Post by lbanimals on May 20, 2007 23:49:29 GMT -5
Hello! I don't post on here much but Cat67 convined me to pop on and say hello and give a little update about my little princess Foxy that I got from the lot (via cber not safe though) January 06. I used to post quite a bit on the other boards but usually only lurk on here
Anyways, Princess Foxy was living down in the dirty and dusty and crowded and just all around crappy Southern California/Los Angeles area the last year and just moved with me to Eastern Tennessee. I laugh about it being rags to riches as she went from a scared skinny gross rescue horse when I got her and then here we are a year later and she got a cross country ride in an air-ride semi in her own private box stall. She went from being in a 16x36 dirt pipe stall in So Cal with only 15 minute arena turnout daily....to private turnout half the day and a brand new box stall with her own temperature controlled fan the other half the day.
(And yet I eat ramen noodles? Hmmmmmm)
She is getting to be so well traveled. Washington to California to Tennessee. She is temporarily retired as I am lacking decent health insurance and can't afford to break anything else falling off of her while I am job hunting....and so she is just spending her days eating and hanging out with her new horse buddies and being almost perfectly well behaved for the boarding people.
Anywho here are some pics of the Princess:
Back when I bought her:
In her stall in SoCal:
A recent SoCal picture:
Tennessee!:
(indoor digs)
(mmmmmmmgrass)
(She is still on limited grass turnout as she has been on dirt only for over a year and had already had her daily quota so I had her attached so she couldn't wander off too far.)
Considering the big rig that hauled her here was so big they had to pull over and block the (2-lane) highway and unload her at 1am in the pitch dark where I then had to walk her down the driveway, down a hill, IN THE DARK, with horses calling from the barn....she was very well behaved. Nothing like the horse we couldn't get off the trailer from washington who, when she did finally come off the trailer, almost ran us all over. The hauler, who normally hauls racehorses, said she was good as gold. He thought she was my show horse ;D
There is a little creek running through the pasture she is in above with a little bridge that is just behind a tree on the right side of the picture. Of course, Foxy walked across the bridge on the first try with no hesitation...because she is the BEST ;-)and apparently the grass was greener on the other side haha
Foxy was running and bucking and playing her first day at this place....I can only imagine what it was like to spend over a YEAR in dirt and tiny stalls in Southern California. She is in heaven now. The boarding lady laughed and said Foxy tries to sneak out the door to her stall when she refills her water.....she is definitely ready to be on full grass turnout like, YESTERDAY, according to Foxy.
So now SAFE has expanded their viewing even further. I've left the southern california contingent and wandered over to the eastern side of the US.
Anyways, Princess Foxy was living down in the dirty and dusty and crowded and just all around crappy Southern California/Los Angeles area the last year and just moved with me to Eastern Tennessee. I laugh about it being rags to riches as she went from a scared skinny gross rescue horse when I got her and then here we are a year later and she got a cross country ride in an air-ride semi in her own private box stall. She went from being in a 16x36 dirt pipe stall in So Cal with only 15 minute arena turnout daily....to private turnout half the day and a brand new box stall with her own temperature controlled fan the other half the day.
(And yet I eat ramen noodles? Hmmmmmm)
She is getting to be so well traveled. Washington to California to Tennessee. She is temporarily retired as I am lacking decent health insurance and can't afford to break anything else falling off of her while I am job hunting....and so she is just spending her days eating and hanging out with her new horse buddies and being almost perfectly well behaved for the boarding people.
Anywho here are some pics of the Princess:
Back when I bought her:
In her stall in SoCal:
A recent SoCal picture:
Tennessee!:
(indoor digs)
(mmmmmmmgrass)
(She is still on limited grass turnout as she has been on dirt only for over a year and had already had her daily quota so I had her attached so she couldn't wander off too far.)
Considering the big rig that hauled her here was so big they had to pull over and block the (2-lane) highway and unload her at 1am in the pitch dark where I then had to walk her down the driveway, down a hill, IN THE DARK, with horses calling from the barn....she was very well behaved. Nothing like the horse we couldn't get off the trailer from washington who, when she did finally come off the trailer, almost ran us all over. The hauler, who normally hauls racehorses, said she was good as gold. He thought she was my show horse ;D
There is a little creek running through the pasture she is in above with a little bridge that is just behind a tree on the right side of the picture. Of course, Foxy walked across the bridge on the first try with no hesitation...because she is the BEST ;-)
Foxy was running and bucking and playing her first day at this place....I can only imagine what it was like to spend over a YEAR in dirt and tiny stalls in Southern California. She is in heaven now. The boarding lady laughed and said Foxy tries to sneak out the door to her stall when she refills her water.....she is definitely ready to be on full grass turnout like, YESTERDAY, according to Foxy.
So now SAFE has expanded their viewing even further. I've left the southern california contingent and wandered over to the eastern side of the US.