When I first acquired Simon, I made a deal with my husband that I would only have a horse if I carried insurance on it. We’re both hard core animal lovers and bleeding hearts, and we knew that if it came down to the choice of saving my horse or going into large amounts of debt… we’d probably go into large amounts of debt. That scared him, so I assured him that insurance was the answer. Now over a year…
I love my horse. I’m a relatively good horse mom these days, and I was a relatively good horse mom in the past… but there have been times where I had no business thinking about or even doing a lease to own on a horse. It’s hard to see when you’re in the middle of the situation and want a pony oh so badly, but really there are a lot of reasons not to buy a horse and a lot of people who shouldn’t…
Another crazy day at work, but that’s the norm lately. While browsing on Facebook on my commute in (only in heavy traffic or a red light of course!), this story on the world’s oldest horse caught my eye. Shayne, a 51 year old Irish Draught/Thoroughbred cross, was put to sleep after he couldn’t get up in late feb. I love this story. It’s not because the horse was really old (because he is), but that he was cared for well…