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marionpack
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basbob
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 Posted - 02 Nov 2010 : 5:28:51 PM
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| What a lovely story! So so happy for you both - can't wait for photos! |
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MinHe
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England
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Posted - 02 Nov 2010 : 6:47:38 PM
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Glad to hear everything has turned out OK and he is safely with you!
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Fee
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Posted - 02 Nov 2010 : 8:06:27 PM
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So delighted to hear he's home and well. Well done you 
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zooscat
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United Kingdom
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Posted - 02 Nov 2010 : 9:20:07 PM
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Well - he got through the night OK - finally wee'd and poo'd and lay down and rolled and then lay down and went to sleep!
Has eaten four small feeds today, had a "strip wash" - a warm flannel wrung out and soaked in anti-parasitic horse shampoo and rubbed gently all over his face as he has loads of little scabs all over his cheeks and jaw. Washed tail in ditto as very scabby, then rinsed and rubbed dry! Now seems available to enjoy being fussed over and has started that dreamy " more - to the left - down a bit - aaah - just there!" expression when his withers and back are scratched! Getting OK re front feet being picked up and picked out - not too sure with backs - had a cow kick and got growled at!
Greatly daring, took him for a walk out on headcollar and lunge line, round the parkland. Pretty stupid really - large, racehorse type Arab, completely unknown quantity, on a headcollar in 50acres of beautiful psture land! (I did have a hard hat and gloves and boots on, though  ) Any way - we both survived - he did grow to 18hh when he saw hounds being excercised in the distance, and lengthened his already very long stride! However, he is quite good at responding to verbal cues linked with body/lead line cues, so was gracious enough to slow down when asked and stop and back up at gates etc. I took him in the sand school and asked him to walk round me in a circle which he did and progressed to walking round on a 20metre circle, responding very well to cues from the lunge line and hand signals. He had a little trot (his idea - not mine!)and slowed to walk at request. All very nerve-racking!We were out about a total of 20mins in walk and it felt like all afternoon!
Going out tomorrow in a small paddock next to some quiet geldings for a few hours in the morning to see how he copes with that.
He is lovely to fuss over and play with, but I keep expecting him to tank off/rear etc etc. when I've got him pottering around outside. He's sooo tall and refined against Fatty Crabbet Bomb, whose repertoire of Dreadful Behaviour is very well known as I've seen (almost?) all of it over the last 11 years! I sang lots of hymns to him going round the park - my ruse for calming myself and Ryazan when I first had him and he was like riding a box of fireworks with slow burning fuses!
Oh well "just get on with it and stop fussing" as mother used to say! |
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Totalrookie
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N. Ireland
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Posted - 02 Nov 2010 : 9:33:19 PM
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| Fab news! So glad he's settled in really well and you're clearly delighted with him! What an epic saga with a happy endding! |
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zooscat
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United Kingdom
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Posted - 02 Nov 2010 : 10:03:46 PM
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Total Rookie - thankyou for your kind offers of help and the "inside information" which were most enlightening when I was trying to unravel the "meaning" of various bits of "The Saga"!
I've PM'd you as I would be grateful if you could try and track down what happened in the 5years since he left the care of "the lady" - according to info in his passport, and ended up with The Previous Owner.
Info in PM,
Thanks so much
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Callisto
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Posted - 02 Nov 2010 : 11:07:20 PM
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That made me smile Zooscat - the bit about the hymns, I used to sing them to my fatty Crabbet bomb when he was a 4 year old with major issues about being sat on (something dreadful happened to him while he was being broken, seller didn't bother to tell me  sold to me as unbroken), he's 19 now and sounds very like Ry - noisy and demanding. So pleased your new lad is settling in so well, I know what you mean tho' - Lily has to duck her head to look out of her (old trad sussex) stable, she feels like a giantess next to Harley  . Enjoy your new lad, and hugs to the chunky one |
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debs
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United Kingdom
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Posted - 03 Nov 2010 : 07:16:20 AM
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Bless him , sounds as if he is in 7th heaven!
Enjoy! Oh, and pictures please... |
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mogwai
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England
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Posted - 03 Nov 2010 : 07:38:20 AM
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Fantastic! What a smashing end to a pretty miserable story.
Loving your fatty crabbet bomb too, hope his nose isn't too out of joint, lol
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kim gasper
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England
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Posted - 03 Nov 2010 : 09:19:44 AM
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Thanks for the phonecall to let me know that A arrived safe & well on Monday evening Zoocat. Have told his Mummy that her son is now ALSO in safe & loving hands  . She stopped munching her haynet, turned & looked at me & then came over for a hug. I'm not the soppy type usually.....but I really would love for them to meet again, now they are BOTH in loving homes. Oh! & bye the way (as if you need a reminder) CAN WE HAVE PICS PLEASE!!! Kim & Kazzie |
Many years experience owning & riding my own horses. Fell in love with Arabians at 11 years old when given a ride on "Trevallion", a 3/4 bred who was a livery where I worked as a stablehand. I have never forgotten that ride, Thank You Yvonne- should you ever read this!I now have 2 beautiful purebreds.
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zooscat
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United Kingdom
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Posted - 03 Nov 2010 : 3:31:24 PM
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Friend of mine who takes lovely pics of Arabs and racehorses etc etc is coming to view The Prince (aka Aragon) on Thursday - with her camera, so should have some lovely photos by the w/e. Then I will be looking for help to post them, given that I am a technophobe! Kathleen very kindly helped last time, with pics of Fatty Crabbet Bomb - who would be enraged if he knew he was so disresptfully referred to! He was a real thug yesterday when I rode him - perhaps he knows there is Another!
Seriously - he is very thin and the pics may be distressing. It's distressing enough to look at in the flesh, but at least we have the consolation of gentle grooming, huge beds, warm rugs and four tiny feeds a day, plus a little bit of turnout today. |
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Kazzy
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Posted - 03 Nov 2010 : 4:08:58 PM
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So glad he has arrived safe and sound the rest of it willcome will time and love and being well looked after.
Well done for what you are doing
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Vera
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Posted - 03 Nov 2010 : 6:26:37 PM
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Do take some pictures, even if you decide not to post them here. I regret not taking pictures of TC when he first arrived with me. I have them from about a month after but even then the change from a month to 6 months was phenomenal. You sort of forget how bad they were until you see the pics again.
Maybe share a couple of head shots until you're happy to show the rest of him |
    
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honey
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debs
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United Kingdom
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Posted - 03 Nov 2010 : 8:51:21 PM
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2nd what Vera says, do take some for you to look back at.... I would be more than happy to see a head shot of your boy! Whatever feels right for you.
So pleased you have him and him you! |
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zooscat
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United Kingdom
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Posted - 05 Nov 2010 : 05:57:14 AM
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My friend Jeannie - who takes lovely pics of all our horses (no - I'm not the Queen - all the horses on the yard she and I keep our respective little spoilt brats on, Ryazan, and Hen, The Norty Welshie) came up to Aragon's yard and we spent ages with him and she took lots of pics. She's going to send them to me today, and with the very kind help of Rui, they should be on soon. Aragon continues to be a real sweety; he's turned out for half a day at the moment and is very calm in the process. Demonstrated his lovely floating canter round the field when turned out yesterday! Comes trotting up to the gate when we go to get him! I'm treating him like an unbroken youngster at the moment, doing all those fun things like plastic bags scrunched up and rubbed (VERY gently and ditto Slowly) over him, looking in scary dark barns, walking up to Very Scary Flapping Tarpaulins etc - so far the donkey has presented the biggest challenge, but he was making a sound like a badly hung gate in the wind at the time! No panic from A, just stopped. eyes on stalks and ears forward to forelock, and then stretched his neck to double its' length and very gently sniffed the Offending Article! OA responded by silence and turning his bottom on us both! A and I tiptoe'd away!
Another little play in the school - again, polite and eager to learn in another sedate 5mins on the lunge. Will post pics asap - he is beginning to get a lovely shine on his coat, now he's clean! |
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kathleen
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angelarab
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Posted - 05 Nov 2010 : 08:25:11 AM
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| I am so happy for you both,got goosebumps over your description of him being ethereal, what a star he is and what an amazing person you are |
 "Until one has loved an animal, part of their soul remains unawakened."
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saddlebred
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United Kingdom
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Posted - 05 Nov 2010 : 09:06:06 AM
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He sounds wonderful. Cant wait to see pics and so glad he has found you...... although you sound more grateful to have found him from your wonderful description
I am sure he will repay your kindness and perseverence in acquiring him a thousand fold.
Eagerly awaiting next installment of your saga.
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Callisto
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Posted - 05 Nov 2010 : 09:12:21 AM
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Can't wait to see the photos, and so very pleased for both of you that things have gone so well so far  |
Zahkira (GR Amaretto x Taffetta)
Linda
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zooscat
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Posted - 05 Nov 2010 : 3:28:36 PM
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Pics in the ether because of my friend's elec supply having disappeared down a drain hole (the joys of living in the country) and she cant post them via computer to me. The lovely Rui has offered to help me post them, painlessly, via his email link - so - they are on the way - just suspended in cyberspace!
Thanks for all your kind support - I'm really grateful to all The Powers For Good that allowed me to find him and actually buy him and get him over to me; just having kittens (foals??) that I wont be able to afford to keep two horses long term, cos I wont be able to afford it long term, etc etc and that he is Much Too Good For Me!!
He should be in some very grand yard/family who are "doing" lots of grand things - shows, Pony Club events and dressage and Endurance and that sort of thing. I'm only a little old granny! (Actually, I'm not little - 5'9" and extremely fit, but 65 and concious that Time is Running Out!!) Never mind - it all works out in the end, one day at a time and all the other platitudes... |
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kate b
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Posted - 05 Nov 2010 : 5:08:45 PM
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Wow what a very handsome fellow. With all the TLC he is receiving I am sure he will be looking tip top in no time at all.
Kate
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Callisto
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Posted - 05 Nov 2010 : 6:01:32 PM
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| Oh he is very nice - a definite diamond in the rough I love his head. No wonder you are so thrilled with him. I don't suppose he cares much about living in a grand yard and doing loads of stuff - I'm sure he is more than happy just to be cherished |
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ARAGON HAS ARRIVED!!
