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Horse Stress

In the past year, we have had so much horse stress. We have been searching for some nice horses. Talked to friends, searched the Internet, and made lots of phone calls. I would go look at one and get excited about it, sorry they sold it. Got excited about another, sorry changed their mind, not for sale after we were ready to take it home. Found a couple paints from a friend of ours and after a 2 week trial we bought them. Yeah, we finally had some horses and I was excited to ride. Mark started roping and was excited about it again. We delat with a fungus and eye injury requiring a vet. Paint gelding went back to the previous owner to get a lesson in reining and jammed a steel post through his chest above his leg. Previous owner nursing it back to health. Mark got bucked off the mare. We started hearing stories about the mare bucking other people off. She was supposed to be kid safe. We confront the owner, he takes the horse back and returns our money, he also wants the gelding back. 3 months and we are back to no horses . Looked at a kid horse for Jayden. Super quiet and nice to ride. Had a vet check, feet aren’t good, arthritis in the knee, and scaared of shots. Have had others at the last minute raise the price on us, a lot. Friend of mine brought out an Iris Joe mare for a very low price. She is so green, knows very little, is small, and not very pretty. I’ll be sending her back.
Still have Dakota the ornery pony. Recently, she injured her eye, called the vet out, more treating for a good 10 days. These horses are going to get the best of us. It really shouldn’t be this hard! I just want more than anything to have good safe horses our whole family can enjoy. All my life I have wanted to have horsesw that our kids can grow up on. I am not giving up yet, just very frustrated.

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