Post by cat67 on Jun 29, 2006 13:27:43 GMT -5
By popular request, I am bringing the tale of Sunline over here for your reading enjoyment.
Sunline was a CBER horse who showed up at the lot very thin and scraggly looking, but very friendly. It was posted that she wiggled her lips, which I am just a sucker for. Against all of my better instincts, I decided to adopt her.
Sunline in early April on the lot:
After 7 weeks of grass and relaxation at the wonderful Shellyr's in Sunnyside, WA it was time for Sunline to head to L.A. Imagine my surprise when Lori, the shipper, called me with an update - the good news was that my horse was eating, drinking, and traveling well. The bad news was that she was kind of spooky on the blind side.
insert sound of Cathy falling over with a thud
What blind side? I guess everybody was too busy looking at her lips to look at her eyes at the feedlot, because no one had noticed the cloudy, totally blind eye on the left side. I immediately started having flashbacks to the half-blind school horse of my youth, who reacted to scary things on his blind side by bolting around the arena so fast he'd bank off the walls.
Fortunately, after my initial panic, I found out that Sunline isn't actually very spooky at all. She has clearly been like this for a long time and as long as I let her know where I am, she's fine about the blind side. She is hard to mount and I suspect the surprise element of a person suddenly crawling up her back on the blind side may have something to do with that. She also got her first adjustment Friday - she was way out of whack - so I am hoping that helps.
Sunline likes to comment on things herself. After 18 years on this earth and most of it owned by complete morons, she has a lot of opinions which she shares with me. I am reposting some of her more memorable pictures and comments here.
Sunline's first 24 hours in Los Angeles:
Sunline: Good Lord, she's here again. You just saw me four hours ago. Needy much? Why are you flashing that thing in my face? Trying to make me blind in the other eye?
You left at 9 PM Friday night and you're here 9 PM Saturday morning? Do you have no social life at all? Oh yay, I've been sold to a complete loser.
If I count to ten, will you give me more grain? What do you mean, I have to start with a half scoop? Do you not see these ribs? Oh, maybe you're just not familiar with ribs since yours are covered with fat. Well, I'm the horse version of Nicole Richie in the weight department and unlike her, I am not trying to be that way. So let's keep it coming on the chow!
Sunline's Lesson of the Day: If your horse's withers look like this, YOU are a DUMBASS who doesn't know how to fit a saddle! I'm never going to get that hair back. Those morons. And then they dump me. Can't we send them to kill?
Would you stop screwing around taking pictures and feed me? What am I, a supermodel? Nobody wants to see this many pictures of me. You're like one of those parents who whips out 300 pictures of their baby that no one cares about but them.
These are from her "welcome to L.A." party in early June:
What do you mean, stop? I thought we tried to avoid the paparazzi in L.A.?
No way, you're not going to photograph my blind side! That's not in my contract!
I may have bald spots on my nose, but I don't look as ridiculous as you with your farmer tan!
Riding pictures (thanks to safehorses): Sunline has no comment on these, as she finds the idea that she should be ridden, and particularly the idea that she should have a bit in her mouth, completely ridiculous and not deserving of comment.
She does, however, have a lot to say about free longeing.
Here's what I think of this "free longeing" b.s. Who named that, anyway? If I were free to do as I chose, I sure as heck wouldn't be running around Cathy in a circle. I have better things to do. Like eat. I can't quite figure out why she doesn't have better things to do. Hello, living in Hollywood and working in entertainment? Shouldn't she be hanging out snorting coke with Paris Hilton or something?
And here she is with her personal hair stylist, Jen.
More to come. Last night silly Sunline was higher than a kite since there were jumping lessons going on and big honking warmbloods turned out running around and bucking, so we just free longed. Basically, I adopted a starving old mare and I now have a horse that looks AND acts like she just came off the track. Someone asked me if she was off the track recently (after seeing her lead me at the trot) and I said yeah, 15 years ago!
Amazing what actually feeding them will do, huh?
Sunline was a CBER horse who showed up at the lot very thin and scraggly looking, but very friendly. It was posted that she wiggled her lips, which I am just a sucker for. Against all of my better instincts, I decided to adopt her.
Sunline in early April on the lot:
After 7 weeks of grass and relaxation at the wonderful Shellyr's in Sunnyside, WA it was time for Sunline to head to L.A. Imagine my surprise when Lori, the shipper, called me with an update - the good news was that my horse was eating, drinking, and traveling well. The bad news was that she was kind of spooky on the blind side.
insert sound of Cathy falling over with a thud
What blind side? I guess everybody was too busy looking at her lips to look at her eyes at the feedlot, because no one had noticed the cloudy, totally blind eye on the left side. I immediately started having flashbacks to the half-blind school horse of my youth, who reacted to scary things on his blind side by bolting around the arena so fast he'd bank off the walls.
Fortunately, after my initial panic, I found out that Sunline isn't actually very spooky at all. She has clearly been like this for a long time and as long as I let her know where I am, she's fine about the blind side. She is hard to mount and I suspect the surprise element of a person suddenly crawling up her back on the blind side may have something to do with that. She also got her first adjustment Friday - she was way out of whack - so I am hoping that helps.
Sunline likes to comment on things herself. After 18 years on this earth and most of it owned by complete morons, she has a lot of opinions which she shares with me. I am reposting some of her more memorable pictures and comments here.
Sunline's first 24 hours in Los Angeles:
Sunline: Good Lord, she's here again. You just saw me four hours ago. Needy much? Why are you flashing that thing in my face? Trying to make me blind in the other eye?
You left at 9 PM Friday night and you're here 9 PM Saturday morning? Do you have no social life at all? Oh yay, I've been sold to a complete loser.
If I count to ten, will you give me more grain? What do you mean, I have to start with a half scoop? Do you not see these ribs? Oh, maybe you're just not familiar with ribs since yours are covered with fat. Well, I'm the horse version of Nicole Richie in the weight department and unlike her, I am not trying to be that way. So let's keep it coming on the chow!
Sunline's Lesson of the Day: If your horse's withers look like this, YOU are a DUMBASS who doesn't know how to fit a saddle! I'm never going to get that hair back. Those morons. And then they dump me. Can't we send them to kill?
Would you stop screwing around taking pictures and feed me? What am I, a supermodel? Nobody wants to see this many pictures of me. You're like one of those parents who whips out 300 pictures of their baby that no one cares about but them.
These are from her "welcome to L.A." party in early June:
What do you mean, stop? I thought we tried to avoid the paparazzi in L.A.?
No way, you're not going to photograph my blind side! That's not in my contract!
I may have bald spots on my nose, but I don't look as ridiculous as you with your farmer tan!
Riding pictures (thanks to safehorses): Sunline has no comment on these, as she finds the idea that she should be ridden, and particularly the idea that she should have a bit in her mouth, completely ridiculous and not deserving of comment.
She does, however, have a lot to say about free longeing.
Here's what I think of this "free longeing" b.s. Who named that, anyway? If I were free to do as I chose, I sure as heck wouldn't be running around Cathy in a circle. I have better things to do. Like eat. I can't quite figure out why she doesn't have better things to do. Hello, living in Hollywood and working in entertainment? Shouldn't she be hanging out snorting coke with Paris Hilton or something?
And here she is with her personal hair stylist, Jen.
More to come. Last night silly Sunline was higher than a kite since there were jumping lessons going on and big honking warmbloods turned out running around and bucking, so we just free longed. Basically, I adopted a starving old mare and I now have a horse that looks AND acts like she just came off the track. Someone asked me if she was off the track recently (after seeing her lead me at the trot) and I said yeah, 15 years ago!
Amazing what actually feeding them will do, huh?