A Janice Public Service Announcement: Its really terrible if someone sells a horse with problems and represents it as perfectly happy and sound with no probs. But then sometimes I think innocent novice sorta buyers are taken in when someone says a horse has had some terrible problems and they are all completely cured.
What prompts me to write this--- my friends whose horses were snakebit and died are horse shopping and I am this very moment trying to save them but they are so guillible I dont know if I can help. I am in a race against time to try and find them good horses before they succomb to their grief and yearning for a new horse and purchase a horse someone I know is trying to sell them. She has a registered AQHA mare that I know someone who bought it and returned it because if it ever broke faster than a canter it had a hip problem and couldnt go. So my friends have an autistic daughter and her horse is the only one that survived the snake attack and this girl, like most autistics have something they just unbelievably excell in, is am amazing rider and loves to go fast so they are a sorta galloping type family. But anyway i told them this horse has hip probs, they asked and the seller said "oh she did but it went away". of course it went away, she has been standing in a roundpen with four other horses for 2 years and hasnt even gotten up to a dogwalk for more than thirty feet in all that time. I am just posting this as a sorta buyer beware for the gullible. if you know any gullible buyers please help them. it is a buyers market now,. buyers get to pick and choose from wonderful horses. So please browse carefully. For one thing, a horse that has problems that went away is gonna be stressed by moving to a new home, no matter if its an improvement, a wonderful home etc. Its just stressful on them to move! and then probs often return. Also, gaited horses--- they can gait wonderfully because they have sore feet. did you know that?? Walking horse breeders/sellers founder horses on purpose so it will appear that they are wonderfully gaited barefoot. there are ways to tell. If you are horse shopping take someone with you or show a video to someone who really knows horses. This is just my horse shopping PSA. Janice -- yipie tie yie yo
