12-23-2010, 10:48 AM
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Join Date: Jan 2009
Location: Fairbanks, Alaska
Posts: 6,507
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Originally Posted by Feyd
Interesting... I've looked at your book descriptions but when you mentioned the rosettes and a show I assumed you also had horses yourself.
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I had planned to when I moved to Alaska, and I bought a two-acre parcel before I became disabled. It's just as well that I didn't get horses--having to part with them after I became disabled would have been more painful than I'd care to contemplate.
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Originally Posted by Feyd
We have two. One is retired (24+ years old) and lives fat and sassy on a local farm. The other is a young 16-hand blanketed Appaloosa show horse in training that my wife treats like a favored son.
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I hope the breeders are doing something about their eye problems in their later years--whenever I read about old blind horses at equine sanctuaries, they always seem to be Appaloosas. The third eyelid seems to cause them trouble as they get older. |