On Sat, Mar 29, 2008 at 2:52 PM, Skye and Sally ~Fire Island <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- Nancy Sturm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > In Southern Oregon, all the leases I know are "free" leases. > > > > > There is a very good welsh pony breeder here who only leases her > horses. She can not stand to sell a horse only to find out its care > is lacking years down the road. >
i wonder what would happen if there was an accident, or colic, and the horse died? what if they prescribed to a type of training method that she was opposed to, how does she screen out all that. I know you said they are all trained, but we were at a barn for years that leased out horses on a monthly basis for as long as they wanted but no less than a month, and very very often when the lease was over the horses had terrible habits, people would let them bite other horses on the trail, if they spooked they would sometimes inadvertently do things to reinforce fear instead of getting them over it, like kick or whip them and have a little rodeo forcing them to approach the scarey thing instead of giving them a minute to think about it etc. They would want to ride their own saddles and those often didnt fit. I was always glad when a nice person leased the horse for a long time. But the owner had about twenty rideable horses that she would lease out and felt good about it because they were boarded there and she could keep an eye on things. But sometimes harm was done without her knowing it... like her only walking horse, he was dead broke and ridden on a snaffle, she leased it to a 15 year old boy who started riding him in a "quick stop" quarterhorse barrel racing bit that has a hard knotted rope across the nose and a severe mouthpiece and he started bolting and rearing etc. of course. sigh. We were sitting in the swing out front one day and she said "I cant understand why Dee acts bad with that kid and nobody else" and I said well maybe its that quickstop bit... and she looked at me and her mouth fell open and she went oh. my. God. I had no idea... sigh Janice Janice -- even good horses have bad days sometimes.
