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| Posted: Thu Mar 18th, 2010 03:47 am |
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whattarack Pasture Boss 
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Thinking of you and your friend [4]. Just wanted you to know.
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| Posted: Sat Mar 13th, 2010 02:12 pm |
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4Square G.O.G Community Member 
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Thanks everyone for your kind words of wisdom and support. Whatta you are so insightful. I found out last night that she is rehoming another of her horses too. She has someone else looking at her TWH this morning. I will meet up with her and another friend around noon today. It is a hundred mile trailer ride over there up some steep and winding roads. I'd been intimidated before about hauling over there due to the age of my rig, but now that I know I can get across the Sierras just fine, [God made me realize that when another friend's truck's electrical system was incompatible with my trailer and we ended up taking my truck after all to go get a mustang!], I am less worried about the trip. I was going to take Lumos, to give him some more travel experience, but my friends ride gaited, and since I am going to be hauling 200 miles today, well probably best to take a glide ride horse. So, it is going to be Rawhide, although he is the most massive horse I own LOL! Rawhide has not been on a trail ride since December and lately he has been playing like a colt. Spring is his time of year. I'm really okay now and over the shock of all the information. I know I would be doing the exact same thing if I were in her shoes and it is in fact something I've thought about before, that I would re-home critters too as I would want to know they are okay in case I was called home. One just cannot know with these sort of things. You hope for the best and prepare for the worst. [4]-oh and don't worry about the filly. I've got another friend lined up to take her who likes dealing with that kind of stuff if I decide it is something I don't want to deal with. I doubt it is anything more than I've dealt with before, but I'm not interested in getting hurt either. I will assess and take it from there.
____________________ GOG Certified Trainer http://www.foursquarehorse.com Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. I Co 13: 6 -7 |
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| Posted: Sat Mar 13th, 2010 12:38 pm |
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whattarack Pasture Boss
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[4] I'm reading this and thinking that God could not have chosen a better friend for this poor woman. You will be there for her when it matters most. Like Susan said, your eyes have been cleared and your heart open to her just in time. I also have to say something about you having the wisdom to know when you have done all you can reasonably do. Don't let your pride get yourself hurt with this bratty filly. I will pray that everything turns out the way we all hope. But if not, it still turned out how it should. I have to consider that the bratty filly is also a resource for your friend. It is likely that she is how she is now - the vehicle that brings you closer to your dear friend. Prayers and Hugs, Whatta
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| Posted: Fri Mar 12th, 2010 11:43 pm |
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liteshodwalkers G.O.G Community Member 
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[4] My thoughts and prayers are with you and your friend. While you are trying your best to be there for her, please know that we are here for you if/when you need us. God Bless bonnie
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| Posted: Thu Mar 11th, 2010 10:11 pm |
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fireandice G.O.G Community Member 
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4square: First, take care of yourself, your family and your own animals. If, after that, you have room to take on someone elses' unfortunate circumstances, by all means. I say this with recent experience of major tragedy, not just from a book or here-say! Please don't feel bad, just do what you reasonably can for your friend with regards to your current situation and be satisfied with that. You mustn't ever take onto your shoulders any extra burden in which you cannot reasonably execute, no matter what the situation. Be honest with yourself and you will never go awry. T.
____________________ My pony knows all my secrets. I braid my tears in his mane and whisper my dreams in his ears. |
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| Posted: Thu Mar 11th, 2010 08:15 pm |
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GypsySusan G.O.G Community Member 
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Tara, this just breaks my heart. How is that God can let us see so much junk so clearly but disguise the true needs of our "family"? God bless you that your eyes have been opened and that you care enough to do this for your friend. Get your tears out of your system and go with your head held high and bearing the confidence that your friend will come out the other side, well and strong and ready to take her little girl back. Prayers for your strength and courage and for your friend and her recovery. With Our Lord's Love, Susan
____________________ Susan www.gypsytrotters.com Phil 4:11-13, 19 Missouri Fox Trotters: To Ride One... Is to Own One. |
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| Posted: Thu Mar 11th, 2010 07:53 pm |
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4Square G.O.G Community Member
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Sometimes I think I am pretty dense. Around a month or so ago I picked up from a post on a chat list from a friend that lives a couple hours from here that she was undergoing chemotherapy. I had not even known she was ill. I e-mailed her privately about my concern for her, but it did not go much further than that. The other day she e-mailed me that she was looking to re-home her 2 year old KMSH. I really did not put much thought into my reply and said I would consider taking the filly if Lumos went to a new home. Her reply indicated tongue in cheek disappointment. She insinuated that the filly was taking advantage of her weakened condition and that she felt she was doing her no favors keeping her and allowing her to get away with being a naughty horse. Well, this got me to thinking again so I said I was interested and to tell me more. This is when she shared that when she asked me last year about my training fees that this filly was the horse she was going to send. She then shared that she has had multiple surgeries and chemo and will soon move on to radiation treatments. She said that she had a lot of plans for the filly, but now she was just doing what she needed to do to survive mentally and physically and the filly was too much for her. I e-mailed her back and offered to train the filly for cost of her food and get her respectful and send her back to my friend as it was the least I could offer her if that would allow her to keep the filly. Her response was that she just needed the filly to go ASAP and that she had made up her mind and it was just what she had to do. She said the breeder would take her back and she was also considering surrendering her to a rescue. The filly has taken to rearing and being very disrespectful when led. I went back through my e-mails from when she got the filly last year and how excited she was about this young horse. That is when it really hit me how ill my friend must be that she is giving up the filly even though I was willing to train her for free. This friend has been wanting me to trailer over to her house and ride for the past year and I've never made it out there. In our recent conversation she suggested if I were to come out and look at her filly to think about bringing a horse up and if she was in a good spot between chemo treatments she could finally show me the trails she has wanted me to see. This last statement really got to me. This person has been quietly fighting her battle and not calling attention to herself. I e-mailed her back and said I could come up this Saturday. Her response was that she anticipated she would feel well enough and to bring a horse. Please say some prayers for my friend and for me to be a resource for her. Now that I know more of the extent of what she is going through I'm going to try to be there for her. I wish she had shared sooner, but maybe it was just too much. I've been crying empathetic tears for her and I know that is not what she needs when I go up there. I ended up taking the day off from work as my emotions are all over the map and I need to make preparations to be gone for a couple of days. You see, tomorrow I am driving to another friend's house to pick up the donkey Al-ass whom I traded to her for Foxy. That friend is going through tough times and is needing to give up animals. She had wanted me to take a horse too, but I had said "no". I felt bad about refusing the horse, but now I know why it was put on my heart to refuse. I will take my ill friend's filly home on Saturday. It is the least I can do. She's still telling me I don't have to take the filly. But you know, when I go back and read those old e-mails about how excited she was when she got that filly and then to contrast with how things are now, I understand how much has changed in her life's outlook. I will train the recalcitrant bratty filly and turn her loose in the pasture to grow up. Maybe once my friend is all healed up she will want her back. That is what I'm praying for. Thanks for reading this far. I know it was long. I just needed to share and I know my friend needs the prayers. [4]
____________________ GOG Certified Trainer http://www.foursquarehorse.com Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. I Co 13: 6 -7 |
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