i have been so tense, thinking if teev is doing so good there, it must
be this place. But yesterday i saw gnats just swarming Nasi and
Trausti and neither of them have any itchy places at all, not one,
thank you Jesus! We told our farrier yesterday how well Teev was
doing at Karens and he said its like, some people have horses that
crib and never know it because they have electric wire and nothing to
crib on, then you send them to a new place and put them in a stall or
something and either thru boredom or because its just something they
do, they will start cribbing and gnawing. I know people think its
cause I dont have stalls here that I am aganist them, but its not. At
the boarding barn where we were many years I saw many horses stalled
that would be neurotic and then perfectly great when put out to
pasture. Which has nothing to do with Teev i am just rambling now :)
I had to stall Jas once for two weeks for a foot injury. After ten
days my vet said "let him out!" because he had started standing at the
door neurotically swaying to and fro all day long. Some horses just
go nuts in a stall. So I guess the point is.... drum roll... just
like humans, some horses can't be healthy and happy in certain
environments. Like Teev rubbing on all our scratchy little sandhill
scrub oaks in the pasture. Like my friend Charlene, she has a cribber
that only cribs when stalled. and then my friend sylvia's mare Bob,
if she cant go in her stall during a storm she sulks half the day.
and sylvia plans her life around, she has to make sure Bob's stall
door is open at all times :)
Janice
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even good horses have bad days sometimes.
