The Unofficial Rules of Horse Grooming and Horse Ownership
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- It always takes longer than you think. This is usually because you have dreamed up a way to save time and it backfires. It’s also true when you try and take everything from the tack room to the cross ties and you turn around to see a trail of stuff you have dropped.
- You will always forget one critical thing at a horse show. Sometimes you will notice this in time to borrow or buy a new one, sometimes not.
- If you have plans after work to be at the barn, you will also have a reason to stay late at work.
- Green slime will quickly become your most common accessory, most likely not by your choice, but your horse’s choice instead.
- Your most challenging stains happen on your most important of show days.
- The day that you start saying “It hasn’t happened yet, so it probably won’t” is the day that you eat major crow.
- You will spent about 1% of your day actually grooming. The rest is a mixture of heavy lifting, hurrying, and waiting.
They laugh at us.
- Even though you are diligent about having a spare set of clothes in your car for emergencies, when you have an actual wardrobe malfunction your spare set will be in the laundry.
- At least once daily you will be clotheslined by the cross ties. Not because you horse moved, but because you reached for the cross tie to lift it and missed.
- You will always tear your protective rubber glove while cleaning a sheath. Before lunch.
- The minute you say “he hasn’t done THAT in a really long time”… is the same minute he executes THAT. In front of a crowd, for good measure.
- Your horse will always poop immediately after you have finished cleaning his stall. And you have shut the door.
- Your clipper blades will become the equivalent of two rusty spoons when you have only finished one side of your horse.
- Only the most beautiful and expensive pieces of tack and blankets will be destroyed by your horse.
- The skill level of your horse’s shenanigans and haute ecole tricks are directly proportional to the importance of the people around you. Trying to impress a future date? You will fall as your horse dances on your head.
- Your new farrier has been reassured numerous times that your horse *never* tosses a shoe. You must then call him about four hours later.
- When your horse doesn’t roll in the mud, doesn’t become a giant grass stain, and refuses to stand outside in the rain, you will have no witnesses.
What does your horse do to prove you wrong?
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