her trainer had rented seven horseboxes a couple months earlier, and ran that part of the stable on his own. So she didn't have to have anything to do with the actual stable owner, but had still registered the way the rest of the stable was run: no set timetables, sometimes it took until the afternoon before the horse's got out, too little hay, varying hay quality, horses treated differently according to status.... You'll see when you move here, she said. And I thought, I'll take her word for it.

Okay, the stable was probably run in a way in compliance with animal protection laws, and a robust coldblood might be okay with it but Gib is so darn sensitive. I don't want to take any chances that he might have another colic requiring surgery.

[whitefjords]

understandable, his care is rather time consuming, and he definitely seems more than a little touchy. keep me informed though. *grin* livejournaling helps.